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Finally done with the distro-hop: My return to Fedora
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I've recently had some issues with Fedora (KDE). After I install any update it tells me to restart to finish installing. So I restart and it still tells me the same thing. Probably time I distrohop again.
With the usual restriction of "either upstream or Mint, otherwise you're doing it wrong". There are 6 options. Ubuntu is obviously out. Arch is not my cup of tea. Fedora is already ruled out. Debian/Mint aren't as secure as Fedora/OpenSUSE. That leaves me with going back to OpenSUSE Leap.
But the proprietary media codecs on OpenSUSE come from the AUR ... looks like I'm out of options.
This might not be your issue, but I remember for me there's this button in the tray that appears after all updates are downloaded. You click it and there's an option to restart and update. If you just go to the main menu to restart, it doesn't always show this "restart and update" option, and just restarts without installing the updates. Though even if you make this mistake you shouldn't need to re-download the updates. Just go to KDE Discover and check for updates again, and the button will appear in the tray again. I think.
Also maybe you'd like the Fedora atomic distros, like Bazzite or Aurora. Unlike installing the updates during reboot, they install them in a "disabled state" while the system is running. Then you reboot and it automatically boots to the new version, no need to wait for any installation. What's neat is that it's really hard to break. Even if you pull the power while it's installing updates, it will just use the previous version and try installing again. No risk of corruption.
What's the security issue with Debian and Mint? Debian is usually my goto but I don't want to expose myself to security issues
Linux in general is not secure for desktop users. There's basically never sandboxing, and when there is it's usually weak, antivirus is rarely used, and developers aren't vetted as stringently as with paid software. Apparently Fedora and OpenSUSE take these issues more seriously, and SE Linux does somewhat restrict what malicious things a piece of software can do.
It's a pretty widely held view that Fedora and OpenSUSE are more secure than Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch for desktop users but I'm not really an expert so I'm mostly retroactively justifying what I've heard second-hand.
There's also https://secureblue.dev/
I got fed up with Discover's whole reboot-to-update thing and just disabled it.
Eventually, I ended up just disabling updates through discover altogether, I'd rather just use my little bash script anyways.
With LUKS the whole "reboot to update" thing is 1000 times as inconvenient. I set it to install updates immediately, and even automatically, but the update process just isn't going great for me in a bunch of ways.