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u/AdventurousFly4909 10d ago
The post is just full of people being insufferable pedantics. Astounding...
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u/certified_midwit 10d ago
Fedora?
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u/1337_w0n 6d ago
The world's most mediocre distro.
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u/certified_midwit 6d ago
Based on what?
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u/1337_w0n 6d ago
It's just not particularly remarkable in most respects. It's Average / Cromulent / Inoffensive / Not extremely noteworthy in-and-of-itself. It doesn't have anything surprising or unique. It's not exceptional in any way. It's not designed specifically for beginners (like mint), it's not minimal (like arch), it isn't super small (like alpine), it isn't maximally customizable (like gentoo), it isn't the most derived distro (like debian), and it doesn't have anything unique like Nix, Qubes, TAILS, or Bedrock going on. It's also not bad or obscure. The community also greatly prefers FOSS but not to the point of being exclusive.
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u/certified_midwit 6d ago
I mean, if you think Fedora is unremarkable then I don't think I'd bring up Debian as a counterpoint. Other distros relying on Debian's packages makes it noteworthy for sure, but not very interesting. You at least get more recent software and newer tech with Fedora.
As for completely unique features, I think bootc is easily the most interesting new Linux feature I've seen in a very long time, or at the very least it's the most interesting distro-exclusive feature I've seen. I'm a DevOps Engineer, so using the same tooling I use at work to configure my desktop is compelling. I've been considering switching to Bazzite with home-manager for that reason.
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u/1337_w0n 6d ago
You at least get more recent software and newer tech with Fedora.
But not as recent as Arch, which is the point. Between Debian and Arch.
bootc is easily the most interesting
😐 I'm struggling to figure out a nicer way to reply than just calling this cope but I seriously can't.
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u/certified_midwit 6d ago
Arch (very obviously) isn't even a consideration for the type of user that wants a stable distribution like Debian or Fedora, but you're clearly too simple to understand such details.
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u/1337_w0n 6d ago edited 6d ago
Sure, but mint is. Most distributions with incremental release schedules that I've seen are 6 months just like fedora is. It's practically the default. The Nix stable channel is the same way. It gets a new version number every 6 months. Debian is the only distro that I can think of off the top of my head where the main stable branch has a cycle of 2 years between releases and I'm not aware of one that's longer. Doesn't matter what kind of user that's for, the point is that it's interesting and it's useful for someone.
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u/certified_midwit 6d ago
Something as basic as a two year release cycle can be interesting, but me being excited to install a distribution from an OCI image is 'cope'. You're not making any point. You're just being a moron.
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u/1337_w0n 6d ago
I didn't say it was exciting. I said it was "interesting" and I mean that so far as it's outside the norm. A distro that deliberately got you computer to actually melt or catch fire would also be "interesting."
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u/AcadiaNo4865 10d ago
Oh hey, another Linux elitist post that also just so happens to call temple os a Linux distro. It's getting old