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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Moving to Fedora? How stable is it? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 hours ago by VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I am currently running Xubuntu on all my systems but there are so many things that feel rather unstable/buggy - I am sure it is not all Xubuntus/Xfce's fault, but my knowledge is limited so I just attribute it to that.

Therefore, I am currently considering switching to Fedora. I feel like it is time trying out a new desktop (KDE) and a more up to date kernel. I am not entirely sure what I am hoping from this post, but maybe a "yea, it is worth it" would ease my mind a bit.

Also, I am a bit unsure how to easily move between them (programs and data).

To name a few of the bugs I encountered in the past:

When connecting screens, quite often the created profile is ignored, screens get disabled, overlapped, ... By applying the profile multiple times eventually you can overcome this issue
Dell specific: Webcam does not work, system sometimes freezes after closing the laptop lid even if sleep mode is deactivated
Certain shortcuts are bugged (WIN+Left works, WIN+Right doesn't. When you reset WIN+Right, it works until the next restart)

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[–] galaxy_nova@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

If you want stable and can deal with the downsides honestly I suggest immutable distros. Otherwise Fedora is pretty reasonably stable for a pretty up to date distro and also has decent community support which is underrated. If your drive(s) are setup for it it’s pretty easy to distro hop anyways so it’s worth a shot

[–] VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What do you mean by

If your drive(s) are setup for it it’s pretty easy to distro hop anyways so it’s worth a shot

[–] Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I think he means if you’ve set up your partitions where only the core OS is on root, it’s easier to distro hop and point your new os to your home folder. There are partition strategies that make distro hopping easy.

[–] galaxy_nova@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago

Yep precisely this

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 7 hours ago

Fedora has two immutable distros KDE (Kinoite) and GNOME (Silverblue) and both are excellent and very stable.