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Debian vs Fedora
| I would sicerely choose Fedora. Easier to set up and you probably cannot f it up. But if you go with Debian, just don't go with stable, old AF packages.
Also, if you are open and like to headbutt into more complicated stuff, give arch a shot.
| >>143746
I have Ubuntu right now because I realized I needed to have a Linux system already installed in order to get Debian.
I'm having second thoughts on Debian because I heard it works best as a server OS.
As for Fedora, I was just about to install it but before I did I wanted to configure .NET Core for Ubuntu.
I realized I needed to install package after package of dependencies for libraries which I'm doing one by one via terminal. Would this be the same for Fedora?
| GuixSD, because you can easily get completely separate environments for each project. This allows conflicting dependencies to be separated. They also have the latest version of anything packaged, and the whole distribution from the init to the package manager can be live edited in scheme.
| I would say that I find Debian easier to setup than Fedora. Things break a lot less. Why Fedora is with newer packages is because it literally is the 'testing' release for RH. In my laptop I also have Debian stable, people feel incredulous when I answer their question what distro it is. True a lot of things arr not the latest versions, but I do not look for the most recent rather than what will surely work.
| debian
| I prefer Debian Testing without Systemd but I don't think it matters too much. As long as the distro has a text editor you should be good.
| Fedora for stability, debian for packages
| I'd recommend LMDE, actually, which is just a Minty fresh Debian. You get a few convenient Mint utils, but also customization.
| >>143675
KDE neon. It's debianoid and you have a powerful file manager (dolphin, text editor (Kate), terminal emulator (konsole) and ice (kdevelop), which are pretty customizeable and integrated into each other.
| Arch
Or Debian, fine too
| Arch is a rolling release. I stay away from these, being an always moving target.
Something that I have come to appreciate is that in software, fixed release points are a good thing in the long run. I might be using some old program, mine or someone else's, and I know that it works under debian 7 but not in 8 and 9. It is important to be precise in the real world and out of the 'look at the latest and greatest' workbench.
| Actually, both. Runned debian, ubuntu, fedora, gentoo as my os many times, and still prefer linux as my working os. Just stick with what you find clicking for you. For me it was Xubuntu as desktop at work and a Fedora server with LXDE at home.
| >>149224
Well, in most distros you're free only to install security related updates. Other Updates usually are optional. I have two devices with the same distro: a laptop and a desktop. My desktop is always uptodate, my laptop follows a month or two for the sake of reliability and stability. Works pretty gold that way.
| >>149419
I guess it is a matter of viewponts. I have unified the environment of work and personal desktop/laptop, in the sense that in my laptop I have the same distro and version that I build my servers with. The server installs last for years. It is very handy to transfer stuff to my laptop and vice versa for testing or changing. Or when something is not right to see whether it happens elsewhere too or it is something local. The immutability of freezepoints is exactly what I like
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| Which is best distro for programming workstation?