I made the switch around this time last year and haven’t looked back. A few things have taken a bit of effort to figure out, but largely it has been a breeze. I should’ve done this many years earlier.
I made the switch around this time last year and haven’t looked back. A few things have taken a bit of effort to figure out, but largely it has been a breeze. I should’ve done this many years earlier.
I face some issues with updates on linux breaking things (Arch btw) but it’s usually an hour debugging and then a “hey, someone already made a fix for this as a pull request that you could install now if you compile from git”.
That’s a hassle, but it’s better than spending an hour debugging, realizing the only real solution is to wait for a hotfix from the powers that be, then several more hours trying to get a workaround, then the five stages of grief ending in admitting defeat and waiting for the hotfix that’ll break something else.
On Linux, there’s always a way to do what you want to do, with all the risk and reward that comes with that.
I’ve been pretty happy with being downstream of Debian stable. I’ve only been burned by outdated packages a couple of times, which hasn’t been that bad. I’m much more of a “set and forget” type of user.
that is the beauty of Linux distributions. there is something for everyone
Same here. I sometimes have issues with updating even Fedora. Point of fact, just yesterday I logged in and noticed Firefox acting like a slideshow when scrolling. Videos would also lag (I could tell it was lagging because I was watching a video about recompilation projects and the onscreen game was Dusklight running at 60 yet my screen was lagging) and games even would too.
I got frustrated and updated everything again through Discover and it was back to normal.
I do NOT like to update my Linux or Windows computers because I have shit luck and there is always something going wrong on either. :'-]