LogFAQs > #983184620

Rika_Furude posted...

Is that much different from say, Debian? Which also has old packages on purpose since they are more thoroughly tested/proven

Only degree, as Debian stables packages are even more ancient. Debian sucks for a desktop computer too, and for the same reasons. Desktop computers are not 24/7 servers where a minute of lost uptime costs thousands of dollars at minimum.

I would run Debian as a server (in fact I do already, as Proxmox is basically Debian but built to be a hypervisor), but on a server, Im running all my applications in Docker containers and virtual machines, so the ancient packages dont cause any problems. I wouldnt even go near anything Debian-based period aside from PikaOS for desktop computing.

When your packages are so fucking old I cant do what I need to do with my computer, or theyre old enough they make my performance significantly worse, I dont give a fuck how stable it is.

Ill give you a perfect example of this. At work Im forced to develop on a RHEL 8 VM, because to these dumbasses, The servers run RHEL 8, so you should develop on RHEL 8. Developing on a server OS is excruciatingly painful, and the version of Flatpak on it is literally so old, I cant even get GNOMEs Extension Manager extension from Flathub because Flathub doesnt support it. If they let me develop on Fedora, Id have none of these problems and my deliverables would deploy 100% identically to the way they do now.