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Windows 10 in my ssd
Windows 7 sp1 in my hdd where I play eroges

Windows 10

On my main desktop and laptop I use Fedora. I have an HTPC, a couple of servers and a couple of VMs that are still running Ubuntu because I've been too lazy to actually purge and switch them, for years at this point, to either Sid, Tumbleweed or maybe Arch (for the HTPC, not the servers). But it's hard to justify "fixing" something that isn't broken, even though I've grown to not like Canonical so much. Also between all the memes it's hard to tell how much of an ordeal using Arch for any extended period of time actually is.

I've also got an old desktop running Win7 for eroges and a Win 10 machine for regular games only, but those are looked down upon and a source of shame.

how much of an ordeal using Arch for any extended period of time actually is.

As a desktop it is brilliant - have not needed to reinstall anything major since 2012-13 . My xmonad broke some 2-3 times but nothing that some pacman-fu does not solve after half an hour of work.

For a server it is a nightmare. You need to update it often but there are no long term support kernel versions - so you do need to fully restart the machine every couple of days.

As a desktop it is brilliant - have not needed to reinstall anything major since 2012-13 . My xmonad broke some 2-3 times but nothing that some pacman-fu does not solve after half an hour of work.

For a server it is a nightmare. You need to update it often but there are no long term support kernel versions - so you do need to fully restart the machine every couple of days.

Sounds like it'd be perfect for my HTPC then. That's reassuring to hear, thanks.

As a desktop it is brilliant - have not needed to reinstall anything major since 2012-13 . My xmonad broke some 2-3 times but nothing that some pacman-fu does not solve after half an hour of work.

For a server it is a nightmare. You need to update it often but there are no long term support kernel versions - so you do need to fully restart the machine every couple of days.

I find arch quite annoying. I'm sure I could get used to it in time, but for one thing pacman does not make searching anywhere near as easy as apt-cache/apt-file can. And I forget what exactly we talked about before, but wasn't it about using the 'immutable' flag to stop pacman from replacing a config file?
For another, it's pretty limited in terms of CPU architectures, and it makes it a bit trickier to set up a cross-compilation toolchain/environment.
Also, the prevalence AUR's tend to make people fall into some bad habits/depend on them too much (I think). It's pretty much exactly why I hated PPA's in Ubuntu, even if I hate PPA's quite a bit more.

I've thought about using xmonad, but FVWM's been pretty good to me so I'm still using that for the foreseeable future. I'm actually using FVWM 3 (built from git sources) right now, which isn't technically released yet but has made several improvements (including finally proper xrandr support).

Despite all of this, I don't really dislike arch or anything, I just don't know it well enough and might be missing a couple of design rationales. I think your ability to keep it running for around 7-8 years shows it's as capable as Debian Sid (rolling release) of "not falling to pieces."

All of this said, my debian desktop hasn't been rebooted for 46 days so far (it lost power 46 days ago).

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Aug 6 2020, 05:42

windows 10

win 10

Debian, been using it both at work and at home for a long time, and I'm probably not gonna switch any time soon.
Although, recently I've switched my (formerly windows) desktop over to it as well, instead of just leaving it running on my home server/raspberry pi's

Debian, been using it both at work and at home for a long time, and I'm probably not gonna switch any time soon.
Although, recently I've switched my (formerly windows) desktop over to it as well, instead of just leaving it running on my home server/raspberry pi's

Nice, I don't actually see other (non-Ubuntu) Debian users very often, all things considered.

Stable? Or one of the other channels?

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Oct 7 2020, 09:15

Win10 home 64bit

Win 10 and win 7

debian sid on this machine and i do also have a win7 machine on the other monitor port for proprietary crap but most of the time its just collecting uptime

Nice, I don't actually see other (non-Ubuntu) Debian users very often, all things considered.

Stable? Or one of the other channels?

I'm using Testing on my desktop and Stable on everything else.

Debian 10 "Buster" (MATE desktop), clean install. Decided against upgrade from Stretch because I actually need a new HDD.

Great release. Firefox ESR is probably my minor (teeny tiny) complain (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

Windows 10 is really monopolized the market isn't it...

Windows 10 is really monopolized the market isn't it...

no

windows 10 on PC
android 11 on cell phone
ubuntu on vps

This post has been edited by haeint: Oct 30 2020, 14:03

windows 10 64bit professional

Windows 10
爱Windows 7