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Great experience with Wayland on Nvidia with GNOME 44
  • Debian is a great distro itself. I just happen to love Fedora and appreciate their stability (meaning, the software usually works very well)

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    Great experience with Wayland on Nvidia with GNOME 44
  • Let me suggest you to switch to Fedora, Arch or Opensuse. Debian Sid may have problems, and stable is simply too slow for how fast Nvidia is moving. My suggestion is to use Fedora or Arch, or Opensuse, with newer packages. Everything was super smooth on Fedora.

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    SELinux and confined users, make the Linux Desktop more secure
  • For sure. I believe Debian's AppArmor integration is a little bit of an afterthought and there's lots of patches missing as Canonical likes to keep many improvements downstream.

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    [proprietary] Professional DAW 'Studio One' is Now on Linux (Public Beta)
  • Is LMMS really functional? I thought only Ardour could be used for serious audio production on the FOSS world.

    Of course there's still Reaper and Bitwig, but those are not FOSS.

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    Met a nice lady at the grocery store
  • So does mine. I installed Fedora on an old, 4GB laptop connected to a monitor for her to watch Netflix and TV on her bed. We literally reused a laptop from 2013, an old 900p monitor and a VGA cable + a cheap, poor quality Amazon speaker I was not using at all. I'm really happy with how everything turned out.

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    Met a nice lady at the grocery store
  • I mean, it could be possible that the box of the mouse said something like kernel 2.6+. Considering that is older than 2011, OP's answer was absolutely spot on.

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  • Hi all,

    I'm currently a happy Fedora user, but I'm attracted to the Debian world because of the sane choices Debian has mostly always taken. It's a phenomenal distro, with a lot of support (both internla and from 3rd parties), and that follows some of the principles I care about. It has a long support period, it's less opinionated than other distros, has a huge ecosystem and it's community-run. Also, it's an excellent distro for almost all use-cases: IoT, Server and Workstation.

    I love Fedora, but it's not exactly an LTS release, so I have to jump ship to CentOS whenever I need something more stable. Not that I dislike that heavily, though, but I'd like to try the Debian world.

    I am not opting for Ubuntu because the snapization of the distro, which is becoming more dependent on snaps as time passes. I like some stuff about PopOS, but some other stuff I don't. If I were to choose vanilla Debian, which one should I pick to be the most similar to Fedora?

    • Stable
    • Testing
    • Unstable (Sid)

    I've read that Stable = CentOS, Testing = Fedora, Unstable = Rawhide/Arch. However, during the freeze period, neither Testing nor Unstable will actually behave like that at all. How long is that freeze period and how much of a big deal is it?

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