Linux Distros in March 2025: Here Comes A New Challenger!
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It crushes me, CRUSHES ME, that the wretched Fedora beats my beloved openSUSE Tumbleweed in popularity! Why, oh why!??!
Seriously though, why do people prefer Fedora? I used it for 2 years and was very, very happy after switching my daily driver to Tumbleweed. It felt faster, had better repos, defaults, stability, etc. — aaaaaand it's rolling release, which is so much easier (ironically) from a stability perspective (every, EVERY, Fedora release something would break for me, gosh-darn-it). I just don't get it; am I the only one experiencing this?
My 2 cents. I started with Bazzite and switched to Fedora after some things broke. Fedora works for my use case and I don't see any reason to switch further. Even upgrading from 40 to 41 worked without hickups.
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It crushes me, CRUSHES ME, that the wretched Fedora beats my beloved openSUSE Tumbleweed in popularity! Why, oh why!??!
Seriously though, why do people prefer Fedora? I used it for 2 years and was very, very happy after switching my daily driver to Tumbleweed. It felt faster, had better repos, defaults, stability, etc. — aaaaaand it's rolling release, which is so much easier (ironically) from a stability perspective (every, EVERY, Fedora release something would break for me, gosh-darn-it). I just don't get it; am I the only one experiencing this?
I like Fedora because it’s a very forward focused distro, pushing things like Wayland and btrfs instead of clinging or dragging their feet like some other distros. I used OpenSUsE on my desktop towards the very end of my time with KDE but when I decided to switch to Gnome I stuck with fedora since it was what I had been using on my laptop for a while.
I will concede I rarely had a clean upgrade when new releases of fedora came out, but since I switched to silverblue that’s a thing of the past
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It crushes me, CRUSHES ME, that the wretched Fedora beats my beloved openSUSE Tumbleweed in popularity! Why, oh why!??!
Seriously though, why do people prefer Fedora? I used it for 2 years and was very, very happy after switching my daily driver to Tumbleweed. It felt faster, had better repos, defaults, stability, etc. — aaaaaand it's rolling release, which is so much easier (ironically) from a stability perspective (every, EVERY, Fedora release something would break for me, gosh-darn-it). I just don't get it; am I the only one experiencing this?
I tried openSUSE a few months back because I wanted to be more closely associated with SUSE than Red Hat (I had to update to a new RHEL release at work about a year ago and really hated some of the shit they were pulling).
Here's a list of issues I had:
- Was forced to not encrypt my system because for some reason the unlock screen rarely recognized my keyboard was connected and I couldn't input the password. I would have to turn on the computer, then reboot at least once to get it to work.
- The absolute confusion surrounding YaST when I tried it out. The community made it sound like the best thing about openSUSE, but also don't use it because it's terrible. Apparently it's being depreciated now. Don't want to learn an entire system just for it to be removed.
- I didn't experience any issues with this but it makes me nervous: Rolling Release + Required (for me) Community Repos. Meanwhile the standard release is slower than Fedora
- This one is a big "first world problem" but it really annoyed me. zypper, it's one of the longest package manager names, and i can't tab to autocomplete because there are other packages with similar names.
Now, all of these I problems I could probably fix. But it just wasn't really worth the effort when my main issue was: "The downstream company associated with my Distro did some dumb shit that doesn't really impact my system."
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My 2 cents. I started with Bazzite and switched to Fedora after some things broke. Fedora works for my use case and I don't see any reason to switch further. Even upgrading from 40 to 41 worked without hickups.
I'm surprised bazzite broke
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I was about to say "what article?" because this is just an image post, but then I opened this in the web ui and apparently there's a linked post that my client isn't showing!
Very interesting! Thank you for mentioning this! I suppose including a link to the article in the main body would help alleviate this issue.
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Very interesting! Thank you for mentioning this! I suppose including a link to the article in the main body would help alleviate this issue.
Na don't worry, I raised an issue and the developer confirmed it was a bug, so you did everything right, no need to post the link twice!
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Sooo... The author mentions that Manjaro fucked up, but I'm not sure what they're referring to...?
I mean, like... To which Manjaro fuckup are they referring?
https://manjarno.pages.dev/
Manjaro's Pamac took AUR down twice, also their website had its SSL certs expire 4 times -
Author's disclaimer:
"Flatpak is NOT a distro, but that’s what Steam reports when it’s running on Flatpak, and Flatpak being distro independent we report it as a separate environment, if that makes sense. Feel free to ignore it if you wish."
It's interesting and kinda cool that you can't tell what distro it's running on when using Flatpak. I would have thought that there's some way to find out (it would be important for fixing bugs, I guess?)
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https://manjarno.pages.dev/
Manjaro's Pamac took AUR down twice, also their website had its SSL certs expire 4 timesYes, I'm on staff with Arch. I'm very aware of all of these. That's like, one of my favorite pages to link to. The fact that I'm aware of these is the whole point of my comment.
I said:
To which Manjaro fuckup are they referring?
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It's interesting and kinda cool that you can't tell what distro it's running on when using Flatpak. I would have thought that there's some way to find out (it would be important for fixing bugs, I guess?)
it would be important for fixing bugs, I guess?
I think this is where the sandbox~y nature of Flatpak comes in. It doesn't really care for the distro-environment, because it creates its own distro-agnostic one; ensuring that software continues to work regardless of the shit-show going on elsewhere.
It is for this and other reasons that some developers vouch for Flatpak.
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