All I want my OS to do is hold my files, execute my programs and stay the hell out of my way.
But distro choice matters for this. I’d like to execute my programs. Preferably up to date ones that get updates as soon as features and fixes are available not only once a year. So that immediately eliminates all versioned distros for example. Distros also have different software availability in official repos and differ in how hard it is to install something that’s not in official repos.
All popular, general purpose distros will work mostly the same, but there are differences that are worth discussing.
When I started using Linux I distro hopped a lot and ultimately settled on my distro of choice because it is the most out of my way I’ve used and all the others I’ve tried eventually annoyed me with one thing or another.
That can be nice, but if I actually care about new features in a program Im compiling the RC manually. Otherwise its just more frequent 50GB downloads for some imperceptible incremental change to CUPS and Libre Office.
but if I actually care about new features in a program Im compiling the RC manually
That’s actually one of the reasons I switched and settled on arch. Not only do you get latest upstream binary versions, but building stuff is easier without the need to hunt down all dev package versions and a lot of packages have their git versions in AUR. Pull in all latest commits, build and install with just a single command!
Otherwise its just more frequent 50GB downloads for some imperceptible incremental change to CUPS and Libre Office.
Well I have no idea what kind of Libreoffice you’ve been installing lmao. I likely spend more bandwidth looking at memes and shitposts and youtube per day than a single weekly update.
But distro choice matters for this. I’d like to execute my programs. Preferably up to date ones that get updates as soon as features and fixes are available not only once a year. So that immediately eliminates all versioned distros for example. Distros also have different software availability in official repos and differ in how hard it is to install something that’s not in official repos.
All popular, general purpose distros will work mostly the same, but there are differences that are worth discussing.
When I started using Linux I distro hopped a lot and ultimately settled on my distro of choice because it is the most out of my way I’ve used and all the others I’ve tried eventually annoyed me with one thing or another.
That can be nice, but if I actually care about new features in a program Im compiling the RC manually. Otherwise its just more frequent 50GB downloads for some imperceptible incremental change to CUPS and Libre Office.
That’s actually one of the reasons I switched and settled on arch. Not only do you get latest upstream binary versions, but building stuff is easier without the need to hunt down all dev package versions and a lot of packages have their git versions in AUR. Pull in all latest commits, build and install with just a single command!
Well I have no idea what kind of Libreoffice you’ve been installing lmao. I likely spend more bandwidth looking at memes and shitposts and youtube per day than a single weekly update.