Which distro? I’ve upgraded Mint on the weekend. The installer failed with an error where i couldn’t get good infos about online.
Then i just rebooted the system out of frustration. Surprisingly it seems to work fine.
Is there a distro where upgrades just work? Maybe Fedora? Or i just install arch on the system, it works great on my server for the last 10 years without reinstall.
Debian in particular is rock solid, even Debian Unstable has been very reliable for me if you want a rolling release with newer packages.
But I’ve also had very few problems with Ubuntu. My mother has used it for ten years at this point and will happily apply any dist upgrade she’s presented with, and rarely does she need support.
A pro tip is to check out the alternative desktop environments. A lot of people rightly hate Ubuntu’s awful default DE, but it’s not a core part of the distro, there are other complete desktop “flavours” available in the repositories and installers that will give you them from the start at https://ubuntu.com/desktop/flavours
(Switching an installed system from one DE to another is in principle as easy as uninstalling one desktop meta-package and installing another, but you got to make sure you get the right packages, or you might run into annoying conflicts, so I would not recommend it for a newbie)
Fedora and Arch are pretty good. The magic sauce (my guess) is that they both pretty much release just upstream software without trying to “fix” them unless things are totally broken.
Ysk, the unicode number for ™ is 0x2122. You can type any unicode hexcode on linux by pressing Ctrl+shift+u followed by typing the code then pressing enter.
While I’m here, a couple other easy and handy unicodes to remember:
en dash: – 0x2013
em dash: — 0x2014
Most people use a normal dash instead of these, but en and em dashes are technically more correct in some cases
Which distro? I’ve upgraded Mint on the weekend. The installer failed with an error where i couldn’t get good infos about online.
Then i just rebooted the system out of frustration. Surprisingly it seems to work fine.
Is there a distro where upgrades just work? Maybe Fedora? Or i just install arch on the system, it works great on my server for the last 10 years without reinstall.
Debian in particular is rock solid, even Debian Unstable has been very reliable for me if you want a rolling release with newer packages.
But I’ve also had very few problems with Ubuntu. My mother has used it for ten years at this point and will happily apply any dist upgrade she’s presented with, and rarely does she need support.
A pro tip is to check out the alternative desktop environments. A lot of people rightly hate Ubuntu’s awful default DE, but it’s not a core part of the distro, there are other complete desktop “flavours” available in the repositories and installers that will give you them from the start at https://ubuntu.com/desktop/flavours
(Switching an installed system from one DE to another is in principle as easy as uninstalling one desktop meta-package and installing another, but you got to make sure you get the right packages, or you might run into annoying conflicts, so I would not recommend it for a newbie)
Fedora and Arch are pretty good. The magic sauce (my guess) is that they both pretty much release just upstream software without trying to “fix” them unless things are totally broken.
EndeavourOS just works on my machine…
Works on my machine^tm
Ysk, the unicode number for ™ is 0x2122. You can type any unicode hexcode on linux by pressing Ctrl+shift+u followed by typing the code then pressing enter.
While I’m here, a couple other easy and handy unicodes to remember: en dash: – 0x2013 em dash: — 0x2014
Most people use a normal dash instead of these, but en and em dashes are technically more correct in some cases
Or you can do it on your phone by typing ™
Bazzite comes to mind.
Fedora also broke an update on my watch, but it backed up automatically so I reverted.
Atomic distros should be good in that respect, including atomic Fedora distributions (Silverblue/Kinoite/…)
Atomic Fedora variants. Updates literally mean replacing the system image, so there’s nothing to really go wrong.