• INeedMana@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Wow. That name brought some memories

    Looking at wiki

    a rolling release
    Initial release November 22, 2013

    So it seems it’s rather mature distro and since it’s rolling release, it should be rather up-to-date, without reinstalling every half a year

    I’m not sure where to browse the official package list, but loooking at pkgs.org:

    • Lx 5.0 looks outdated. Wine version on it is 8.20 (current stable release is 9.22)
    • Rolling, on the other hand, might be too on the edge. It has wine 10, which is release-candidate, not stable yet

    But maybe I’m missing something in how the distro manages versions

    The rolling one is definitely worth trying, IMO

      • INeedMana@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I’ve moved to rolling release distros long time ago, I don’t know what is the current situation. But back then reinstalling was the less painful way of updating point release distros. Because the old one was version locked for so much time, one had to spend a lot of time and effort to migrate to a newer release, figure out what replaces what etc

        • ticho@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          I must be doing something wrong with my 15 years old Debian installation, then.

          • INeedMana@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            What do you do when you update the release point? You don’t suddenly discover that alsa is a thing of the past and half of the system migrated to pulse now? That a distro package for light http or socks or some other niche is discontinued and now you have to migrate to another software? And you can’t approach those one at a time, as in a new installation or rolling release, either you migrate or you don’t?
            Those were my observations