2y ago

Looking for a distro to hop to

Wanted to know if there's such a thing as Debian based distro but make it Rolling release, is that something already in existence or will I have to just tinker a lot within Debian?

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There's Siduction which is basically Debian Sid (unstable) with a lot of the work done for you.
- chiming in to say i'm currently running siduction on my laptop - it's pretty good, i like it
I think you want Debian Unstable (Sid) or smth
I thought Debian Testing was basically rolling? Most of the packages at least Btw: Tumbleweed has been rock solid for me over years.
I’m not well versed with Linux but I saw a lot of people saying open SUSE tumbleweed was pretty good. I’m gonna try this today for my new low power Plex/home bridge machine.
- This is an excellent suggestion, but be mindful that suse is an RPM-based distribution and upgrades will necessarily install slower than other formats. If that's not a problem (just run updates via cron) then it's fine.
  
  It will probably be fine in practice (I hear openSUSE is relatively stable), but I wouldn't recommend upgrading software automatically - you might end up with a broken system and no idea what caused it.
I don't know about a Debian-based rolling release. Have you thought about going to Arch. Pacman is a pretty good package management system.
- Pacman is not a good package manager; if something goes wrong during the install it can leave your system in an unstable state. A better package manager would be one that has transactional updates.
@mateowoetam It is Debian Sid. You can use Debian 12 Installer. After installing, you can change your repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list to sid, and running apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. I suppose you would prefer installing minimal packages before upgrading to Sid.
- Nix isn't rolling release
  
  The unstable version is but NixOS can still be ruled out as it's not debian-based
  
  Unstable is and from what I've heard, nixpkgs even is one of the fastest repos with updating packages (also the largest). But I still wouldn't recommend it for OP.
Fedora is rolling relase and stable. I choose fedora for some time, and after more than 4 years, never come back to deb based distro...
It's fun under EL
- Fedora is most definitely not a rolling release. (Or stable in my experience)
  
  Fedora is stable enough (never have any crash with Fedora for 5 years, as long as I remember on Thinkpad), and it's bleeding edge, most of software that's just published, will be available in most fedora repo less than 1 day, as I remember. If it's not rolling release, then what is it? Or the term of rolling release is different?
  
  I'd second this. Fedora is great, don't get me wrong, but it's not rolling or stable.
  I think stable was referring to not crashing here.

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