Subj : Re: NetBSD 10
To   : Nightfox
From : tenser
Date : Thu Apr 04 2024 03:38 pm

On 03 Apr 2024 at 03:54p, Nightfox pondered and said...
 
 Ni>   Re: Re: NetBSD 10
 Ni>   By: tenser to niter3 on Thu Apr 04 2024 09:08 am
 Ni> 
 Ni>  ni>> What makes it feel like a toy?
 Ni> 
 Ni>  te> It's hard to articulate, as it's more a sense of "feel" than anything
 Ni>  te> else.  But I often find that random things either don't work, or don'
 Ni>  te> work as expected, when I put together a Linux instance.
 Ni> 
 Ni> What do you mean by "instance"?

Basically, an installation of some distro on a
single machine, either hardware or virtual.

 Ni> Years ago, I would sometimes try out different Linux distributions, and
 Ni> one thing I remember seeing with a few distributions is that one version
 Ni> would install smoothly and things would work out of the box on my PC,
 Ni> but then I'd try to install the next version and some of the things that
 Ni> were working in the previous version (such as the GUI auto-detection of
 Ni> hardware or networking) would not work in the newer version, for
 Ni> whatever reason.  I haven't experienced that in quite a while though. 
 Ni> I've been running Linux Mint on a secondary PC for about 8 or 9 years
 Ni> now, and it has been very stable, and upgrades have worked without a
 Ni> problem.

Yup, I've experienced things like that, as well.  Usually
when I spin up Linux somewhere I run arch, if I can, but
some types of machines that's a pain (things like the RockPi
or whatever, then it's back to Armbian).

I put Mint on my daughter's NUC, and it's been pleasantly
stable for her.

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