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Distribution: Debian Sid AMD64, Raspbian Wheezy, various VMs
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what's the meaning?
For a single-user desktop run by somebody with a little Linux experience Sid, to my mind, is a better experience -- newer NVIDIA graphics drivers, for example, and things are included in Sid a long time before they get into Stable (at least I think 0AD took ages to migrate, as an example).
For a single-user desktop run by somebody with a little Linux experience Sid, to my mind, is a better experience -- newer NVIDIA graphics drivers, for example, and things are included in Sid a long time before they get into Stable (at least I think 0AD took ages to migrate, as an example).
nothing is working on SID. Don't you spend your time to fix around most of the box with SID?
Distribution: Debian Sid AMD64, Raspbian Wheezy, various VMs
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nothing is working on SID. Don't you spend your time to fix around most of the box with SID?
not really -- I'll admit both my Sid machines had issues that meant I couldn't really use it for a few weeks but what is available is worth it to me. Take the newbie-favourite Kali, for example, I'd be willing to bet that most of the stuff available in Kali is in Sid but may not have migrated to Stable for a long time.
Don't get me wrong, Sid can leave one banging one's head on the table but its modernity is also very nice.
nothing is working on SID. Don't you spend your time to fix around most of the box with SID?
Some recent update broke Sid on my laptop, and I'm having big issues with permissions (probably polkit). Otherwise I can't think of any major issues I have had with Sid in my years running it.
There is nothing to do, it is not easy to be fixed visibly. Stretch/Sid has such a terrible bug! It will never be fixed. This issue is there since at least 1.5 year.
I booted here with options root=/dev/sdb1 rw
Last edited by patrick295767; 01-15-2017 at 05:18 AM.
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