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What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"? (feddit.uk)
submitted 11 months ago by case_when@feddit.uk to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I've been using Linux Mint since forever. I've never felt a reason to change. But I'm interested in what persuaded others to move.

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[–] sagedemage@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (7 children)

I hopped to many distros and found Ubuntu to be my home.

  1. Mint => Desktop looks dated and ugly
  2. POP! OS => Unstable for Ubuntu distro
  3. Rest of Ubuntu forks => nothing special about them
  4. Arch Linux => Too bleedy edge
  5. Debian => stale packages (Really solid distro though but dated version of Gnome)
  6. Ubuntu => Really solid distro (It is a great balance between stability and bleeding edge)
[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Fedora => opposite of debian. Bleeding edge, but that means you have to spend an insane amount of time updating or it will reach EOL in no time

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

you have to spend an insane amount of time updating

How slow is your internet connection?

or it will reach EOL in no time

Sure you don't confuse Fedora with non-LTS Ubuntu releases? According to https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/lifecycle/ each release is supported for 13 months which isn't 10 years of LTS but hardly "in no time" either.

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 1 points 11 months ago

I don't mean downloading updates I mean manually updating your configuration to adapt to new versions of the software. That's what takes time. I know 13 months is already quite high but it feels too low for me. I'm running servers over longer periods than that

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