You use Linux because cuz Linux is good.

I use Linux because the BSDs are less popular. I want to get paid and have corporate applications on my desktop.

We are not the same. 😂

That’s not a bad strategy. Just gotta add some leftist politics to the mix.

It can be. It depends on the extension dev.

To run Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or some other FOSS OS?

I’m running Fedora on a refurbished Thinkpad P1 Gen 4, and I’ve had good luck running Linux and the BSDs on higher end refurbished Dell Optiplex, Latitude, and Precision equipment.

Apple hardware is nice, and MacPorts gives me access to the vast majority of my *nix tools.

Shopping for new hardware I’d look at the list below to get Linux preinstalled.

• Thinkpad X1 Carbon
• Slimbook
• System76
• Tuxedo Computers
• Juno Computers
• Starlabs Systems

Or buy refurbed equipment from Dell or Lenovo.

Forgejo is working on federation. That is the big item.

I happen to like the term FOSS and would like to keep it around. It’s catchy.

Definitely time to kick out the corporatists though.

RH doesn’t allow sharing of the spec files which generate the RHEL rpm packages. The program’s code is still under whatever license it is licensed under.

Besides all the RHEL code is public and upstream in CentOS, which makes more sense anyway.

The Nvidia drivers from rpm fusion are one of the third party repos Software with prompt people to enable on the first time it’s opened.

Flathub is enabled by default now. I want to say F37 enabled it by default.

There are better options then Canonical.

OpenSUSE is backed by SUSE, and Fedora is backed by Red Hat. SUSE and Red Hat are both for-profit companies, and both are better FOSS citizens.

Debian isn’t that vanilla. Debian packages are well known to carry Debian specific patches.

It’s something to think about.

Gentoo will probably be better if you’re using AUR, and Gentoo recently started shipping binary packages which can be mixed and matched with compiled software. 😄

Not really. He posts under his own name, so I recognized it from the forums.

He’ll have more time to spend on the Phoronix forums now. 🙂

I have to agree. I tried some of the JetBrains IDEs from Flathub, and I switched back to the regular JetBrains Toolbox versions.

Plus, being able to sandbox user space applications, which previously had free reign, is nice.

Sandboxing isn’t 100% there yet, but it’s come along way.

I did on arch.

Arch. There’s the problem. 😆

Fedora and Tumbleweed keep up with Arch while being easier to maintain. Fedora is a semi-rolling release, and Tumbleweed is rolling release. Both are much more stable than Arch is.

Arch is great for people who want to tinker with their desktop/laptop install. I do not, so I run Fedora.

It depends on the user.

Run Fedora or Tumbleweed. They will be continuously updated, and an install will last years.

It will always boot…

Your basis for comparison is Arch which is known to be highly unstable and a handful to maintain. 😆

For my work, I need different OSes and distros for testing. If someone needs a stable distro for something, a VM or container will work. There are ways around the needing a stable.

Also, containers aren’t a penalty.

It’s good for clean up, and I got used to it on Windows.

You can break the cycle. Just because some you suffered doesn’t mean others have to. 🙂

Everyone says they’re going to clean up their profiles, but no one does. 😆

Keep your dot files in a repo…

I have that because I run through so many test servers and temp installs.

Then there are Ansible playbooks to setup my systems.

The cutting edge distro will have better consumer hardware support, which matters in a laptop/desktop.

They don’t have any devs to support it. The one dev who an idea about btrfs left for Oracle, from what I’ve read.

Btrfs is rather nice in the correct scenarios, and lack of btrfs is one reason I’m moving away from CentOS servers.

Just why? RHEL gets a new version every 5 years.

You answered your own question. Maintaining software will eat up lots of time. It’s fine when there is a team to maintain software for installs, but not really something a single person running a desktop/laptop probably wants to deal with.

The 5yr release cycle is a pain starting about year 3 even for people who get paid to deal with it. 😆

VMs and containers on top of something more up to date is the best of both. Up to date distro with features, and all the distros one could want!

In-place upgrades are very relevant. Who wants to destroy their setup and reinstall everything when a new OS is released?

There is leapp for EL in-place upgrades, but it’s new and rather rough, from my testing.

Flatpak has made software support better, but I’d still recommend something else without a concrete reason, like proprietary CFD software or something which only supports EL.