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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Absolutely.

But giving advice with Linux is hard. There are so many options.

Like

  • do I recommend Linux mint, where the packages are rock solid and tested, and upgrades work pretty well, but it is also very outdated, limited and relies on XOrg?
  • or Fedora Atomic Desktops, where there are some presets I would always need to change, and where I would always need to layer packages to have a base OS that I can live with? Which is rock solid and great, but the packages are still often too new, online tutorials will often be useless, and you may have some missing package support (okay Distrobox)
  • or traditional Fedora, which also has often unstable packages, dnf is often unusable, but it is more versatile and supports dual-booting (with Windows)
  • or Ubuntu, which is very opinionated and I would run unsnap and more, deviate from the defaults, but have more tested packages, I hope? But there will be no chance for a no-snap atomic/image-based variant?
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

or traditional Fedora, which also has often unstable packages, dnf is often unusable

My experience with dnf is that it's slow as molasses but your average computer user isn't gonna install 10 new CLI apps per day /j

I've used Discover (dnf or flatpack backend) and you can install just about any software with 1 click. It takes a minute to install but that's fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My experience with dnf is that it’s slow as molasses

Zypper: hold my beer (it will be warm and flat by the time I'm done)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Can't wait for Rypper, the drop-in Zypper replacement written in Rust

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