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Finally done with the distro-hop: My return to Fedora
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I have been on this Linux jam since 1996 with a CD copy of Red Hat that came with a magazine (Byte, maybe?). In 2018 I made the jump to Debian based distros specifically because I got tired of the surprises. Now my lab runs LMDE. The only thing more stable and boring is Debian Stable itself.
Like you said, I want to focus on my projects, not have the OS be my project.
it's kind of strange hearing about all this stability and everything on debian stable (and lmde by extension), when it was constantly broken for me and i had to do all kinds of weird fixes
i have a lenovo thinkpad t490s too so it's not like im running on brand new components or anything either
been running fedora kde for a few months and it's been running like a dream
That is strange. The entire
it is!
i'm wondering if i have some special version of the t490s cus thinkpads are supposed to co-operate well with linux
fastfetch says the host is "20NYS0FU00 (ThinkPad T490s)" if that rings a bell to anyone
I had Debian stable on my T480 for some time (maybe 3 years) and had no trouble at all. I was running XFCE at that time.
Stable doesn't necessarily means there aren't any bugs, it just means it doesn't change or changes are minor. Of course most bugs shouldn't be a show stopper, though annoying they should have a way to bypass them or simply not have that great a impact.
I recall when using and regularly updating Arch, a library update borked a software dependent on it — a software required for a Uni class mind you — and while I managed to get it working afterwards, I had to stay awake through the night. That's the difference between stable and rolling release, that wouldn't happen as easily on Debian stable.
For most users a rolling release model is fine, for servers, it's not.
At the same time, Ubuntu is so dumbed down thst certain things are impossible via the UI. I spent a whole day and 5 reinstalls to be able to install an encrypted OS next to another partition. This used to be trivial though the infstaller.
My first Linux distro was Red Hat 6 around 1996 I would suspect. It came with a Linux book that I bought.
I am pretty sure I started with either Halloween or Mother's Day because Red Hat Linux for Dummies came with Red Hat 2.1 which I am pretty sure came out in 96 or 97. I know Red Hat 6 was released in 1999, because I was neck deep in Y2K work at the time I installed it on my Compaq laptop.
I found the O'Reilly Red Hat 6 book online and it came out in August 1999. I would have pegged it earlier than that but I guess not.