Have fun, I believe one of those will fit your needs just fine ✨
Communist, parent, techie and hobbyist artist. Learning Rust and tired of frontend development.
Have fun, I believe one of those will fit your needs just fine ✨
You’re welcome, hope you enjoy your new Linux, whichever you choose ✨
Technical differences:
Fedora uses RPM for package format, and is made to work with the latest versions of software, so it’s almost a rolling release, and receives VERY constant updates (but it’s still solid). The only other release model is the SilverBlue/Kinoite which is all about having an immutable base system and managing your applications through Flatpak.
Debian OTOH uses the DEB package format, and comes in 3 update models:
Project differences:
Fedora is on paper “community driven” but it’s actually backed and steered on by RedHat. There’s also a current proposal about implementing telemetry (turned on by default).
Debian is entirely community-made and driven, with no big corporation being its owner and/or main sponsor, and it has a stronger focus on FOSS. It’s about as old as RedHat (both have their origins in the early 90s), so you can bet they’ll both be around basically forever.
Edit: both are great distros, mature, stable and easy to use. Fedora was previously my most beloved, but my relationship with it soured over RedHat’s leadership decisions. Don’t let my current salt take away from the review :')
My main tips are: get the live ISOs of a few of the most used Linux distributions, I’d recommend in particular: Debian (my current one), Mint, Fedora and OpenSUSE.
For Debian and Fedora, get both the KDE and GNOME editions. OpenSUSE is mainly only KDE, and Mint uses Cinnamon. Those are the “desktop types”.
Try each live system on a virtual machine and see which one you like best. Your main choice tbh is the desktop environment you like the best (mine is KDE, also called Plasma), each distribution has it’s own way of doing a few things as well.
Then pick the one you enjoy the most. All of those are long-lived, stable and well-supported and documented.
Source: me, I’ve used Linux since 2003 and introduced all my family it and they have been using it for years with no issue.
Time to learn some c++, it’s a good cause to help with
Sounds interesting. Gonna check it out
You’re welcome! Hope you enjoy it~
They are, but some might not be available from the extension store. Usually copying from vscode extensions folder works with no issues in my experience, but search the Codium store first just in case.
It’s been a few years since I last used Sid, but I don’t remember it being that unstable. I’ve never spent much time with Arch to make that comparison though, so I can’t really judge on that.
Debian Sid fits the bill with flying colours. I’m personally sticking with Bookworm though, I enjoy stability and slower upgrades.
Aside from the (not so much) jokes, give VSCodium a try, it’s to VSCode what Chromium is to Chrome, and works just as well.
Ooohhh that’s new to me, definitely a cool possibility. One more app to host on my wishlist
It’d be really nice if a peertube instance was easier to setup individually and had built-in donation support. Some non-mainstream folks would probably appreciate the option for a more cozy and intimate platform they could set up as they please.
Firefox sync is really neat as well, though. I like not needing to configure Firefox for each system I use when I can have everything sync’ed. I know Mozilla ain’t the greatest but they’re fine enough for my daily usage.
If I need full privacy I can go Librewolf or Tor browser.
I’ve been using it for years and can’t live without it anymore. It’s too goddamn useful.
That could have been better communicated though. What you said is reasonable, what Michal said isn’t as much.
Micro gang here. There are at least two of us!
This is really neat and you just gave me my new hobby, thank you!
I just don’t give it a go sooner because I don’t really like gnome 😅 too many things that work differently from what I expect, and too many things I take for granted requires plugins and extensions. From what I’ve seen, Cosmic is shaping up really well though.
By far it’s Kate, even though I’m now a neovim user. It’s just a great IDE.