Mastodawn

By age 40, a Linux user stops trying to install Arch on a toaster just to prove they can. They finally settle on Debian Stable or Mint because they realize they no longer have the "mental bandwidth" to spend 6 hours configuring stuff or fix broken systems just to check their email or watch Netflix. 😊

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Daniel Quinn Dec 20

@nixCraft I really don't get this joke. Arch isn't Gentoo. You install it, and it just works. You never need to do a system upgrade 'cause it's on a rolling release, and its packages are always modern with the features you want.

Meanwhile Debian is perpetually antiquated, forcing creative hacks to get recent versions, and requires a tricky system upgrade every year or so just to remain relevant.

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Snep

@danielquinn @nixCraft

> You never need to do a system upgrade

More like, there's constant system upgrades, that's how it was when I was an active Arch user. With every single-package-update or installation came a whole slew of other package upgrades.

And btw, the tricky system upgrade on Debian is changing the codename (e.g. from bookworm to trixie) in the sources.list files and doing apt update + apt dist-upgrade. For those living on the edge, Debian Sid works a lot more closely to Arch :)