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    The installation process of different Linux distributions (feddit.de)
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    [–] Agility0971@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Personally I've had more issues tweaking Debian to just work as needed then Arch

    [–] zarenki@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

    I never had problems with Debian stable, especially on headless server. But it's not especially well-suited for brand new desktop hardware; even Ubuntu LTS and RHEL focus more on hardware enablement backports than Debian.

    I've had a worse experience with Debian testing breaking my system with updates than Arch. Adding to that the freeze period (2012's was the worst, lasting 11 months) makes testing feel like the worst of both worlds between rolling and standard release distros.

    [–] idefix@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

    It's even worse with Fedora in my experience. Always some weird default, strange issue, missing packages that take ages to fix until you decide it's not the right distribution for you. And you go with Debian, Arch, Manjaro, Mint, etc...

    [–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Agreed. Try to setup newer nvidia drivers, a newer kernel and it is the furthest from stable as any distro ever was.

    [–] Shareni@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

    Using an unstable kernel and drivers on Debian is the crackhead type of tweaking

    [–] KISSmyOS@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago

    Debian is the only distro in my recent memory that crashed into an unbootable state right after a default installation.
    Manual Arch installation is tedious and unnecessary if you've done it once, and the automated archinstall fails too often. Other than that, I've had literally zero issues with it.