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I've been using Debian-based distros most of my adult Linux life, but I read recently that KDE has a better experience on Fedora than Kubuntu, so I want to try it out.

I already know that I won't be able to use apt, but what other differences should I expect with fedora?

The do not have an LTS release? What is upgrading like? When should you upgrade if you want stability?

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[โ€“] kabe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

๐Ÿ’ฏ this.

I've tried Fedora multiple times and to be honest I've always found it to be a pain in the ass. The out of the box experience is also severely lacking for the average user who just wants a modern operating system with all the apps and codecs pre installed and ready to go.

These days, any laptop or desktop machine in my house gets Bluefin, while gaming/media devices get Bazzite.

[โ€“] glitching@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

not this. you need to reboot every time to get new shit. that's antithetical to how I've used desktopS (plural, yo) since the early aughts. my shit gets suspended in the evening and woken in the morning with all apps and windows how I left them. rebooting and breaking my flow makes this thing is a non-starter.

[โ€“] kabe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, are you so desperate to get system updates that you can't manually restart, say, every few days?

You should be rebooting every time you get a kernel update, anyway.

[โ€“] glitching@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

who's "desperate"? I don't wanna reboot to get new package updates. that's a stupid concept that was done with in like Windows 98 days. I don't reboot my desktop or my phone for weeks, that's hella comfortable and I'm not going back from that.

if the crowd pushing the immutable stack would lead with that, or at very least mention it, I'd keep shtum.

[โ€“] kabe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

All the GUI and homebrew apps can be updated in-session; it's just the system side of things that needs a reboot after updating. Like your smartphone, the underlying system doesn't need updating on a daily basis.

I get it - your personal habits don't jive with the immutable paradigm. But for the average user, I'd say it's not a major issue.