Eh, Windows, even when left isolated from the network, no updates, no installations, just normal usage, definitely degrades in performance over time. I know because I work with machines which use windows on their HMIs (terrible choice) and I see it happening.
I’ve heard so many good things about fedora now. My “it just works” desktop distro that I have been using in the past has been Debian testing (because debian stable packages are often so old many pieces of software can’t run on the system because the minimum version of some dependencies are too high). Being on testing has some disadvantages, though and I remember that somehow apt uninstalled coreutils and some other important packages (I have no idea how that happened), which meant I needed to reinstall the system, and #debian on IRC simply told me I shouldn’t be on testing if I’m not fine with some bugs. It is also overall feels less polished than stable.
Maybe I Fedora is more appropriate for me. I’ve stuck to Debian, because apt is the package manager I’m most familiar (and thus more comfortable) with, but maybe dnf will be easy to pickup.
Fedora is rock solid. I’ve had two consecutive laptops running it for … I don’t know, close to a decade? Never had any degradation.
Simply because software doesn’t degrade performancewise. It gets better on a new machine.
Unless someone goes like “Sure, users probably never need this heavy feature but let’s bundle it anyway because fuck them!”
Eh, Windows, even when left isolated from the network, no updates, no installations, just normal usage, definitely degrades in performance over time. I know because I work with machines which use windows on their HMIs (terrible choice) and I see it happening.
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Exactly. Usually it’s uncleaned clutter accumulating and filling swap. Linux, BSD, IRIX etc. are not affected by this.
In some cases it’s hardware which would affect other OSs aswell.
I’ve heard so many good things about fedora now. My “it just works” desktop distro that I have been using in the past has been Debian testing (because debian stable packages are often so old many pieces of software can’t run on the system because the minimum version of some dependencies are too high). Being on testing has some disadvantages, though and I remember that somehow apt uninstalled
coreutilsand some other important packages (I have no idea how that happened), which meant I needed to reinstall the system, and #debian on IRC simply told me I shouldn’t be on testing if I’m not fine with some bugs. It is also overall feels less polished than stable.Maybe I Fedora is more appropriate for me. I’ve stuck to Debian, because
aptis the package manager I’m most familiar (and thus more comfortable) with, but maybednfwill be easy to pickup.Dnf is good, just very slow at updating repositories
isn’t Fedora heading forward to become a garbage distro? saw something from Chris Titus about them closing source
They are not, Fedora will always be a libre operating system.