I don’t even know what it does.

Why do people use PopOS? I genuinely don’t get it.

Fedora Kinoite is, probably, the best recommendation.

Debian is a stable server distro, but in the desktop space users expect everything to just work and while Fedora is usually backwards compatible, Debian isn’t always forwards compatible.

As for security updates, IDK.

I’m operating mostly of second-hand information I vaguely remember, I’m not an expert on these things so I’m not really the person to be discussing this with. There’s surely a reason Linus uses Fedora over Debian though.

Because holding back updates makes the system insecure and unstable.

I’m considering distro-hopping from Kubuntu to Fedora Kinoite. I just am trying to figure out how it fairs in terms of application sandboxing, what they’re doing on supply chain security (re: XZ Utils) and whether I might want to give GNOME another shake.

Is this enough to update the Fedora Linux wikipedia page, or is it still just “the distribution used by Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel (as of May 2020)”? It isn’t exactly confirmed but … like what else is he gonna use. I don’t know if he’d be caught dead using Debian or Arch, and OpenSUSE would be too wild a choice.

I use CachyOS and it’s been more or less plug and play. Some next fest demos haven’t worked (i.e. B.C Piezophile) but whenever that happened I just moved on to a different game and put it in the “later” folder to see if time will fix it.

I switched and I often mention that online.

First I was on a laptop with Linux Mint and ran into innumerable issues. Used that for a few years.

Then I got a new (used) laptop after my CTRL key stopped working (among other things) and tried to dual-boot the pre-installed Windows 11 “just in case” but ended up accidentally corrupting it so gave up and stayed on all Linux for my laptop. My new laptop mostly “just worked” as opposed to my old laptop that didn’t even have working bluetooth.

Then I moved my Desktop to Linux and transferred Windows 10 to the aforementioned laptop with the broken CTRL key. That laptop has been sititng untouched in my closet since I went full Linux in mid-October.

The laptop’s too slim for anything but nvme, and apparently it was top of the line for it’s time.

EDIT: Apparently they nvme was preceeded by PCI-E SSD’s, so I’ll just go with that.

It’s a 13 year old slim laptop with next to no repairability. Presumably it had an Nvme SSD.

I bricked my mother’s computer (tried to create a USB backup, Windows 10 froze 80% through, cutting power corrupted the GPT partition table). She agreed to use Fedora Workstation on it so I tried to install it but it wouldn’t detect the drive after I ran basically every command in System Recovery Linux from a USB in an attempt to fix it.

We’ve concluded the laptop is done for. Thankfully I had just bought a used laptop for $40 (Toshiba Satelite Pro U500) that I had no actual use for (I just thought it was neat). Unfortunately it came with Windows 10 and unlike Windows 11, Windows 10 is good enough. I put the change to Linux on hold until after Windows 10 extended support ends in October next year.

I should really set up unattended updates on my own PC.

As for what you might have missed, as much as I hate GNOME it’s pretty solid for a casual user (especially from the Apple ecosystem). Not that it really matters. Also, you should go in and enable the firewall. Linux Mint for some reason installs with the firewall completely open by default IIRC.

I’m probably gonna go for Fedora or OpenSUSE. I like CachyOS because it’s just plug and play, but the article says that Arch derivatives tend to be insecure because they’re behind the curve on updates.

I’d rather not use an American distro but all the instructions for installing software are usually for Ubuntu/Debian, Fedora, or Arch.

The people that say this probably never upgraded from Windows 10. Nobody who uses Windows 11 likes Windows (except my friend who works in software development, I don’t know what’s going on in his head).

Time to distrohop again. Kubuntu’s been irking me for a while and that guide says it’s insecure and CachyOS (though I don’t like the default software suite) has been nice. Though I need to find an alternative distro (don’t trust Red Hat, had a bad experience with OpenSUSE, don’t have the patience to learn Arch).

And who TF encrypts their laptop with RSA 4096.

In theory. In practice being free to use, share, modify, and redistribute it makes it in practice “free as in beer”. I am aware that projects are technically allowed to charge money for an iso file and the like.

I could never go back to an immutable distro like Windows. I want to be able to uninstall critical system programs and be able to update without rebooting.

My priority in what I use is for it to work out-of-the-box, be secure, and not get in my way. For security reasons I do support the concept of 100% open-source purity (though I’m much softer on or even opposed to the “free” part of FOSS), but I’m not prepared to sacrifice convenience for that cause.