Best of both worlds:
- install boring stable distro
- use Homebrew to install bleeding edge stuff, separately from the base system.
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I think you meant to say nix lol.
Is Homebrew any good on Linux tho?
Homebrew is supported on Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora.
I use it on my recent Linux Mint install. Mint has pretty old packages or enormously bloated flatpacks, that come with limitations.
neovim only came in an ancient version, that doesn't support lazyvim. Nicotine+ came as ancient from the Mint packages or as a 4 GB monster via flatpack.
I used Homebrew and everything installed quickly in current versions and worked like a breeze.
The great thing about Homebrew is that removing it is as easy as rm -r /home/linuxbrew
Nix is great as well of course and very powerful. Can be a bit of a bitch to write all the config files though.
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Use Guix/Nix, have your cake and eat it
Gentoo */* ~amd64 isn't unstable. If I have to use 5 year old packages with bugs long fixed, then I am getting unstable
I've been very happy with Endeavour / Arch on my desktop for the past year until last week. Issues when waking up the desktop, Plasma panels disappearing, resolution forced to the minimum, etc. I rolled back the kernel to the LTS version and it fixed a few things. I can't complain because it's not my main computer but it's not ideal.
LTS is all fun and games and stability until someone releases an update with features that I really really want right now. This is why I keep coming back to KDE neon.
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NixOS unstable... I like to live dangerously, safely.
I've been using Arch (btw) for a few months now and have been really enjoying it. I am scared that something is going to break though. I have Timeshift and BorgBase backups but I would rather not deal with that tbh. I haven't tried Debian yet but I think I might make it my next distro. However, it's going to be really hard to give up the AUR and Arch wiki.
Consider btrfs for your next install then. Won't boot? Fine! Just select your last automatic snapshot in grub.
aur can mostly be replaced by flatpak and the arch wiki generally works in every distro
"I'm on the bleeding edge of Linux! I get the most advanced features the distro allows! Yeah, it may periodically brick my home system from time to time, but its worth it when I can get..."
reorganizing the symlink layout of the NVIDIA firmware
"... which I literally cannot live without".