I never thought about it before but I use upstream and downstream without much though. For my personal devices and containers I use Fedora but when it comes to servers and VMs I use Debian for its stable nature.
I also run Linux mint in my homelab with pcie pass though so it functions like a normal desktop.
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This is an aberration. You must choose one and never deviate.
Seriously though I think it’s pretty normal. When I install Linux i usually pick whatever distro at the time and end up using a couple of different ones. I have arch on my desktop and Pop OS on my laptop at the moment.
I have arch (btw) on my desktop and Pop OS on my laptop
Yeah, my desktop runs arch one laptop runs Ubuntu server and I have a surface 4 running Nobara (a flavour of fesora)
*btw
Touché
Is it weird that you prefer different tools for different jobs?
Nope.
What? You use sandpaper for sanding and saw for sawing??
Are you trying to ruin hammer industry? Back in the day radicals like you would have been burned on a stake.
Just wait until you realize what I do with the screwdriver.
Watch your mouth or Big Hammer will get you.
No, though it is weird that you feel like you should ask such nonsensical questions in public forums.
I just wanted to generate activity on Lemmy
Nah, it’s pretty weird that you enjoy being mean on public forums. If you want to criticize then do so, don’t be an ass about it.
No in fact that’s a violation of the GPLv69 and Richard Stallman is going to come to your house and format your hard drive
Using the tool that best fits the use case is not weird. It’s common sense.
Is it weird
No. You’re fine.
It would be weirder to like Linux and Windows, but hey someone had to write samba 😹
Only reason why that is weird to me, is just how much better Linux is. I’m too old to give a shit about a fanboy mentality. Linux used to be something you suffered through in order to get a tradeoff only available to power users. Now, my 90 year old grandmother has an easier time with Linux. It’s more consistent, and doesn’t break stuff nearly as often.
A more controversial take, is that I feel the same about MacOS. It was a lot of work in order to reduce how often it is annoying.
Samba is much easier to deal with than NFS. I would use it in a all Linux environment honestly.
I tend to agree - I have no love lost for Microsoft but I’m also willing to admit when they’ve got some good tech.
I don’t get it
He gives you the look like “really”.
Yes. It’s illegal actually. A Microsoft team has been dispatched and is en route to your place right now to install Win 11 S on all of your devices.
I keep going back and forth between Xubuntu Minimal and Fedora. Im just tooling around on a $38 Lenovo Chromebook, which has only 16GB of flash storage (soldered of course). Fedora has the smaller footprint, and runs pretty smooth. Xubuntu Minimal is, well, minimal so it is pretty snappy. Xfce is where it’s at for me.
Sometimes having so much choice can feel like a hindrance when it comes to trying to find a district that checks all of our boxes.
You also could use Fedora Xfce4
Very true. I’m so used to apt, and am also lazy. I just need to bite the bullet and RTFM lol.
Those are both good distros for those purposes. I’m not a fan of Debian as a desktop distro but it’s awesome as a headless server, and Fedora moves too fast for my tastes as a server distro but that’s fine in a desktop.
So good choice.
I do the same. Fedora on my laptop because I want a balance of stability and having the newest features. Servers run Debian, because I don’t have time to fix and update things.
I use both myself, Fedora for desktop work and Debian for server
I like em all to match usually. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on the desktop/laptop, Leap on my home server.
Though I didn’t run Arch on my server when I did on my personal computers
I think it’s pretty normal. For me, I switch back and forth between NixOS and Arch because neither of them provides me with exactly what I’m looking for i.e a distro that has all the packages I use within its repos (I hate compiling) and is static release (I often forget to update), but is not immutable (sometimes I need special programs for university that can only be obtained via compiling from source on a non-immutable distro). Arch and NixOS both have all the packages I need (only ones that do afaik), and one of them pffers static release but is immutable, while the other is rolling release but is not immutable. Currently I’m on Arch, but when (if) it breaks, I’ll just switch to NixOS instead of fixing it, and use distrobox or something similar for any packages that need to be compiled.
I use Debian on my servers, Arch on my laptop and desktop. Different tools for different jobs. I tried Debian on my laptop a few years ago but it wasn’t a good fit for me - my hardware was too new for the stable kernel, and the Wayland/wlroots stuff was too far behind. As a server though, especially since I’m mostly running Podman containers, stable and slow-updating is great! I use unattended-upgrades and haven’t had a problem yet.
I haven’t spent much time with Fedora but I’d probably like it as a desktop OS - fairly fast updates, and sticks pretty close to upstream without a ton of custom theming for example. I would miss the AUR, but Flatpak covers a lot of what I need, and Distrobox could handle anything else.
