I use Fedora 38, it’s stable, things just work, and the software is up-to-date.

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    Debian Bookworm. On my laptop and all my servers.

    I’m a seasoned professional Linux sysadmin, so getting a distro installed has never been a problem for me (thanks to my first proper distro being Gentoo).

    In the end, it’s the stability and “knowing what to expect”, that always makes me come back to Debian.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know how you deal with non rolling releases on your machines you actually use for work. By the end of the lifecycle all the tools are ancient

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        ChojinDSL It depends on your use case. In my case I mostly manage bare metal servers running certain services or docker.

        For servers I don’t want rolling releases. That just means stuff is going to break on a regular basis. In my opinion, Arch Linux is the worst offender here. I don’t know if it’s gotten better since last I used it. But with Arch Linux the problem was, that you had to keep up with the updates. If you forgot to update some machine in a while, it could happen that you missed some update that changed some critical things, and everything else already moved on, and the only way to fix it was to hunt down the intermediate package version and try to install that manually, or just wipe and reinstall.

        As far as “ancient” tools is concerned, it depends on what those tools are. Bugfix and security patches is what I’m most interested in on a server. Just because there is a newer version of software out there with some new features, doesn’t mean that I need those features, or that they’re relevant.

        For the cases where I need something newer, there’s docker, flatpak and backports repos, (if not third party repos for certain tools).

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          For servers I don’t want rolling releases

          Yeah I wasn’t talking about servers.