11th December 2017, 4:50
Oh deary me, i just read that thread over in the Netrunner forum. The sense of melancholy & desolation wrt bleak future options, given the Maui demise, is palpable. As i have no desire or intention to use Netrunner, coz of my own research, there's no point in me joining the Netrunner forum. However if i might be so cheeky as to address poor Dieter, who is of course both there & here...
If you feel that you simply MUST stay within the Ubuntu/Debian ecosystem, then maybe your options are limited as you suspect. But as per other posts of mine, if you were willing to branch out to different ecosystems, i assure you that you would enjoy a really excellent rolling P5 experience with openSUSE Tumbleweed [but not Leap, which has the same frozen paradigm as Debian Stable] & Manjaro KDE. However as rocky & i have also noted, trying out one [or both, like i did] of these new-to-you ecosystems does not come without a cost to you. There IS unambiguously a learning curve needed. There IS a different management paradigm you need to get comfortable with, wrt ongoing maintenance/updates. But it's a curve that you CAN survive, & thrive thereafter. You've been using Linux much much longer then me, & i know i am a Linux-numpty, yet even a clod like me managed to have a great time with both TW & now Manjaro.
BTW, rocky's advice [in the next post] re VirtualBox & Neon is of course excellent, but naturally you can use VMs also to decide if you like / want to seriously consider any other new-to-you distro too. I make very heavy use of VB VMs for detailed testing of multiple candidate distros... i never choose to actually replace my on-SSD OS until/unless i have first heavily played with that candidate in a VM. Also as rocky said, those same VMs remain invaluable even once you might have migrated your installed-on-disk OS, because you can test-drive each future update safely there before then proceeding with the update "for real". Similarly i like to test individual new-to-me programs in my relevant VM before i install it in my real OS.
Good luck, best wishes.
Quote:so, after the dead of maui, the best distro ever, i got several options, if I want a real plasma/kde-distro:
change to neon, but that is no real distro
change to netrunner 17.10 but here i will every few days destroy my installation, because I will not be able to handle this fucking crazy testing-repitory-thing
change to netrunner 17.06 which is pretty save but i will not get an plasma update which does not make any sense
change to whatever (suse?)
Since about fourteen years I have been using now kubuntu/netrunner/maui and now again netrunner. And never have been so deeply disappointed since.
Why are you doing this? Why?
If you feel that you simply MUST stay within the Ubuntu/Debian ecosystem, then maybe your options are limited as you suspect. But as per other posts of mine, if you were willing to branch out to different ecosystems, i assure you that you would enjoy a really excellent rolling P5 experience with openSUSE Tumbleweed [but not Leap, which has the same frozen paradigm as Debian Stable] & Manjaro KDE. However as rocky & i have also noted, trying out one [or both, like i did] of these new-to-you ecosystems does not come without a cost to you. There IS unambiguously a learning curve needed. There IS a different management paradigm you need to get comfortable with, wrt ongoing maintenance/updates. But it's a curve that you CAN survive, & thrive thereafter. You've been using Linux much much longer then me, & i know i am a Linux-numpty, yet even a clod like me managed to have a great time with both TW & now Manjaro.
BTW, rocky's advice [in the next post] re VirtualBox & Neon is of course excellent, but naturally you can use VMs also to decide if you like / want to seriously consider any other new-to-you distro too. I make very heavy use of VB VMs for detailed testing of multiple candidate distros... i never choose to actually replace my on-SSD OS until/unless i have first heavily played with that candidate in a VM. Also as rocky said, those same VMs remain invaluable even once you might have migrated your installed-on-disk OS, because you can test-drive each future update safely there before then proceeding with the update "for real". Similarly i like to test individual new-to-me programs in my relevant VM before i install it in my real OS.
Good luck, best wishes.