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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?

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[–] Sleep4288@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] CrescentMadeJr@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They did mention stable, which is not something Manjaro can claim in my experience. They tend to hold back packages in the name of stability but it causes problems when using the AUR sometimes.

[–] IDe@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Manjaro is not stable because it ensures no breaking updates are pushed to users" is such a weird statement to make.

[–] CrescentMadeJr@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

That would be a weird statement to make. But that’s not really what I said. At all.

[–] CjkOvPDwQW@lemmy.pt 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure all they do is.simple syncing their repos with arch Linux in a interval of 2 weeks