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Finally done with the distro-hop: My return to Fedora (unknownuniverse.uk)

submitted 3 days ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/linux@programming.dev

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Two years into full-time Linux and I’m finally burning the distro-hopping cycle. I fell for the Arch/AUR trap for a while, but I got tired of spending my weekends debugging file manager crashes instead of maintaining my home lab.

Switched back to Fedora, and it’s boring in exactly the way I need it to be. It’s a stable launchpad for my projects, not the project itself.

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[–] AsSaMiTa@tardigram.com 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It shows you haven't tried Void Linux. 🤪

[–] insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

OP posted to this sub with an article about void 17 days ago. OOP, sure maybe.

I'm trying Void on old hardware and it feels pretty usable. Package availability still an issue*. I've also noticed some dependencies not getting added (git not included with programming lang that needs it for its package manager, installed archive manager engrampa and it couldn't actually open zips until I added another package for that). I'll probably keep this on my old machine just for testing musl compilation.

* appimages might help, other solutions with redundancy not so much with extra downloading

[–] AsSaMiTa@tardigram.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, the installation is similar to Arch, it gives you the versatility to do an installation however you want without software blobs.

[–] insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 days ago

I like that Void seems to better handle less frequent updates than Arch, but my point is that the package system seems to be a bit of a step backwards. (which to be fair doesn't seem like anything unique to Void, optional dependencies is commonly not a thing or is inconvenient like OpenSUSE's patterns)

[–] eta@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have looked at Void a little but honestly the handling of the package manager and even it's name just throw me of for some reason. Why do you like it?

[–] AsSaMiTa@tardigram.com 2 points 3 days ago

Precisely, the package manager is one of the best things about it. Quite fast. I like it because it doesn't have systemd and it's one of the few distros left with a Unix philosophy. A very well-made distro.