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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What distro do you use and why? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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yes i did a os one but i am wondering what distros do you guys use and why,for me cachyos its fast,flexible,has aur(I loved how easy installing apps was) without tinkering.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

Fedora with GNOME.

I've been using it for over than 10 years in my main computer.

It simply works, it's nice, fresh packages, stable, GNOME is productivity champion (at least I know all the shortcuts, and how to tweak it to my daily use). I also know how to build and manipulate RPM packages, so it's pretty convenient.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 27 minutes ago

I've been using Fedora for the last 5 years and never had to reinstall the OS. I've been upgrading with no issues whatsoever.

With Ubuntu, I had to reinstall everything on every update because of errors. Not on EVERY update of course, but often enough to make me want to stick to LTSs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

afaik, fedora is the testing distro for RHEL. I also felt this way, when a new gnome version released much earlier than for Arch and it had an obvious bug that could be catched with little testing.

And many issues I found in Fedora's bug tracker was auto closed by the new release. Which is quite frequent. Reviewing the bugs is not that frequent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

oh, fedora,

fedora was so stable i had to run to arch-linux as there was nothing to tinker with

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What is the benefit of building / manipulating packages?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Mostly for fun/learning and to tweak some Fedora packages to my needs. I keep my own RPM repository.