• mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    9 months ago

    Ubuntu Repos: Sometimes runs out of food or accidentally spills two trays together

    Fedora Repos: New plates every week

    Debian Repos: Same 3 meals that are 5 star rated

    Arch Repos: A machine gun that continuously fires pulverized food at your mouth

    • KISSmyOS@feddit.de
      7·
      9 months ago

      I only update Arch before installing new software, or when there’s a news item about something requiring manual intervention.
      So about once a month.
      Every update is basically a complete reinstall.

      • Taste@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        8 months ago

        Bro, what? You’re doing something majorly wrong if everytime you update you have to treat it as a fresh install.

        • KISSmyOS@feddit.de
          2·
          8 months ago

          No no, it just installs the new packages and everything works. Takes a minute. What I meant is, it installs new versions for basically every installed package.

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        I was going to say the same thing. Almost daily updates, and never a crash or a lockup after a new update.

        I’m honestly surprised more people don’t use Fedora. (I’m using the KDE spin in case that matters to anyone.)

        • baseless_discourse@mander.xyz
          1·
          9 months ago

          I do believe fedora is not as beginner friendly as mint or ubuntu, mainly in installer, nvidia driver installation, and codecs. You also need a third party app (tweak) to manage startup applications.

          There is also not enough resource about the distro, as most resource is written for ubuntu. This can be another point of frustration for beginners.

          Also gnome store is super slow and refreshes a lot, which is not a great introduction to linux.

          But I do believe it is a great distro for people’s first distro-hop.

          • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
            2·
            9 months ago

            I don’t mean to be argumentative, but I don’t believe you’re correct on several points.

            For example, if you’re using the KDE version you don’t have to worry about the Gnome store being slow. And the KDE version comes with its own app for managing startup applications, so no third party app is needed.

            As far as ease of use of install, as long as you’re not trying to repartition drives and you’re taking all the defaults it installs really easily, and all you have to do is click a checkbox for third party drivers and that gets the Nvidia and codecs stuff installed.

            I too started on a Ubuntu and then moved over the Fedora, and it seems like it has much better hardware support, especially for older hardware. I don’t know if that’s just IBM’s influence or what, as I don’t track the day-to-day of the two different distributions.

      • Johanno@feddit.de
        2·
        9 months ago

        Debian Trixie has daily (even multiple times a day) updates currently.

        I update every once in a while. Still need to figure out an update schedule that checks every few hours

        • dan@upvote.au
          5·
          9 months ago

          You could install and configure the unattended-upgrades package to install updates in the background. I usually wouldn’t recommend it on testing or unstable though. Works well OK Debian stable since there’s generally no breaking changes.

          • Johanno@feddit.de
            2·
            9 months ago

            Hadn’t breaking changes for over half a year. Don’t expect really bad ones. And if then I can uninstall the package