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Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?
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Fedora has been rock solid. I kinda wish I didn’t have to download 300MB-1GB updates every day, but I’m glad there’s updates!
I really wish there was more cohesiveness among software, but I can’t complain when people are trying to help that along over time.
I’ve had zero issues with Wayland.
The Nobara updater is fairly unreliable, as is Discover on my plain Fedora machine. A system update will show up, but error out or hang for no reason. Updating via dnf in the terminal has had zero issues.
I really wish there was a clearer UI for choosing which source to download a given package/app from when there are multiple sources.
I kinda wish there were more UI designers working with engineers, because some of the UI I encounter is obviously built by engineers. It’s not a problem, but if I were less technologically inclined, I might’ve seen that as a barrier to committing to Linux.
You don't have to upgrade every day. But 500mb-1gb seems like a lot - are you on an Atomic version of Fedora? (Silver blue, Kionite, etc)
I’m on Fedora workstation and Nobara (on 2 different machines). Discover has Fedora system updates literally every day, which range from 350MB to sometimes over 1GB. Discover doesn’t show much detail about the updates when I click “more information” (or whatever they call it on the update screen). Again, not a huge big deal, but it is definitely different from macOS where updates are only file deltas and not entire updated packages.
At a guess you're probably updating Flatpak packages too which explains it. There's nothing wrong with them but Flatpaks are bundled with all needed dependencies to that they run on any Linux distro. This means they generally work better at the cost of disk space. Theoretically you could install all your software natively into Fedora and have smaller updates/disk usage, but at a greater risk of dependency issues.
500–1,000 MB every day? That's worse than my Arch installations. I update it almost every day, each time there's like maybe 2–50 MB of updates.
It I don't update for a month or so, there's usually around 5 GB of updates.
Yeah, Its the only weak part of the entire distro, imho.
but you can run the proper updates via commandline with
sudo nobara-sync cliits not ideal, but at least its pain free updating until they get rid of the Nobara Updater.