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  • Consider each distro like a house of kung-fu.

    We are all hitting dummies, we are all practicing falls, drops, and stances, but we have different names, cultures, methods and ideas of getting those same goals done.

    So what’s the benefit of having programs each installed in separate locations that are wildly different?

    Installing an Appimage or flatpak almost entirely leaves that program inside your Home folder, meaning, if you were to reinstall your base system, even a different distro… within reason, those apps would still continue to function, all of their libraries and connections made within a folder that didn’t change.

    Linux is about aversion to risk. On Windows, you’d backup and restore your entire system. Linux brings into question what you consider “your system”. Some distributions can be entirely rebuilt from the ground up via a text file’s instructions and nothing else.

    My main desktop can be back up and running from a complete SSD failure in 20 minutes, a combination of backups and a saved Archlinux installation config for that system.







  • I feel like stability has a different definition for some of us Linux users.

    Stability to me as a Linux user is a non-issue. I have so many backup and snapshot solutions to a point that any problem isn’t even a threat. I don’t consider what if’s because I can just walk around anything, even if the entire boot drive corrupts.

    Also, what do you mean by stable? The OS? The entire system under heavy graphical load?

    Some more, some less as far as Linux goes, but if we’re comparing Windows to a peer like… KDE?

    Yeah, they’re about just as buggy.

    Does Linux have an issue in that the bugginess is almost directly tied to the experience level of the end user? …Yeah, but at that level, it just means no problem is impassable, you just don’t know what you’re doing. 😬