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What matters is getting the right distro. I've been using Fedora as my daily driver for almost 13 years. But in my current company (a big search engine company
by acatton 6y ago
What matters is getting the right distro.
I've been using Fedora as my daily driver for almost 13 years. But in my current company (a big search engine company), I was forced use a debian-based internal distro for work, and I realized why people say "linux is buggy and broken". Once a month I'm facing a pulseaudio or xorg issue which I've never had single time in my last 7 years using Fedora. Everything just worked out of the box.
I've installed Ubuntu LTS on my parents' computer 5 years ago, same. Everything was working out of the box, never had a single issue.
- snazz 6y agoI think that reflects more on your company's internal distro than Debian itself, especially since Ubuntu is itself based on Debian. I know that gLinux has some very non-standard package management stuff, so it wouldn't surprise me if that was related.
- lavp 6y agoWhat exactly is the point of running an internal distro?
- detaro 6y agoCentral place to add your own stuff and basic setup, push out customized versions of tools with less conflicts, control over what people run (e.g. if your security people or lawyers don't want some software to be ever used).
- snazz 6y agoGoogle includes their own fleet management software, a custom package management system for security (which involves getting other employees to sign off on new programs), and a few other things. Take a look at this document: https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/fleet_management_at_scale_white_paper.pdf https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/fleet_management_a...