Maybe what I’m looking for is the holy grail, but what do you guys suggest as a Distro with a good balance between stability and up-to-date packages?

  • Raphael@lemmy.world
    223·
    1 year ago

    The holy grail, stable and up-to-date, it exists, it’s called Debian with Flatpaks.

    Install Debian. Avoid doing any changes to your package selection, try to get things from flatpaks.

    • RegalPotoo@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 year ago

      This is my preferred way off doing things, but trying to glue VSCode + Android Studio + the Flutter SDK + Docker + … together via Flatpack was an exercise in pain and sadness last time I tried it.

      Getting all my normal boring desktop apps via Flatpack is awesome, but for a developer it just doesn’t seem practical right now

      • priapus@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 year ago

        If you’re a developer and want a stable distro you’ll need a way to have up to date dev environments. I would use Nix or containers.

    • guyman@lemmy.world
      24·
      1 year ago

      Problem with debian is it’s stable in the sense of unchanging, not necessarily a lack of bugs.

      He’s saying he wants up to date packages and stability, which seems to mean he was current software without bugs. That’s not debian stable.