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    [–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    If you're using Debian stable, hopefully you fully expect and want not to get major software updates until long after they release, in exchange for a more predictable system.

    I'm excited for Plasma 6 but I'm very willing to wait for it, and stick to 5.27 as a daily driver for the next year.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    They might include it. Or they might not. If they don't have time to test it, they just won't, and you may wind up with 5.27 for longer than just the next year if you're waiting for debian's stable repos.

    debian's neovim is on version 0.7.2 (even in trixie/sid, you have to go to experimental to get to 0.9.5, which is the current). If there are any bugfixes between 0.7.2 and 0.9.5 that aren't security backported... too bad. You aren't getting it any time soon, because it's not landing in Trixie, and it's not guaranteed to land in whatever is after that either.

    Debian's "stable" refers to "predictable" like you said. Which includes bugs being predictable. Not resolved. Predictable. And if you have a bug that crashes your system, that bug will stay there unless it's a "security" issue. Predictable crashing. NOT the "doesn't crash" that people seem to think "stable" means.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I've never had a bug in Debian stable. Not a single one.

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

    I did. Something about the combination of Debian, KDE, Wayland and nvidia drivers made the system unstable.
    After googling the issue for a bit, the consensus was that that just isn't a good combination.
    So I switched distros and now everything works.

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    In about 2 years. By that time it will actually be stable and pretty much bug free. For me Debian is the only distro that provides a reliable experience.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Until then, enjoy 5.27.x with unfixed bugs for 2 years ;D

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

    Well I don't actually use KDE. I just am stating what I've noticed in the past. KDE doesn't have stability as a priority so using old versions is really the only way to not have bugs.

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

    KDE hasnt had, but 5.27 is pretty good.

    Though, I know of and have reported a ton of bugs "Resolved in Plasma 6", where backports would make no sense as these architectural changes where so big.

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Can confirm, after 8 years of distro hopping i stopped at Debian, Debian is for home servers and tired ass mothafuckers

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

    I tried Debian for my very first Linux install very long ago. Its installer formatted my windows partition despite me explicitly telling it not to.

    Never touched it after. Not out of resentment, but because I just don't need it for anything.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I mean, the point of Debian is stability. If I'm running Debian then I'm not even gonna want to try and install the thing until after I've seen 100 people use it. I don't think they'll be looking for it in repos.

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

    Plasma 6 is the most tested release EVER. There where at least 5 ways to test it, there was KDE Neon and a dedicated atomic Fedora image for it.

    There are many bugs only fixed in Plasma 6.

    So it is debateable

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

    Both of you misunderstand the point of Debian's stability.
    When I run Debian Stable I want to be sure nothing changes about how the system works, until I have time to plan an upgrade.
    So KDE6 could have literally zero bugs and it still wouldn't make sense to push it into a current Debian release, because it has new features.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I think backwards compatibility is the keyword here. That would be the biggest requirement to allow updates.

    New bugs, and maybe for example new hardening policies needed, could be another one. Maybe a future firefox implements feature x and you want to / have to disable that.

    But at the same time Firefox is the best example of upstream doing the versioning. They know when to freeze features and likely backport every security critical issue. Thats not the case with many other packages debian ships, where it just doesnt ship updates whatsoever.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Haha those stupid idiots are big dumb for not knowing about the incredibly niche thing.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Debian repos moving slowly is niche?

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Debian sid user here. If it appears now or in two weeks in the repo does not change anything for me as I don't depend on the changes for my workflows. For Debian Stable I actually demand them to come much later, in a mostly bugfree version. What's the rush when it probably needs more field-testing?

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    For Debian Stable, it should actually never come, cause what's the point of KDE on a server?

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Lol. My gaming PC runs Debian Bookworm and KDE.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Lol. My server runs Arch Testing.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Nice! How many 9s you got on that?

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    ... How many zeros preceed that 9?

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    ~pls~ ~no~ ~bully~ ~;_;~

    Edit: Actually my site is up about 99.9% of the time, and that's good enough cause all it currently serves is this pic:

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    Least furry Arch user

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Oh how quickly people forgot about Plasma 4. When a Debian stable is released with Plasma 6 then I'll know it's ready for me. I don't rush into major KDE releases anymore.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    4 is two major versions back. For this statement to be fair, you should have evaluated it against 5. (Spoiler alert: that release was super smooth)

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    I don't care about Plasma, I want Cosmic

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

    It will get to Fedora eventually

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    There is an atomic image ready ,it still uses GDM (display managers are more complex to implement than you think) and I have the feeling it cant be the latest stuff, because it feels very incomplete.

    Things like a populated dock etc are all missing, its upstream COSMIC.

    Also there is no SELinux support yet, you can run it in permissive mode and should get all the errors needed to create one.

    Join the Matrix Chat to discuss Fedora Cosmic.

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

    Wasn't it just released or something? It'll be there on the next release. Maybe....

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    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Are you licensing your comments??

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

    You can license anything you want. Question is whether you can afford to assert it when it comes time to.

    Β©solidgrue@lemmyworld, 2024

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Yes he does and it drives me crazy.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    At least its not the BSD license. Screw those guys, amirite?

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

    Almost as bad as the MIT license.

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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I mean I get it might be because of being afraid of it being used to train LLMs. But I doubt that it would work, either because they won't be used regardless or because of how federation works, i.e. literally it'd be more efficient if all of the known network instances' operators somehow agreed to include/Lemmy, kbin and all of the microblogging platforms that can federate with Lemmy shipped a robots.txt that blocks known AI crawlers. Probably what would be more useful would be something that e.g. Akkoma and some other AP implementers offer, i.e. message autodeletion.

    Also terrible if you want to retain any anonymity even if more people did it, because of stylometry.

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