A continuation rant of
https://lemmy.world/post/18158630
Oh my. The games I usually play work fine under Linux, and now they work equally or worse. The few Unreal games that caused me to break my Linux streak work way better under Windows, but the experience is so much worse. Spectacle screenshots always work, windows one just somehow manages to break itself, there is no fix. Every second boot it advertises Windows 11, even though I'm "ineligble", since I have TPM disabled. No middle click paste. Applications keep going off bounds. PowerTools managed to reset twice now. Which C++ redistributable do I need to run this program? It's not the newest one or the year before that. It's not the one provided by the installer. It's 2013 (in this case only)! WSL mounting is a nightmare if I want it to be read only. AMD drivers refuse to install because windows update is stuck at a "failed" security update. Tried to make a folder? Explorer.exe just crashed! Update went through finally? Just kidding, xbox app was just installed! Do you like to change individual application volume? I knew you didn't! Install EarTrumpet! Oh, Windows store is broken by design! Then the settings. Why are they there if they just redirect to control panel?
What is this shit? I'm actually just going straight back to Linux, Fedora this time because of recommendations. If Wayland on fedora still does weird glitches, I will use x11 and suffer what happens on a 3-monitor setup with one monitor having a higher refresh rate and resolution. Windows is now only for games that won't run under it.
Now... Extra question; Why does every distro need yet another package manager? Yay/pacman I get because it seems to build it. Though I don't understand why, other than AUR. APT is so nice and easy... I hope DNF is the same.
Luckily, glibc is mostly backwards compatible. You can still hit issues if you have a binary blob that's been compiled against a newer version of glibc than what comes with your distro, or if it's compiled against an extremely old version of glibc, but that's not too common.
A lot of them have been around for a very long time - dpkg (then apt) since 1994, RPM (then yum then dnf) since 1997 - and there's no one package manager that's clearly better than the others.
dnf is just as easy, and in my experience, Fedora's repos are pretty comprehensive and have a lot of things that Debian's and Ubuntu's don't.
Fedora has packages that Debian does not? I have not used Fedora in a long time but is this true? Debian is reported to have twice as many packages as Fedora.
https://repology.org/
Or is this statement the result of things like COPR?
I'm not sure, but they're the only distro I've used that properly packages openrgb. It automatically does the udev rules and everything.
I can't remember examples off the top of my head, but there's been some GUI programs I've wanted to install that are in Fedora's repos but not in Debian's. I'll have to check my installed packages at home and see.
Debian's packages can also be very old, even in unstable. That's to be expected - Debian focuses on stability rather than going for the cutting edge - but it can cause issues when using it in a desktop environment (as opposed to a server environment). I've got a Framework 16 laptop and AMD contributed a bunch of bugfixes in the 6.9 kernel, which took a while to make it to bookworm-backports.
Debian is fantastic as a server OS and I've been using it for over 20 years, but on the desktop I ended up liking Fedora more.