Linux Is Best on Nostr: I am someone who used to be very pro-Debian, but since escaping that ecosystem, I ...
I am someone who used to be very pro-Debian, but since escaping that ecosystem, I have learned just how awful it was.
"sudo apt dist-upgrade" (DEB) will likely give you all sorts of trouble, while "sudo dnf upgrade --allowerasing" (RPM) will be just fine.
Even if you're not the type of individual looking to perform a full system upgrade, and you're just sticking to "sudo apt upgrade" or perhaps "sudo aptitude safe-upgrade" you're likely to run into either dependency issues or conflicts that will break things, or experience held back packages. You've likely needed to use "sudo apt install -f" or perhaps "sudo dpkg --configure -a" along with "sudo dpkg -l | grep ^..R" more times than you care to recall.
For server, DEB based distros are still a very solid system, but for a desktop, RPM based seems to be the way to go.
I kept distro hoping for over a decade. While I liked Linux, I always felt like "something" was missing, but I could never figure out what that "something" was.
Turns out, the thing, I low-key was seeking and not realizing was not having to keep tweaking or fixing my desktop computer, between updates or newly installed apps. -- I have not needed to worry about all that nonsense since moving to an RPM based distro.
#Debian #Fedora #Linux
"sudo apt dist-upgrade" (DEB) will likely give you all sorts of trouble, while "sudo dnf upgrade --allowerasing" (RPM) will be just fine.
Even if you're not the type of individual looking to perform a full system upgrade, and you're just sticking to "sudo apt upgrade" or perhaps "sudo aptitude safe-upgrade" you're likely to run into either dependency issues or conflicts that will break things, or experience held back packages. You've likely needed to use "sudo apt install -f" or perhaps "sudo dpkg --configure -a" along with "sudo dpkg -l | grep ^..R" more times than you care to recall.
For server, DEB based distros are still a very solid system, but for a desktop, RPM based seems to be the way to go.
I kept distro hoping for over a decade. While I liked Linux, I always felt like "something" was missing, but I could never figure out what that "something" was.
Turns out, the thing, I low-key was seeking and not realizing was not having to keep tweaking or fixing my desktop computer, between updates or newly installed apps. -- I have not needed to worry about all that nonsense since moving to an RPM based distro.
#Debian #Fedora #Linux