I’ve used Manjaro daily for 8 years ans I haven’t been able to fault them. I now also have an EndeavourOS system and it’s also brilliant even though i don’t like having updates that frequently.
They’re both really good, pick one and don’t look back.
I did read everything and I appreciate your writing! I might give Fedora another try at some point but I’ve stopped distro-hopping for a while now. Manjaro on my laptop for 7 years, Debian on servers, I’m a happy man.
I got confused with CentOS changes in 2000: https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/
It eroded my trust with anything Red Hat-related. And the acquisition by IBM in 2019 had already damaged its image.
Last time I tried Fedora (around last year), anything installed via the “software” app in GNOME defaulted to a flatpak install.
Thanks for the additional context. I may have misunderstood the announcement 5 years ago as I remember reacting very negatively to that news. Are they still defaulting to flatpak for new apps?
My experience with fedora was the opposite of robust. I’ve tried multiple times over the last decades, my last experience is fairly recent (a couple of years ago) but always disappointing: hardware issues, minor but annoying bugs, etc.
And KDE Plasma has always been neglected by the core team. So clearly not the right distribution for OP.
You’re looking for stability and KDE Plasma. Fedora doesn’t seem to be the right candidate.
Arch Linux (or Endeavour / Manjaro), or OpenSUSE are better candidate.
KDE Plasma with default settings as well.
I’ve always taken for granted all Garmin watches had equivalent battery life, good to know.
All I can say is that the heart sensor is good enough for my usage (running, cycling, sleep monitoring).
Mine is a Venu 2, 3 years old, and it lasts 11 to 12 days. I record activities 3 times a week only though.
I have a Garmin watch and I can’t see any benefit for my usage from an Apple watch. Quick reminder that Garmin watches have 10/15 days battery life and decent privacy 😀.
I’m always surprised by that kind of statements. I had more to tinker with Fedora than Arch, by a huge margin.
The first one stopped booting. The second one decides to reboot after 1/2 minutes and doesn’t stop.
If only my 2 Kindles had lasted more than a year…
I don’t recall anything related to accepting warnings or changing system time but I may have missed it.
I don’t think openSUSE markets itself properly. I can’t believe EU_OS picked Fedora instead. That makes 0 sense.
I used to hop distributions in my youth, between 2000 and 2019. I have settled on Manjaro and never looked back.
As of today, my desktop works perfectly and I have not seen any stability issues.
I am considering testing openSUSE Slowroll in the coming months but not on my main computer. What’s holding me back is that I can’t see any momentum behind Slowroll. I have no clue if the solution will be supported for a long period. I’d like to have more guarantees than what is on openSUSE website.
I’m too old for that. I’m running a fairly recent laptop - 4 years old. It’s not a beast but largely enough for my usage. Not enough for Gentoo though!
I love Debian. Debian is king, Debian is life! However on my desktop I prefer a semi-rolling release distribution.
J’ai bien bataillé avant de comprendre qu’ils supportaient aléatoirement Firefox.