• foggy@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Well the solution here is to just use the superior distro, naturally.

    This post will surely upset nobody.

    • xeekei@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      You’re right! If a deb file exists then surely it’s in the AUR. ABS will repackage it seamlessly for you and then install it directly with Pacman.

    • Neko the gamer@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      11 months ago

      is there a way to make it work like a rolling release of sorts? i’d want to use debian, but i don’t want to stay with old packages and wait 2 years for an update

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        11 months ago

        You could use debian testing. It’s a somewhat “rolling-release” model. You will get more up to date packages with more stability too.

        You could also use unstable, but I wouldn’t recommend it personally.

        Edit: if you really need the most up to date version of some packages, you can pin them to use the unstable repo. This would be a pretty reasonable solution.

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        You could just go with Debian unstable. I rarely ran into issues while running it in a rolling release style.

        Debian testing might also work for you. But it will have a freeze window before each release.