It needs to "just work". It's not more complicated than that.
shapis
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That's not it. If you install on your hardware with the live image. Apt upgrade is broken. On your hardware. Not on the live image.
Because you can't update your system at all. How's that not a problem?
I'm confused about this question.
If you install debian through the live image. The apt upgrade of your installation will come out of the box broken.
You are definitely doing something wrong.
Yes, installing through official media and doing sudo apt-get upgrade, the horror.
My suggestion would be to start with something stable like Debian
It's literally broken out of the box rn. The Debian live images are borked
I think the main issue with those is that flatpaks dont play nice with development tools, or cli tools.
If you use those you have to use container workarounds, which annoy some people, myself included.
That's more or less my experience too, my installation slowly breaks over time til I'm fed up and reinstall everything. Not sure what I'm even doing wrong if anything at all.
If you think that's the case. Check some big forums for each big distro right after a point update to read the tales of woe and breakage.
My personal experience with this has been:
Pop_OS broke after an update. Unrepairable as far as I could tell. And I tried hard. Happened to multiple.people there was a reddit thread about it.
Fedora broke on an update. Not sure if repairable. I didn't try. I had the most boring vanilla installation possible.
Arch has been unbootable twice over the years. And had to do many manual interventions. Both times it was fixable.
People are not lying to you when they say it breaks randomly. Just because it wasn't your personal experience doesn't mean it isn't a common experience. You just have been lucky so far.
Oh this one is easy. The higher market share the better software support they get.
And as a secondary bonus, the more people use it the more people contribute to it and make it even better. But mostly this one is just an extension of the first point.