Distro-hoppers anonymous

el_koraco · 2022-10-30 14:08:58

Not distro hopping per se, but I came back to Debian Stable after ten years of Arch and Ubuntu - ditched Gnome with Wayland for X with scrotwm. I really have no idea what I was thinking for all this time. There is no OS comparable to Debian Stable.

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vic · 2022-10-30 14:42:33

^Yes, I know the feeling too well. It is easy to too be led astray by fools gold. I suffer still.

beaker · 2022-10-30 19:48:26

el_koraco wrote:

Not distro hopping per se, but I came back to Debian Stable after ten years of Arch and Ubuntu - ditched Gnome with Wayland for X with scrotwm. I really have no idea what I was thinking for all this time. There is no OS comparable to Debian Stable.

Personally I'm not back to Debian Stable, but that's good to hear el_koraco.

el_koraco · 2022-10-30 20:33:34

Debian all the way.

Nili · 2022-10-31 16:20:32

After using Tumbleweed for 4 months, i too will not go back to Debian, I was a solid Debian/based/fork user for ten years, it was time for me to get divorce from Deb. Have been used too many WM, but i am done with WM-standalone as well. I have become somewhat lazy to do things myself.

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el_koraco · 2022-10-31 17:13:54

I guess it evens out, a long time Debian user for a long time Debian absentee. openSUSE has traditionally had the best KDE/Plasma implementation, so you are on solid ground there if you like that desktop.

Nili · 2022-10-31 18:50:52

I never thought i would have gone to a distro like openSUSE, or KDE some times ago.

After a long time Debian/GTK really i needed for a change, bought a new hardware, so i gave a try Fedora/GNOME for a few months, currently openSUSE/KDE.

Being for years into GNOME/GTK apps, I thought i would visit KDE just to check it up, where better than a distro like openSUSE, which is a good and safe for KDE/plasma? So far it seems pleasant to my new desktop.

Thanks, indeed it is very good OS so far.

el_koraco · 2022-10-31 20:07:14

Nili wrote:

After a long time Debian/GTK really i needed for a change, bought a new hardware, so i gave a try Fedora/GNOME for a few months

I would rather use Windows than Fedora, it is the buggiest distro ever. Arch is the best Gnome distro.

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deleted0 · 2022-10-31 21:45:04

KaOS - cutting edge Plasma and everything QT (Calligra office suite, etc)
https://kaosx.us/

KDE neon - featuring the latest KDE Plasma desktop and other KDE community software on a Ubuntu base.
https://neon.kde.org/

Fedora Spins - not so bleeding edge rolling distro. (My current fav - Xfce edition)
https://spins.fedoraproject.org/

Kubuntu - just released Kenetic Kudu - solid performer. (My #2)
https://kubuntu.org/

Solus
https://getsol.us/home/

MX Linux
https://mxlinux.org/

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deleted0 · 2022-10-31 21:53:21

el_koraco wrote:

Fedora, it is the buggiest distro ever.

That's a big claim - ever.

I'm running Fedora Xfce a couple of months now, no issues. I would run Nobara Plasma if I wanted Fedora Plasma.
https://nobaraproject.org/

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el_koraco · 2022-11-01 00:03:32

eight.bit.al wrote:

el_koraco wrote:
Fedora, it is the buggiest distro ever.
That's a big claim - ever.
I'm running Fedora Xfce a couple of months now, no issues. I would run Nobara Plasma if I wanted Fedora Plasma.
https://nobaraproject.org/

But you are a serial distro hopper, you can work out all the niggles. I tried Fedora twice ages ago, I will never repeat the "experience".

deleted0 · 2022-11-01 01:21:00

el_koraco wrote:

I tried Fedora twice ages ago, I will never repeat the "experience".

As is your right. There are none so blind as those who will not see. I completely agree with your opinion of Debian Stable.

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deleted0 · 2022-11-01 02:53:05

Kinetic Kudu w/ latest Plasma 5.26 from the backports repo.

Colonel Panic · 2022-11-01 15:16:19

Just on Fedora: I installed Ultramarine on my hard drive (I mentioned it on page 88 of this thread), which is based on Fedora, and I haven't really had any problems with it although I don't use it that much.

Mine is the Flagship edition, which uses Budgie as its desktop manager;

https://ultramarine-linux.org/download/

el_koraco · 2022-11-01 16:59:24

Look, hating on Fedora is just part of my identity.

Nili · 2022-11-01 19:28:54

el_koraco wrote:

I would rather use Windows than Fedora, it is the buggiest distro ever. Arch is the best Gnome distro.

Fedora is an awesome stable system at least it was to me on version 35 and 36, Two editions i have tried. Meanwhile, Windows is a single system, take it as it is or die. Linux diversity is better , so anything over Windows to me.

Colonel Panic · 2022-11-01 22:21:36

Nili wrote:

el_koraco wrote:
I would rather use Windows than Fedora, it is the buggiest distro ever. Arch is the best Gnome distro.
Fedora is an awesome stable system at least it was to me on version 35 and 36, Two editions i have tried. Meanwhile, Windows is a single system, take it as it is or die. Linux diversity is better , so anything over Windows to me.

I believe that Fedora is to Redhat what Testing is to Debian - it has all the newest and rawest software in the repositories so it can't be expected to be 100% reliable or problem-free. Nevertheless, I haven't had any problems in Ultramarine so far except for the size of the system upgrade (at least compared to the Debian ones I am used to).

I looked at doing a system upgrade in Ultramarine today but it said it needed a total of 1.4 GB to download, so I came out of there for the time being and am now posting from Beryllium.

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el_koraco · 2022-11-01 22:37:30

mariannemarlow wrote:

I have never even got Fedora to install.
Debian based Distro's however have been the easiest to install.

Exactly. My sister doesn't know the first thing about computers, they are an appliance to her. I have had her on Ubuntu on two laptops since about 2012 - and I literally mean that I installed Ubuntu once on each laptop. She knows how to click on whatever kind of software store they are using there, and the laptops self update from LTS to LTS version, with absolutely no input from me. Try that with Red Hat Experimental.

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deleted0 · 2022-11-02 00:46:29

Nitrux 2.5.0

Plasma 5.26.2
xanmod1 6.06-x64v3

Nili · 2022-11-04 14:16:55

Colonel Panic wrote:

I believe that Fedora is to Redhat what Testing is to Debian - it has all the newest and rawest software in the repositories so it can't be expected to be 100% reliable or problem-free. Nevertheless, I haven't had any problems in Ultramarine so far except for the size of the system upgrade (at least compared to the Debian ones I am used to).
I looked at doing a system upgrade in Ultramarine today but it said it needed a total of 1.4 GB to download, so I came out of there for the time being and am now posting from Beryllium.

That's true about Debian names Also, Fedora RAWHIDE is what SID is to Debian. I always used Testing for years on Debian, never had major concerns myself, if one is careful with the apt dist-upgrade process and logs everything is going fine. SID is more advisable than testing for a faster bug resolved. Packages from SID passing on testing, there is a process of weekly or monthly to go through. If a bug was caught, and does not pass to testing due to packages/policies conflicts you are forced to stay longer with a bug on this repo.

I only know by name Ultramarine Linux haven't used before, Just checked their download page now. All those ISO's seems ready made with a DE inside, so it is natural for the update processes to be larger. If the Internet/hardware are faster, there is no reason to worry at all.

BunsenLabs is very slim, openbox/tint2 small size, a bit of less packages to download and balanced to whom prefer simplicity. You'll find it comfortable

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