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You might like snapshot based solutions like Snapper
I once tried Spiral Linux, light fork of Sid with bundled Snapper stack. Switched to a giant-userbase distro, Fedora, mostly because Plasma was bad with 5k screens. Are there mainstream distros with easy rollback?
When you su to root, the whole path or a different path is loaded. One has to type su and then su - in order to reach all the regular bin and abin directories. It is flagged, but Debian team won't fix. As a user it is not great.
Secondly, Debian now ships with Raspberrypifirmware package, even on intel installs. When you enable backports to install a newer kernel, this fails due to this package bring there . It ks a major hassle to fix, and without Chatgpt/competitors it is very easy to get lost troubleshooting this.
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14 different schemes multiplied by some acting slightly different in every version. Sure you can pin it, but that fixes only their internal back and forth, is only possible via the kernel cmdline and there is no guarantee for how long the old versions will stay available, as they deprecated much more invasive things in the past (e.g., cgroupv1) I'd expect them to also drop older versions here, breaking ones naming ag…
This worked brilliantly in Debian for more than a decade, had almost zero downside, and just did what asked. I went through 3+ dist-upgrades, for the first time in my life, without a NIC change. It was deprecated for this nonsense in systemd. Yes, there were edge cases in the Debian scheme. Yet it did work with VMs (as most VMs kept the same MAC in config files), and it was easy to maintain if you wanted 'fresh'. Jus…
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Not only that: Dovecot 2.4 will also remove the functionalities of dsync, replicator and director [1]. This is frustrating and a big loss as these enabled e.g. very simple and reliable two-node (active-active) redundant setups, which will not be possible anymore with 2.4. I use it for years to achieve HA for personal mail servers and will now have to look for alternatives -- until then will stick with Debian Bookworm…
You might be interested in https://codeberg.org/errror/dovecot-replication .
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This is exactly why I use Debian when I install Linux. I want something that will keep chugging along, yet may not have the most cutting edge software. I can take my time with the system, and know that it is solid. If I need newer software that isn't in their package repository, I understand that I have the ability to compile what I need, or at least make an active decision to modify my system to run what I want. Bas…
Exactly what I expect from the latest Debian. Boring and not working. Too many hacks by people who cannot work with upstream and have no idea what they are doing. But they are having their own good idea of a "proper" layout and package management.
I haven't run into a scenario where the desktop has caused me issues, only with Windows-only software that I sometimes require. What software has caused you issues that doesn't play nicely with Debian? What hacks are in place to mitigate upstream issues? I'm honestly curious, and if you don't use Debian, what distribution do you use regularly?
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Exactly what I expect from the latest Debian. Boring and not working. Too many hacks by people who cannot work with upstream and have no idea what they are doing. But they are having their own good idea of a "proper" layout and package management.
Exactly where is Debian "not working"?
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That seems like a bug with those applications which make use of the filesystem instead of performing in-memory operations or using named pipes.
"bug", more of a chosen design considering hardware constraints when things were designed.
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The page about upgrading [0] does have this warning: Back up your data Performing a release upgrade is never without risk. The upgrade may fail, leaving the system in a non-functioning state. USERS SHOULD BACKUP ALL DATA before attempting a release upgrade. DebianStability contains more information on these steps. [0] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade
Yet Windows will let you roll back an upgrade with a single click within 10 days. Of course anyone can restore from backups. It's a pain and it's time consuming. My post serves more as a warning to those who may develop buyer's remorse.
TIL there are 14 subtly different naming schemes for network interfaces[1]. "predictable" my ass. [1] https://manpages.debian.org/testing/systemd/systemd.net-nami...
The "stable" interface naming scheme is a scam. And I have proof. Test upgraded a VM today, from bookworm to trixie. And guess what. Everything worked, except after reboot the network interface was unconfigured? Guess what. The name changed...