Re:Apple announces ‘One More Thing’ event for November 10th
by coolspot on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:01PM
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Community size is good approximation and that is what drives features and your ability to find solution to a problem quckly.
I would say top desktop distros (from most popular to least) are: Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Mint.
Anything outside of this list is for tinkers who are not easily frustrated with issues.
Re:Apple announces ‘One More Thing’ event for November 10th
by klodolph on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:07PM
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Yes, and I’d say more than that—tinkers who are specifically interested in tinkering with Linux desktop administration.
I’ll do a ridiculous amount of work on some hobby project, but if a system update breaks my WiFi adapter, then I’m tinkering around and facing frustrating issues with WiFi drivers, which sucks, when I really want to be tinkering around and facing frustrating issues with my hobby project, which is awesome.
It’s like: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/asfgcj/bad_screen...
Same reason I switched to AMD GPUs. Getting the Nvidia cards working on Linux is just a distraction from whatever I really want to do.
A lot of people into Linux seem to go through a phase where they try out a rolling release distro like Arch or Gentoo, and then after a couple years get sick of dealing with broken systems & switch to something more stable like Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/Mint/etc. As I get older, the amount of system administration and customization of my system that I want to do is dropping rapidly. I barely even change the desktop wallpaper any more.