Have fun, I believe one of those will fit your needs just fine ✨
Communist, parent, techie and hobbyist artist. Learning Rust and tired of frontend development.
Have fun, I believe one of those will fit your needs just fine ✨
You’re welcome, hope you enjoy your new Linux, whichever you choose ✨
Technical differences:
Fedora uses RPM for package format, and is made to work with the latest versions of software, so it’s almost a rolling release, and receives VERY constant updates (but it’s still solid). The only other release model is the SilverBlue/Kinoite which is all about having an immutable base system and managing your applications through Flatpak.
Debian OTOH uses the DEB package format, and comes in 3 update models:
Project differences:
Fedora is on paper “community driven” but it’s actually backed and steered on by RedHat. There’s also a current proposal about implementing telemetry (turned on by default).
Debian is entirely community-made and driven, with no big corporation being its owner and/or main sponsor, and it has a stronger focus on FOSS. It’s about as old as RedHat (both have their origins in the early 90s), so you can bet they’ll both be around basically forever.
Edit: both are great distros, mature, stable and easy to use. Fedora was previously my most beloved, but my relationship with it soured over RedHat’s leadership decisions. Don’t let my current salt take away from the review :')
My main tips are: get the live ISOs of a few of the most used Linux distributions, I’d recommend in particular: Debian (my current one), Mint, Fedora and OpenSUSE.
For Debian and Fedora, get both the KDE and GNOME editions. OpenSUSE is mainly only KDE, and Mint uses Cinnamon. Those are the “desktop types”.
Try each live system on a virtual machine and see which one you like best. Your main choice tbh is the desktop environment you like the best (mine is KDE, also called Plasma), each distribution has it’s own way of doing a few things as well.
Then pick the one you enjoy the most. All of those are long-lived, stable and well-supported and documented.
Source: me, I’ve used Linux since 2003 and introduced all my family it and they have been using it for years with no issue.
You’re implying they have any. Faith isn’t a requirement nowadays
Sounds interesting. Gonna check it out
You’re welcome! Hope you enjoy it~
They are, but some might not be available from the extension store. Usually copying from vscode extensions folder works with no issues in my experience, but search the Codium store first just in case.
It’s been a few years since I last used Sid, but I don’t remember it being that unstable. I’ve never spent much time with Arch to make that comparison though, so I can’t really judge on that.
Debian Sid fits the bill with flying colours. I’m personally sticking with Bookworm though, I enjoy stability and slower upgrades.
Aside from the (not so much) jokes, give VSCodium a try, it’s to VSCode what Chromium is to Chrome, and works just as well.
That could have been better communicated though. What you said is reasonable, what Michal said isn’t as much.
Micro gang here. There are at least two of us!
This is really neat and you just gave me my new hobby, thank you!
I just don’t give it a go sooner because I don’t really like gnome 😅 too many things that work differently from what I expect, and too many things I take for granted requires plugins and extensions. From what I’ve seen, Cosmic is shaping up really well though.
That’s based. I might give PopOS a try when their new DE reaches feature completion (since they don’t sell their laptops in my country unfortunately)
Sounds like a noise a lizard could make
I can put some faith in SUSE, they’ve done good work throughout the years.
Unlike fucking Oracle.
Just be aware of distrowatch rankings, they’re sorted by visits to the site, impressions and etc, and don’t necessarily reflect how much a distro is really widely used.
As others have said, if your device doesn’t have a Nvidia card, go with Linux Mint. If you do have a Nvidia card Fedora (maybe not the default GNOME version, as GNOME’s workflow required some time to get used to) or openSUSE might be better options.
If you’re okay with a distro installer asking a few more questions than the basic ones, and you don’t need super updated stuff, you can also try Debian.
By far it’s Kate, even though I’m now a neovim user. It’s just a great IDE.