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What distro do you use and why? (self.linux)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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yes i did a os one but i am wondering what distros do you guys use and why,for me cachyos its fast,flexible,has aur(I loved how easy installing apps was) without tinkering.

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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Fedora with GNOME.

I've been using it for over than 10 years in my main computer.

It simply works, it's nice, fresh packages, stable, GNOME is productivity champion (at least I know all the shortcuts, and how to tweak it to my daily use). I also know how to build and manipulate RPM packages, so it's pretty convenient.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I've been using Fedora for the last 5 years and never had to reinstall the OS. I've been upgrading with no issues whatsoever.

    With Ubuntu, I had to reinstall everything on every update because of errors. Not on EVERY update of course, but often enough to make me want to stick to LTSs.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Does Fedora have a long term support version? Last time I used it a decade ago I had to upgrade every 1-2 years.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    No LTS, they support each version for 1 year, and there are two major upgrades per year. I still haven't upgraded last October.

    But I never had an issue, I always upgraded using the terminal instead of the GUI.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What is the benefit of building / manipulating packages?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    afaik, fedora is the testing distro for RHEL. I also felt this way, when a new gnome version released much earlier than for Arch and it had an obvious bug that could be catched with little testing.

    And many issues I found in Fedora's bug tracker was auto closed by the new release. Which is quite frequent. Reviewing the bugs is not that frequent.

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