Have fun, I believe one of those will fit your needs just fine ✨
Communist, parent, techie and hobbyist artist. Learning Rust and tired of frontend development.
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 ✨
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.
Time to learn some c++, it’s a good cause to help with
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
Sounds interesting. Gonna check it out
You’re welcome! Hope you enjoy it~
They are, but some might not be available from the extension store. Usually copying from vscode extensions folder works with no issues in my experience, but search the Codium store first just in case.
It’s been a few years since I last used Sid, but I don’t remember it being that unstable. I’ve never spent much time with Arch to make that comparison though, so I can’t really judge on that.
Debian Sid fits the bill with flying colours. I’m personally sticking with Bookworm though, I enjoy stability and slower upgrades.
Aside from the (not so much) jokes, give VSCodium a try, it’s to VSCode what Chromium is to Chrome, and works just as well.
That could have been better communicated though. What you said is reasonable, what Michal said isn’t as much.
Micro gang here. There are at least two of us!
Having some experience with both Python and JS/TS, I don’t have much preference about ternaries or expressions. Although I always break lines for ternary statements.
const testStuff = condition ?
outcome(1) :
outcome(2);
Having everything on the same line ruins readability for me.
By far it’s Kate, even though I’m now a neovim user. It’s just a great IDE.