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I predominately run Fedora when I use a laptop, along with Debian. I really have come to enjoy Fedora. I don't notice a ton of difference over Debian moment to
by mapgrep 6y ago
I predominately run Fedora when I use a laptop, along with Debian. I really have come to enjoy Fedora. I don't notice a ton of difference over Debian moment to moment, except perhaps you tend to have newer versions of things in the repos (like Firefox), with the flipside being, you are upgrading your distro major version much more often (and you get used to it). On the other hand there tends to be a touch more in the Debian repo and I've noticed there are some apps that support Debian packaging out of the box but not Fedora (Signal Desktop, Spotify) - for me this is less of an issue because I just make a new debian VM (I use the Qubes hypervisor, which uses Fedora for dom0 and Fedora as default in VMs).
All that said, there is no way I'd carry around a 5.5lb laptop, personally :-) Fedora seems happy with my X1 Carbon gen5 though.
- ufo 6y agoI use Flatpak to install things such as Signal and Zoom. It covers most of the situations where I'd install a deb or rpm in the past.
- twblalock 6y agoFor me, the main difference is that Fedora packages are close to the upstream code, while Debian makes heavy and sometimes controversial changes (remember Iceweasel?). In an ideal world I would use Flatpak for everything -- code direct from upstream, decoupled from the base system.
- esarbe 6y agoWe're slowly getting there.