• dinckel@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t like anything Debian based. The package manager always sits at the core of the experience, and it’s just a horrible experience. With a bit of manual intervention, you can upgrade an Arch install from 10 years ago. I’ve never managed to update any Debian based distribution from the previous release. That aside, a lot of what I do relies on newest packages, and having something that’s 5 years out of date just isn’t for me

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        1 year ago

        Honestly, given the ways shit broke, you’d think that. One of the cases was on a practically fresh install with a few flatpaks, and it was updated exactly as the distro specified it

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      1 year ago

      Fwiw, I’ve had great results with upgrading Debian derivatives. A machine in my closet has been upgraded from version 8 -> 12 without any major issue. Usually, upgrade problems come from custom or third party software in my experience.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve had the opposite experience. Updating my apt sources.list and running dist-upgrade always worked for me on Debian (though most of the time I just run unstable which is rolling) but on Arch it seems like if I don’t upgrade regularly sometimes I’ll get hit with signature key errors because the key database is outdated and then have to go run some other command to update the keys before a pacman -Syu will work. I love both distros, but there’s no better way to make your users not give a shit about security than making said security interrupt their workflow. Most of the time I just disable the key check in pacman.conf so that the damn thing will upgrade successfully.

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      1 year ago

      Zorin OS (based off Ubuntu) recently released a wizard to upgrade the OS between major releases. I’ve not tried it yet.