Well i’m back to Xfce from using KDE for a while, maybe Mate is up next lol? Or I should possibly do like @ricklinux does and use rEFInd for a multi-boot.
Always returning to xfce.
I like gnome too.
And it needs to be mouse driven, since I mostly sit on the couch with the laptop next to me.
I have to stretch to reach my keyboard and i don’t like stetchiing and therefore don’t like keyboards…
I just put Fedora 33 KDE on my little work PC stick. I’m looking forward to the upgrade to 34 in a few weeks ( I really like the new application launcher) but so far, so good. I wanted something with less updates for work. Less distractions.
Extremely easy to setup. Flatpak for Joplin install was smooth. Impressive distro so far.
Fedora updates at about the same rate as Arch. I have been using as my daily for about three years and it has been very stable. The primary reason I started using it was because I work a lot with RHEL and I needed a fast track way of learning it on my own time. It installs easy, and once you have rpmfusion repos enabled you have a ton of available packages, that and there is a ton of little bits of automation and scripting that makes it hassle free. i.e. Arch twist all the knobs, Fedora sane defaults, but twist the knobs if you like.
It is hard to compare since on Fedora the packages are more granular so it looks like more updates. Generally speaking the update frequency is still quite high. Especially in the time window after a release. It does lessen over time, especially if you don’t update to the latest release.
I am pretty sure the point of using a fixed release distro was never “less updates”
The point of a snap shot release is simply a matter of stability. The new release only gets released after a variety of issues are resolved. This way you will have a serviceable OS after install. Major groups of packages don’t get full version updates. In other words gnome 3.38 is all you get on fedora33. Fedora34 will have gnome40. DE’s are the single greatest source of breakage. After the latest release updates slow down on the older release. You can essentially choose to lag behind, but I have noticed no real point in doing so outside of upgrading my server two months after release just to be sure nothung is busted.
xfce. I never have used anything else. I just like it on my Arch VM, and Manjaro installs. I got used to it when I used Linux Mint before I discovered rolling distributions.
I guess there’s really no point in me using Fedora then. Since I really don’t have any stability issues with Arch. I know they get security updates, I just assumed other updates were substantially less.
The reasons I use Fedora are primarily security and convenience related. 1) SELinux, 2) sane default install, I don’t need to tweak a whole lot, and I don’t need to install a ton of stuff outside of the initial.install, 3) commercial packages prebuilt in rpm format (printer drivers, software packaged by the developer not some random user, and 4) I work with RHEL for a living.
You don’t have to update your Arch OS every two hours, you know? You can, if you want to, but you can just as well not run pacman -Syu for a couple of weeks. As long as you update somewhat regularly, you’ll be fine. I would say, once a month or so is adequate (in order to get somewhat fresh security updates, at least), though you can certainly get away with much less than that, even.
Lol, that’s a nice one. But well, to be honest, I never tried XFCE + i3wm. Although there’s a lot of tutorial there, but still, don’t want to. Dunno why.
