I finally burned a couple of GNU+Linux installer ISOs to DVD-R, so now I can send S her box (includes flash drive with Ventoy and about five ISOs, a !RasPi Zero 2 kit, a keyboard and mouse for it, and those two DVDs ... #Fedora and #PCLinuxOS; I downloaded #Ubuntu, but it is bigger than the DVD's capacity).
I upgraded my main laptop to #Fedora 38. One click in the Software Center, it downloaded everything in about 5 minutes, and the upgrade itself took around the same amount of time. Everything works after rebooting, except the Quick Settings Tweaker and Dark mode switcher extensions, which are not crucial, so I’d say it was pretty damn smooth! I’m always amazed at how simple our desktops have become these days…
@natecull#ocaml, #rust and #Haskell all have specific packages in #Fedora and #Debian to deal with #endianness so it seems to matter. Also add that according to utfcheck Debian package description UTF-16 can be encoded in big or little-endian
Yes, I can see this being annoying. #Fedora hides the non-Gnome versions, so that most people get GNOME. Since I've hated the look and feel of GNOME ever since I first encountered it, I always look for KDE or other alternative desktops.
The Debian machine is upgrading to from 9 (Stretch) to 10 (Buster). The Devuan machine is upgrading from 2.x (Ascii) to 3.x (Beowulf). After they finish, I’ll look at the #Fedora and #OpenSuse machines.
When Caldera bought Santa Cruz Operation and renamed themselves The #SCO Group ... abandoned their Linux distro and started suing Linux vendors, I moved to #Fedora.
@musicman I guess that's a measure of how slowly the enterprise community moves. Can't say when #Fedora switched entirely, but they've been using dnf for years.
@kai That could be it. I came from #Win95 to #SuSE, then #Red_Hat (this was before the #RHEL / #Fedora split), #Caldera OpenLinux, Fedora, #WinXP, #LinuxMint and others. Over the years, whenever I use a #GNOME based system, I'm soon dissatisfied, but #KDE mostly looks and works the way I expect. . I'm not saying everyone will (or should) like it.
Oldest in-service laptop was on #Funtoo ( a #Gentoo derivative ), but after a year without touching it, I am going to try #Fedora 29 #Lxde on it. 4GiB of RAM and an aftermarket SSD in this one.
This one and the newest are both Dell Inspiron fifteen inch models.
Is there a #fedora group? I'm trying to get a legacy !python application to compile on 27. I think it's getting confused about pip modules vs. yum modules, but I'm not sure.