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Looks like NixOS 17.03 dropped yesterday (2017/03/31): https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=09772
Couple of days before that, Oracle Linux 6.9 (https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=09770) and DragonFly BSD 4.8.0 (https://distrowatch.com/9769).
For those who still use news readers, the feed is at https://distrowatch.com/news/dw.xml.
Hug of death (probably): https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wQGgEG...
I've got a very plain Asus notebook (no Nvidia card, just Intel Graphics!) running Debian 8 and the situation is unacceptable atm. I didn't have to reboot for weeks in the past. At the moment I am lucky if my laptop doesn't freeze thanks to sleep/hibernate within 2 days.
I hate Gentoo with a passion. Being able to pick versions and set flags means that, between any two Gentoo installations, the difference is likely bigger than any two Ubuntu 16.04 installation.
I think it just creates more complexity for support scenarios.
I'd definitely not recommend it for "serious desktop use" unless you are a hardcore graybeard.
I don't agree with the support thing though. Most Gentoo users are knowledgeable; developers are always on irc/forums lending support; certain commands such as `emerge --info' make it easy to figure out what the state of the machine is regarding flags/masks.
[1] https://manjaro.org/2017/04/01/phasing-out-x86-architecture-...
Also, nothing to back up the assertions.
The DE might have something to do with it, though; I typically set people up with Xfce, whereas KDE - as fantastic as it may be - can be a little overwhelming for new users.
The complaints about Fedora are spot-on, though, even if lacking specificity in this article. Every time I've used Fedora, it's been a nightmare of kernel panicking/oopsing and weird user-facing software bugs that are just plain absent even on other "bleeding-edge" distros on the same hardware.