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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

VanillaOS is pretty much what you're asking for. The only real downside right now is that Orchid probably won't have KDE support out of the gate

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If you like Plasma or one of the other supported desktops, I suggest trying Siduction for this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Gentoo, obviously.

I use it since it works. But it also has up to date packages. Number of times I tried moving away from it and it is just not possible.

I use Mint on side-desktop (one with graphic card I use for gaming and deep learning) and while it is easy to use it also has old software, python is stuck on 3.7 or 3.8 so it is becoming unusable even.

Will gentoo give you some problems? Probably, but those are always solvable and you will spend less time on other stuff.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

I recommend using Manjaro KDE.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Manjaro OS is stable and gives upto date packages seems this should meet your requirements.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Manjaro's delayed package system can actually make things less stable if you use AUR. I'd recommend EndeavourOS for that experience, it's very similar to Manjaro but in my experience hasn't broken as much

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

Devuan testing branch.

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