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Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going? (discuss.online)

submitted 1 week ago by kiol@discuss.online to c/linux@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34247715

Curious on the experiences of those recently migrating to Linux from Windows 10, Intel-based MacOS, etc. How is it being on Linux? Anything surprise or frustrate you?

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[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Fedora has been rock solid. I kinda wish I didn’t have to download 300MB-1GB updates every day, but I’m glad there’s updates!

I really wish there was more cohesiveness among software, but I can’t complain when people are trying to help that along over time.

I’ve had zero issues with Wayland.

The Nobara updater is fairly unreliable, as is Discover on my plain Fedora machine. A system update will show up, but error out or hang for no reason. Updating via dnf in the terminal has had zero issues.

I really wish there was a clearer UI for choosing which source to download a given package/app from when there are multiple sources.

I kinda wish there were more UI designers working with engineers, because some of the UI I encounter is obviously built by engineers. It’s not a problem, but if I were less technologically inclined, I might’ve seen that as a barrier to committing to Linux.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

500–1,000 MB every day? That's worse than my Arch installations. I update it almost every day, each time there's like maybe 2–50 MB of updates.

It I don't update for a month or so, there's usually around 5 GB of updates.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The Nobara updater is fairly unreliable

Yeah, Its the only weak part of the entire distro, imho.

but you can run the proper updates via commandline with

sudo nobara-sync cli

its not ideal, but at least its pain free updating until they get rid of the Nobara Updater.