What exactly is the point of rolling release? My pc (well, the cpu) is 15 years old, I dont need bleeding edge updates. Or is it for security ?

  • Feyd@programming.dev
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    1 day ago
    1. I like having the upstream versions of software instead of it being patched by package maintainers.
    2. I like having up to date software. It means that issue trackers for software I use are relevant
    3. Doing distro upgrades when they end support never works gracefully and i have to completely reinstall. I’d rather just use a rolling release which in practice works and is supported indefinitely
    4. I do like bleeding edge updates. For wine for instance
    • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
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      21 hours ago

      Yeah, Point 1 here is exactly why I moved from Ubuntu to Arch ~10 years ago.

      I was trying to get something working and found that the bug / feature had been fixed ~1 year earlier, but that version wasn’t in the repos… I couldn’t move forwards.

      With Arch, all is well. And, I’m either reporting new bugs and helping to get things fixed, or I’m updating the wiki with any changes I notice.