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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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looking for half-stable Linux distro (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Luffy879@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hello, i am currently looking for a Linux distribution with these criteria:

-it should be more or less stable, comparable to Ubuntu with or without LTS // -it should not be related to IBM to any way (so no fedora/redhat) // -it should not feature snaps (no Ubuntu or KDE neon) // -KDE plasma should be installable manually (best case even installed by default) // -no DIY Distros //

I've been thinking about using an immutable distro, but if anyone can recommend something to me, I'd be very grateful //

Edit: I'm sorry for the bad formatting, for some reason it doesn't register spaces

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[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Gotcha. The difficulty in upgrading OS versions was my major gripe. Not that this is unique to Mint I'm guessing.

Second was unavailability of newer versions (or any versions) of some software. At the time, one example was FreeCAD being a couple years behind the current version.

And in fact this second issue made the first issue worse. I could've run an LTS longer. But from day one certain packages were pretty far behind and those packages didn't get major version upgrades until I switched to the next Mint release.

Or else I would have to point to another repo. So at one point I had a bunch of different repos. Then one might go down and break the update and upgrade process.

And if not that approach I would have to find some other way to install but I still want to keep it updated semi automatically which isn't possible in some cases.

Idk. I may switch to a rolling release distro at some point. But for now Fedora runs newer versions of the kernel and presumably(?) other software, or at least it hasn't been an issue, thus far.