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by rantanplan 3352 days ago
A Fedora "leap" release, same as with OpenSUSE Leap, with a 3 year support cycle would be the ultimate system for me.

I've been using Fedora for the last 7-8 years, but I have to upgrade every 13-14 months or so. And CentOS is not suited for a modern development/workstation environment.
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lima 3352 days ago
I like it. Fedora upgrades are mostly painless and 3 year support cycles means more outdated software.
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rantanplan 3352 days ago
Yes I like it too, but think farther ahead.

Why is Ubuntu the defacto supported Linux distro? Why is,quite often, steam so difficult to install, while it's a breeze to install on Ubuntu?

You can't expect people to consider you as a legitimate target if you're constantly moving :(

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kirushik 3352 days ago
Why not OpenSUSE Leap then?
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rantanplan 3352 days ago
As an experiment I have OpenSUSE leap on my workstation(while Fedora on my laptop).

I can't say bad things about it, except that it's quite often that you can't find packages for various applications. A random example would be spotify, that was one of my last adventures to make it work(I got tired and gave up after a while).

And Fedora/RH has a lot more momentum in general and you can be certain that it will be around for as long as Linux is a thing I guess :)

Suse has gone through various struggles and it doesn't inspire much confidence to me anymore.

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