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on Linux, is there a way to switch off "Tamagotchi Mode"? specifically i mean the thing where you set up linux exactly how you want, and every 2 weeks you run package updates and some obscure part of your system which you didn't even know existed now no longer works the way you set it up, and you have to spend 90 minutes fixing it, and it's always a different thing, and this happens every 2 weeks, forever. how do you switch that off? (ideally in a way where it won't switch back on after 2 weeks)
@jk yes there is, it is called "debian stable".
@lhengstmengel i run mx which is based on debian stable, and i get the tamagotchi experience every month rather than every week. it's an improvement but it still doesn't really fix the problem. like recently my desktop icons started displaying incorrectly and i can't get them to go back to how they were. apparently this was due to an xfce update. i didn't notice any positive results of the update, just the icons breaking. next month it'll be something else. at least it's not every 2 weeks
@jk with the real (not "based on") debian stable you can be sure that everything stays like it was when you installed it. No new features, no new major versions, only security updates and some bug fixes. MX offers many newer versions, like xfce 4.20. Debian stable is still at 4.18.
One other thing to consider too is looking at the repos it’s pulling from. Regardless of the Linux OS if you remove any “testing” repos, then your system may be less likely to have breakage.
(I also have been running MX since 2019, but I think it looks good so I haven’t customized much.)
Even Debian Unstable is not very tamagotchi. Stuff does break sometimes, but not every week.
@argv_minus_one @jk who said anything about debian unstable?