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[–] Ozzy@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago (11 children)

For me it was the opposite. I had Ubuntu installed and wanted to do a upgrade to the next release, took around 2 hours "settings things up" where I just said fuck it and force closed it.

[–] KrankyKong@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago (10 children)

My experience with big release distros was like that. I rarely had an upgrade complete without issue. Rolling release has been good to me so far. Granted, this was 10 years ago and things gave probably gotten better since.

[–] s38b35M5@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Which distro with rolling release do you prefer?

[–] KrankyKong@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

I used Manjaro in 2015 for about a year before switching to Arch and sticking with that for a long time. Recently I tried EndeavorOS for a few months, then I switched to Void just to try it.

I can solidly recommend either Arch or Void.

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