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installs fedora
does not update for several years
"fedora is the most stable distro ever"

@nixCraft rolling release is unstable by definition

@nixCraft hot take: Arch is great if you don't know about Void which is like Arch but better.

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That's why even me as a Linux fan, don't recommend Arch to new users.

Mint is much simpler and more friendly for them (while they can choose Arch after getting familiar to Linux).

@nixCraft Decades ago I used to enjoy tinkering with my OS (both Linux and Windows). These days I want my OS to just work so I can do what I need to do on my computer without delays. Debian and Linux Mint both meet that requirement for me.

@nixCraft Yep, that was me. And then I switched to fedora. My old MacBook Air I got for 150€ is used as travel laptop, to have something for emergencies if some server goes down while traveling and also not being afraid of it getting stolen. So yes, I upgrade only very occasionally and just want to hit that update button and be done with it.

@nixCraft All you need to know is when it is safe to shutdown your pc. I recently-ish had a critical package get replaced with basically the same one under a different name. Installing that replacement meant that I needed to temporarily uninstall a few packages that had dependencies with the previous package, install the new named package and then reinstall all the packages that had dependencies with that package and they worked fine afterward. (Btw)

@nixCraft Arch is too much work. I already have a job, thanks. I run Debian now instead - Life is bliss