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EU OS: Which Linux Distribution fits Europe best? (blog.riemann.cc)

submitted 1 week ago by Limerance@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] hakaimo@lemmy.keimai.space 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well, I prefer Arch, but a major factor in that preference is the fact that some software I rely on for my work is very hard to find on other distributions and that creates unnecessary hassle for me.

Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu are both pretty solid choices for a base OS, but Fedora might be more robust in the long run.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fedora is not really a community distro, the way Debian is.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fedora is also one of the most US-cocksucking distros of the bunch, what with being RedHat-derivative.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

It's not a Red Hat derivative. It's upstream of Red Hat.

In a way Fedora is like interim Ubuntu releases, CentOS Stream is like LTS Ubuntu releases, and RHEL is like Ubuntu Pro. So if you want to stay away from a US company, Fedora isn't a great idea.

[–] Limerance@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What software for example?

[–] hakaimo@lemmy.keimai.space 2 points 1 week ago

The main example I'm thinking of is SageMath, which is available in the default Pacman repositories but is not maintained as a package in Debian or Fedora.

You can build it from scratch, and I've done this before on Fedora systems, but it's much easier to install the latest version with a single command.