Looks like I'll be distrohopping again!

genie, 4 months ago

Fedora + Nix package manager and never look back!

JATtho, 4 months ago

So it is btrfs snapshot time again and making it a bootable backup before pacman -Syu?

I have had only single time I remember when the Arch upgrade truly fucked up the system: libreadline.so was broken so bash didn’t work. :D

I always have a second bootable system in case the main system is unable to boot… So I can at least troubleshoot the main system.

hellfire103, 4 months ago

I have multiple devices, but I just use my trusty KNOPPIX LiveCD to unlock the disk and move everything onto an external hard drive before either troubleshooting via chroot or just doing a clean install.

trackcharlie, 4 months ago

I’ve had great results with EndeavourOS

bjoern_tantau, 4 months ago

That’s why God invented OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for all your stable rolling release needs.

hellfire103, 4 months ago

Yeah, either openSUSE or Gentoo will probably fix my issues good and proper.

Heavybell, 4 months ago

I use Gentoo. Most of my fstab entries are by partuuid, which works for me.

bjoern_tantau, 4 months ago

To be frank I went away from Gentoo for much the same reason. And the constant compilation. I only used it once after that for a small project where I needed to minimise what actually lands in the OS.

But all that was years ago.

callyral, 4 months ago

what about void linux

hellfire103, 4 months ago

Despite its popularity, I’ve never had much luck with Void. However, I could try it again. 17th time’s the charm!

callyral, 4 months ago

what did you have trouble with?

hellfire103, 4 months ago

Just the little things, really. App compatibility, xbps not having too many packages, issues with Musl, GRUB not loading on the LiveUSB, desktop/WM selection, and also I don’t like the way Runit works. I could make it work if I needed to, but overall it just seems like too much effort.

LainOfTheWired, 4 months ago

Void user here. If you’re having trouble with musl then just use the glibc base image. As they offer both C implementations.

hellfire103, 4 months ago

The Musl issues were a while ago. The other issues were experienced on the glibc version.

Void is a distribution I keep trying, but I believe I’ll be either sticking with the Arch family or switching to Gentoo, openSUSE, or NixOS.

MrBubbles96, 4 months ago

As an Arch User who keeps hearing about OpenSUSE being a more stable rolling release…mind going into it a bit more? I’m happy on my system, mind, but idk, could be I’m missing out on something big for not making the jump. If nothing else, I’ll know my options