Why I’m Returning to Fedora
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I’ve finally stopped the distro-hop. After testing the waters, I’m back to Fedora Linux and KDE Plasma. Here is why it’s the stability I needed for home.

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.

  • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    3·
    22 hours ago

    OP posted to this sub with an article about void 17 days ago. OOP, sure maybe.

    I’m trying Void on old hardware and it feels pretty usable. Package availability still an issue*. I’ve also noticed some dependencies not getting added (git not included with programming lang that needs it for its package manager, installed archive manager engrampa and it couldn’t actually open zips until I added another package for that). I’ll probably keep this on my old machine just for testing musl compilation.

    * appimages might help, other solutions with redundancy not so much with extra downloading

    • AsSaMiTa@tardigram.com
      1·
      18 hours ago

      Yes, the installation is similar to Arch, it gives you the versatility to do an installation however you want without software blobs.

      • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        1·
        11 hours ago

        I like that Void seems to better handle less frequent updates than Arch, but my point is that the package system seems to be a bit of a step backwards. (which to be fair doesn’t seem like anything unique to Void, optional dependencies is commonly not a thing or is inconvenient like OpenSUSE’s patterns)