• lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org
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      14 hours ago

      I mean they could have just picked Debian 12… I doubt Debian will make retroactive slop updates to older versions of the distro. At least that’s what I’m doing on the systems I administer: set up a custom package that conflicts with base-files >= 13 and with some already-known slopified version numbers (thanks to Open Slopware) to keep things a bit more under control.

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          8 hours ago

          Thanks to how Debian versions packages, numero 2 is solved with a package solution like mine (liberal use of >> for package version comparison), so that you can’t install the updates that come with slopification.

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      14 hours ago

      I mean if you want something that’s stable and you really don’t have to think about upgrading similar to Debian there’s always NixOS. wee bit of a learning curve but once you have it configured you can pretty much forget about it. can even run stuff without installing it if you wanted.

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        12 hours ago

        As a programmer, I can always run stuff without installing ;) As a user, however, I wish to have 3D acceleration capable graphics drivers for the occasional game.