Entry 0069

Braindump commencing...

I'll never be satisfied with one distro forever. The gods are all out of mercy for my soul. They're extremely annoyed. They'll send me to a special place in FOSS hell for malcontents.

At this point, I have to settle with being unsatisfied with the most unsatisfying thing about a distro. Right now I'm on CachyOS, and I don't have the energy to install and setup something else. The thing that I'm not satisfied with is the frequent software and kernel updates and required reboots. I'm even using the linux-cachyos-lts kernel, but, for some reason, both linux-cachyos and linux-cachyos-lts are updated at the same time. Maybe I misunderstand what using an LTS kernel means. I thought it would be more stable and require less frequent updates. But maybe the stability only applies to the designated point release, rather than security patches and bug fixes. So naturally as more bugs and such are found there are going to be relatively frequent updates that increase the stability of the LTS point release. Whereas linux-cachyos always follows the latest kernel.

Unfortunately for me, I'm not like a pre-emptive kernel. I hate having to task-switch when a new kernel update is available that requires me to stop what I'm doing and reboot. Of course I don't have to reboot immediately, but my goblin brain will not rest easy until I do.

Two distros that have less frequent updates are Debian stable and Ubuntu LTS. For stuff like Neovim and the Rust binaries I use daily, I can install them with Homebrew. I've heard Ubuntu has gotten pretty enshittified lately. I haven't used it on the desktop since 2019 or so. If I go that route then I could install the Kubuntu edition. There's also KDE Neon, so that I can get a rock-solid stable base system with cutting-edge KDE software. KDE Neon is the de facto standard KDE distro. Their FAQ mentions that they do not recommend installing programs from the Ubuntu base repos as they could be up to two years old, but instead to opt for Snaps or Flatpaks. I would of course choose Flatpaks over Snaps, but for stuff like Neovim or Rust binaries I can use Homebrew.

It's almost midnight now, but I would say there is a greater than 70% chance that I install KDE Neon tomorrow.