As mentioned before, Fedora is very stable and has very regular updates. I also like Ubuntu a lot and since I also don't like Unity I use the Ubuntu flavour with my favourite DE (After all there's Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Lubuntu etc. and after install you can actually install the other flavours too).
I started on Debian Testing (actually all Debian flavours, along long time ago) but moved to Ubuntu because I like to on the one hand be relatively bleeding edge but on the other hand have 'stable' periods and I think a half year release cycle hits that spot very nicely also I felt like the ubuntu guys made more of an effort to give me a good experience as a whole whereas Debian at the time felt much more like a collection of software which didn't necessarily fit together well. These things may very well have changed by now but I still think that Ubuntu with it 'being pinned' for a half a year is preferable over a rolling release like Debian/Testing though of course it all depends on your needs and wants. I just don't get the "I don't like Unity so Ubuntu is not an option" that's saying "I don't like [DE] and therefore [distro] is not an option" even though I don't think there is any distro that prevents you from installing other DEs... Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו 2015-12-05 10:51 GMT+02:00 Shlomi Fish <shlo...@gmail.com>: > Thanks for the tip, Steve! > > On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> > wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 13:32:20 +0200 >> Shlomi Fish <shlo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> > Sorry for being unclear, but by "unusable state" I meant that one can >> > no longer upgrade the system it using "pacman -Syu" (or whatever the >> > command is) because it gives errors. The system itself works fine but >> > will run outdated software applications (and often ones with known >> > security vulnerabilities). >> >> I've had this happen several times with Manjaro (and therefore I assume >> it would happen with Arch also). All the cases of which I'm aware are >> solveable like this: >> >> pacman -Syu --ignore badpkgname >> >> The preceding allows the rest of your upgrade to go through. Report the >> problem, and in the near future the bad program will be fixed and you >> can upgrade the formerly bad package. >> >> It's really unfortunate that, without --ignore, pacman sees fit to go >> through the entire the entire upgrade, perhaps a half hour, and then >> tell you there's one bad package and upgrade nothing. Fortunately, in >> the time I spent with Manjaro, I saw only two or three cases in which a >> package refused to install and took the whole pacman -Syu with it. >> >> SteveT >> >> Steve Litt >> November 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques >> of the Successful Technologist >> http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------ > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > > Chuck Norris helps the gods that help themselves. > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
