cley_faye

Well, now you have :)

Yep. I understand the news-worthiness of dismantling the US, but why the fuck do we care for a "meltdown".

Only those that can't weather huge price hikes, lack of public service, and defend against supposed federal agent just robing them out.

Maybe I can get arrested when I become homeless and die in jail instead of on the street.

Do it quick, lest you end up in a foreign death gulag to top it all.

Yeah, I'm sure China's trembling at the mere idea.

Why are we talking about them again?

I only buy boxes of 2x2. I suppose the only way is to get all four out at the same time.

When I switched to Ubuntu, they just had more up to date packages, and with two releases a year (sort of), stayed up to date with other software, which is a good thing for a system I actually use. From then on, I just stayed on it, because I don't reinstall my OS until something's broken. I've been moving the same one for a decade now.

If I had to install a new desktop system I'll probably go with mint, for the same reason : more frequent software update.

Note that this is all for desktop (and some specialized systems). Servers are all running debian, because stability is preferable and frequent software change is not what I want in these environments.

If made correctly (which is hilariously easy), it's a clean install and uninstall process, support some level of potential conflict regarding files that are shared with other packages/commands, support dependencies out of the box, and with minimal work can be made easy to update for the user (even automatically updates, depending on the user's choices) by having an (again, very easy to setup for a dev) repository. With the added value of authenticity checks before updating.

All this in a standardized way that requires no tinkering, compatibility stuff, etc, because all these checks are built-in.

Note that some of this probably applies to other system package management solutions, it's not exclusive to .deb.

Ubuntu support online (I mean, the size of the community) can be useful. And besides the snap and "ubuntu advantage" thing, they're mostly a more up to date vanilla Debian, which is extremely convenient because, Debian.

It's obviously good for people used to Debian, but it's also great for other, because of the regular updates. But in fairness with your point I've been thinking about moving to mint since it's basically a de-snapped ubuntu.

A rusty bucket riddled with holes and the stick part of a shovel is better than snap for running software.

It was explicitly said to not use this outside of VSCode, so, I'm not sure where the surprise comes from.