• mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    9 months ago

    Ubuntu Repos: Sometimes runs out of food or accidentally spills two trays together

    Fedora Repos: New plates every week

    Debian Repos: Same 3 meals that are 5 star rated

    Arch Repos: A machine gun that continuously fires pulverized food at your mouth

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        I was going to say the same thing. Almost daily updates, and never a crash or a lockup after a new update.

        I’m honestly surprised more people don’t use Fedora. (I’m using the KDE spin in case that matters to anyone.)

        • baseless_discourse@mander.xyz
          1·
          9 months ago

          I do believe fedora is not as beginner friendly as mint or ubuntu, mainly in installer, nvidia driver installation, and codecs. You also need a third party app (tweak) to manage startup applications.

          There is also not enough resource about the distro, as most resource is written for ubuntu. This can be another point of frustration for beginners.

          Also gnome store is super slow and refreshes a lot, which is not a great introduction to linux.

          But I do believe it is a great distro for people’s first distro-hop.

          • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
            2·
            9 months ago

            I don’t mean to be argumentative, but I don’t believe you’re correct on several points.

            For example, if you’re using the KDE version you don’t have to worry about the Gnome store being slow. And the KDE version comes with its own app for managing startup applications, so no third party app is needed.

            As far as ease of use of install, as long as you’re not trying to repartition drives and you’re taking all the defaults it installs really easily, and all you have to do is click a checkbox for third party drivers and that gets the Nvidia and codecs stuff installed.

            I too started on a Ubuntu and then moved over the Fedora, and it seems like it has much better hardware support, especially for older hardware. I don’t know if that’s just IBM’s influence or what, as I don’t track the day-to-day of the two different distributions.

  • Delta_44@lemmy.world
    27·
    9 months ago

    Windows: 1GB of download, one bug fix or two. Linux: 20MB, total refactor or some major feature

  • Gork@lemm.ee
    26·
    9 months ago

    I would like the rice and bean update but not the other identical rice and bean plate that is rotated 180 degrees.

  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    171·
    9 months ago

    The dopamine from updates is real. After using an arch based distro for awhile, I switched to one with weekly updates instead. I was surprised by how disappointing it was to check for updates and not have any available.

  • HouseWolf@lemm.ee
    151·
    9 months ago

    The updates were never the issue, It was having them get in the way of what you were currently doing.

    I would say I don’t remember updates bothering me as much back on Windows 7? I don’t recall them suddenly shutting down my computer when I was in the middle of a game or work, Only to fail and hold my PC hostage for half an hour…

    • xradeon@lemmy.one
      3·
      9 months ago

      Make sure the “Get the latest updates as soon as they’re available” is off. I think it’s off by default. That setting will reboot your computer no matter what as soon as the update is done installing.

      • baseless_discourse@mander.xyz
        2·
        9 months ago

        Until you decide to make any changes, and discover that rpm-ostree refuse to terminate current upgrade. rpm-ostree cancel just triggers refresh-md, cancel again, and upgrade will be back. It is like fighting a hydra.

        After waiting an hour to finish upgrade in the background, then we realized any operation will take like ten to twenty mins to complete. Also rebooting takes five minutes…

        I use rpm-ostree, BTW.

  • Hyperreality@kbin.social
    81·
    9 months ago

    This isn’t fair.

    There’s a bug in one of the most recent security updates on windows, something to do with the size of the recovery partition, so at the moment plenty of windows users aren’t updating or failing to update, and it’s not as if windows has fixed it yet either so most users are stuck waiting on it.

    In other words: sometimes far too many updates, sometimes not enough (timely) updates, often broken updates.

    • Rhaedas@kbin.social
      3·
      9 months ago

      I have a laptop that’s suffered from that for a while now, so it’s not just one update but a trend. Tried a number of things from clearing space to even a manual download on a USB to force it. It always reverts back to churning away trying to complete the update, restarting, and then reversing it. The irony is the laptop works fine until it comes time for it to check again, then repeat ad nauseam.

    • naeap@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      9 months ago

      What version(s) of Windows are affected?

      Didn’t hear it it - and seldomly booting my windows…

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    Chrome is the one I see all the freakin time on Linux … sometimes it’s once a week but it’s more like every two weeks they completely update the entire software, get rid of the old and install a new version. It wouldn’t be a big deal but if you’ve tweaked any changes with one version, they get wiped everytime which forces everyone to stick to the software and never change it ever at all.

    For the record, I use Firefox and only keep Chrome if I need the browser for any reason … like casting.