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what about Fedora workstation for the old-lady use case? I'm about to give my 12 year old non-technical daughter a linux laptop, and wondering on distro. I'm th
by bradwood 4y ago
what about Fedora workstation for the old-lady use case? I'm about to give my 12 year old non-technical daughter a linux laptop, and wondering on distro. I'm thinking Fedora but open to be convinced otherwise?
- chungy 4y agoPick something you're willing to maintain. Stable releases tend to reduce maintenance and surprises.
- ronjouch 4y agoFor your daughter tinkering with a distro, yeah Fedora sounds awesome :) For the old ladies, no: Fedora has a short release cycle, and no LTS; not great for maximal stability. "a version of Fedora is usually supported for at least 13 months" ( https://endoflife.date/fedora https://endoflife.date/fedora ), while Debian is security-supported at least 5 years! ( https://endoflife.date/debian https://endoflife.date/debian ) Debian's whole project architecture & release cycle is built towards being stable bedrock, I see virtually no reason to use anything else if you aim at max. stability and don't care about running old (but still secure!) software.
- LBJsPNS 4y agoMX. Fast. Stable as a rock.