I wonder what’s on the ‘unknown’
I wonder what’s on the ‘unknown’
It usually has something to do with programming. Again, most cases, the versions in the packages included in your garden variety stable distros should cover most use cases.
However, once in a while one would encounter the need of using the cutting edge features on certain compiler or interpreter. Rust comes to mind. I know Python introduced some features that could drastically alter workflow (e.g. switch statement). NodeJS is another one known to be lagging behind from time to time.
In other cases, hardware support might be taken to consideration, especially for newer machines. However, with Mint including the optional newer kernel, it shouldn’t be a problem.
Because for most use cases, Mint works flawlessly. It changes little from time to time. It has all the drivers to get started with a wide range of common hardware. It has all the codecs to play common media formats.
Of course if the package update is too slow, it’s not for you, but then unlike you, most people don’t need the latest and greatest. They just need something that works from the get-go with predictable behavior.
He’s been stuck in a school-like purgatory for seven decades?
Goddamn I was thinking of the same song!
These days, AFAIK network boot is done thru initramfs. It loads rootfs in most cases I’ve seen tho.
What machine do you have for this?
Fair. It’d still be nice to have upgradeable RAM, tho.
Is it better than PinePhone?
THANK YOU
They gotta survive somehow and people would complain regardless.
Never had issues due to ‘outdated’ packages myself, but then again, I wasn’t into the latest & greatest.
I mean, you’re always free to choose something else instead of bitching.
Tried the Tumbleweed. It’s anything but stable.
Less reason to subscribe then!
The less money on them, the better!
With swapable RAM modules next, I hope
From what I read on the wiki, they’re mostly testing the mainline kernel. I wonder how the device support would be with vendor downstream kernel.
I happen to have a Fairphone 4. It’s listed as supported, but not with all its features.
Anyone here tried PostmarketOS on Fairphone 4?
I guess if AI can destroy humanity, then humanity should never have existed in the first place.
Yeah, that’s what I’ve been doing, but most people would be stuck with whatever got force-fed to them because they don’t know any better.
touché