• confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 hours ago

    My frustration with Raspberry Pi OS is that the packages available were constantly out of date. Some were 2 to 3 years out of date.

    I eventually started using Alpine linux on my Pi boards and have been happy since then. Now I can use the latest Docker and Podman packages without manually adding new repositories.

    If I didn’t prefer Alpine’s minimal approach, I would have probably gone with Debian because of it’s history in stability.

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      2 hours ago

      I believe you may have found your ideal OS. Debian will always lag behind ever so often. And that’s okay. We all use the Pi’s for different reasons.

      • confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        18 minutes ago

        I can appreciate that about Debian. Common tools and stability can be both convinient and reliable. Learning linux is already overwhelming with choices.

        Even though I use Alpine for all my Pi boards and laptop, I keep a live usb partition of Linux Mint Debian Edition as my emergency backup. It just works.