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A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.
The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.
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I guess I'm leaving ubuntu then. Too bad, it's been my daily driver for nearly 16 years now.
What's the next best alternative? I just want a stable and secure distro that won't get abandoned in six months because the dev team consists of a single basement dweller and his cat.
If you want stable, you can't do better than Debian. If you want a good balance of stable and up-to-date, Fedora is good, and the immutable variants are interesting. Debian stable doesn't get as out of date as it used to, either.
It is worth adding that using Debian stable comes with the price of being several versions behind on most software packages. It rarely matters, but it’s a pain in the ass for the times that it does.
You can get some newer stuff (a newer kernel for one) from the (unofficial) repository on backports.debian.org
Oh that is quite useful. Thanks for the resource. If I ever find myself back on Debian, I will keep this in mind. Unfortunately, it doesn't carry any updated packages for the issues I was experiencing.