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submitted 1 day ago by TheIPW@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Two years into full-time Linux and I’m finally burning the distro-hopping cycle. I fell for the Arch/AUR trap for a while, but I got tired of spending my weekends debugging file manager crashes instead of maintaining my home lab.

Switched back to Fedora, and it’s boring in exactly the way I need it to be. It’s a stable launchpad for my projects, not the project itself.

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[-] Mistiygirl@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago

What is it with everyone going to Fedora? New Ubuntu apparently.

[-] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago

Fedora is solid these days, well the last few years. It's been so easy and everything is up to date, not lagging behind lke Ubuntu.

Ubuntu been awful since the beginning, always buggy always needing to be rinstalled at some point.

It lives on hype alone. I would choose anything over Ubuntu.

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

Fedora recently provided some exciting developments in the Linux world, and it's genuinely interesting to follow.

It's also reasonably new and reasonably stable, which is often so much of a pain point to balance.

Also, I mean, it is the distro Linus himself prefers.

[-] Mistiygirl@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Linus liking something doesn't mean anything. He has some other strange opinions too.

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sure, and it's not about liking. It's about being damn sure Fedora will keep up with Linux development.

Linus is not the one to distro-hop, and you can be sure that his workstation will be perfectly operational and up to date with Linux development. And therefore, yours can probably be too.

[-] brax@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

I don't get it, but I also haven't used Fedora since like 2007. I settled on Ubuntu for a while then jumped ship to Arch, and maybe for the first time I haven't been wondering where I'd go to next because something frustrated me with the os lol

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

You know? Like, there's zero friction with Arch, I feel like. It's just out of your way.

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