| I've been using Debian Stretch (which was previously Debian Testing) for the last 2 years. I didn't ever have a single problem. But as the months passed I kept getting miffed about old packages. Yes, there are backports etc, but it just didn't feel current enough. I loved the stability though. When the difference in Firefox versions got to 50 vs 54, and I had written myself a custom bash script to keep Firefox updated, I went looking... I've been running F26 since the early alpha days, and I have to say that I haven't had a single problem in that whole time. I've been running it on my brand new i7 desktop machine as well as a 7 year old HP laptop. Both have been superb. Performance of Gnome 3.24 is great. Stability of the platform as a whole is rock solid. In fact, the only issue I have come across is with MakeMKV (which I have written about elsewhere). Other than that, all of my use cases have been rock solid. For reference, they include: * Firefox (with Lastpass, uBlock origin, HTTPS everywhere, privacy badger add-ons) * Evolution (for email, contacts, and calendar) * taskwarrior * ledger (with some hledger experimentation) * Gnucash * MakeMKV (for creating MKV files for my LibreElec HTPC) * Shotwell (for my 15,000 file photo library) * Quodlibet (for my 140GB music library - including a growing FLAC library) * vim (for all my writing) * git (for my writing and my code) * Krita (with a Wacom tablet for illustrations for some book ideas I have) * gimp (for image editing. e.g. I mocked up a photo of my house with how it might look with a grape vine covered pergola) * Libreoffice (including my wife using it for her study, opening and editing MS Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files from the Uni) * Ardour & Calf Plugins for music recording. I also experimented with BitWig, which was fantastic, but I prefer to support OSS. * Golang (1.8, for my own personal development projects) * Postgres (for same) * qemu and virt-manager (for virtual machines) I was a Microsoft .NET developer for almost 20 years. I've been a Linux user in my own time for a bit over 5 years. I'm now happy to say that I use Linux 100% for every single computer related task I have, and I couldn't be happier. So far, the move to F26 has been fantastic, and it gets my highest recommendation to anyone else that might be considering it. P.S. I also happily use F26 for the occasional 0AD game :) |