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Introducing GNOME 49, “Brescia”
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I always go back to Fedora. Different strokes for different folks and I’m definitely not trying to have a “Which distro?!?” conversation. Maybe you have philosophical reasons to hate it. (I do sometimes too.) But that’s my home base.
It’s partly because I learned on WhiteHat/CentOS/RHEL for work. But even today, it’s my stable, baseline distro. They don’t change Gnome or push updates without at least some testing. (I know.) Drivers almost always work. There’s (usually) documentation written by paid professionals. It’s just a good, solid OS that I can make mine without uninstalling shit or worrying it’s unstable.
Debian is perfect for that too, obviously and I’m eternally grateful for Arch’s wiki and community. But for my needs, Fedora strikes a near-perfect balance.
Your views on distros follows mine. Fedora is my day to day and debian is my server os of choice.
I like Fedora and Debian a lot, but update fatigue drove me crazy with Fedora in particular. I know I don’t HAVE to update everyday, but if they’re available I can’t help myself. I like how calm and still Debian feels in comparison. I’m running mostly Debian 13 now days and I’m going to try holding out the full 2 years before the next version. It’ll be a bit of a marathon as I read about all these new features every 6 months.
Typically with Debian distros, I set security updates to be automatic and I just go in every now and then and update the rest. But I pretty much only use it on servers and Raspberry Pi side projects.
To be clear to people who find this, none of these distros we’re talking about are for massive scale. We’re talking personal stuff, side projects, small businesses, etc. Don’t put Kali Linux on your laptop. It’s made for a specific purpose.
Arista had a mass produced network switches line based on fedora circa 2020; they back ported everything to keep it up to date.