Being able to follow a manual is a high bar nowadays
Communist, parent, techie and hobbyist artist. Learning Rust and tired of frontend development.
Being able to follow a manual is a high bar nowadays
Have fun, I believe one of those will fit your needs just fine ✨
You’re welcome, hope you enjoy your new Linux, whichever you choose ✨
I agree, but it’s kind of a low bar… I’m mostly glad with clearly leftist instances, regardless of their main orientation, since there’s at least some common ground.
Technical differences:
Fedora uses RPM for package format, and is made to work with the latest versions of software, so it’s almost a rolling release, and receives VERY constant updates (but it’s still solid). The only other release model is the SilverBlue/Kinoite which is all about having an immutable base system and managing your applications through Flatpak.
Debian OTOH uses the DEB package format, and comes in 3 update models:
Project differences:
Fedora is on paper “community driven” but it’s actually backed and steered on by RedHat. There’s also a current proposal about implementing telemetry (turned on by default).
Debian is entirely community-made and driven, with no big corporation being its owner and/or main sponsor, and it has a stronger focus on FOSS. It’s about as old as RedHat (both have their origins in the early 90s), so you can bet they’ll both be around basically forever.
Edit: both are great distros, mature, stable and easy to use. Fedora was previously my most beloved, but my relationship with it soured over RedHat’s leadership decisions. Don’t let my current salt take away from the review :')
My main tips are: get the live ISOs of a few of the most used Linux distributions, I’d recommend in particular: Debian (my current one), Mint, Fedora and OpenSUSE.
For Debian and Fedora, get both the KDE and GNOME editions. OpenSUSE is mainly only KDE, and Mint uses Cinnamon. Those are the “desktop types”.
Try each live system on a virtual machine and see which one you like best. Your main choice tbh is the desktop environment you like the best (mine is KDE, also called Plasma), each distribution has it’s own way of doing a few things as well.
Then pick the one you enjoy the most. All of those are long-lived, stable and well-supported and documented.
Source: me, I’ve used Linux since 2003 and introduced all my family it and they have been using it for years with no issue.
Flatseal is a life saver
Lemmy.ml also has Marxist roots, but it’s more general-use.
Lemmy.world is absolutely lib, though.
To be fair, more often than not I find stuff by going into “siloed sites” (yt, forums, etc) and searching from there than using a search engine, but it’s still good for stuff that are more common but also more of a hassle trying to remember than just searching it quickly (e.g. “how do I add my user to sudoers again?” kind of stuff)
Gonna give SearXNG a spin then, since even though “I don’t have anything to hide talk”, privacy is a right we’re better off upholding and I want to use services that respect it.
I use it sometimes and works fine. Not great, but it’s fine for not super specific stuff
Completely understandable. It’s a shame Linux is still a non-priority for most large communication apps. If Windows suddenly changed their display protocols, all of them would try to implement it fully in a matter of a few days, but for Wayland support they’ve dragged their feet for years.
Yes, but only on Chromium-based browsers unfortunately.
It’s been working for me on FireFox on most video conference sites. Could be smoother, but it’s serviceable
Oh shit…
As a frontend dev I hate frontend. CSS is not even the main issue.
Fuck Jest and having to mock libraries. I’m gonna go backend in Go or something like that ASAP.
Us FF buddies got each other’s backs, don’t worry
Every year that passes makes me happier I switched to Linux only instead of dual booting. Happy Debian user here.
When it isn’t the USA it’s their daddy Britain, ffs.
By far it’s Kate, even though I’m now a neovim user. It’s just a great IDE.