This will completely depend on how and what is being distributed.
For example, I used to work on an app where assets (3D models, images, etc) were appropriately diff’d during updates but the binaries were not.
dallen
joined 2 years ago
Been using the flatpak, works great!
Would never touch it personally, but I found your history of Windows piracy in China very interesting!
In the US the license was always bundled with the hardware unless you build your own. I worked for my university’s computer labs IT department and was able to acquire a key that I used for about a decade. Later, also scavenged a key from an old broken laptop, back when they printed it on the bottom, for my current Windows partition. Best to avoid paying for it…
I’ve been using mostly Windows for a desktop and Linux for servers for many years, but 11 is where I have to call it quits. My old friend Debian leads me forward from here :)
Unpopular choice here but Ubuntu LTS with ubuntu-debullshit (vanilla gnome, replace snap with flatpak).
My main factors:
- stability of the LTS
- drivers and HW support
- tons of resources online
- already use Ubuntu for servers and Raspian on my Pi
I’ve had my fun distro hopping in the past but I just want a low maintenance system nowadays.
I did a small project with MircoPython on a Pi Pico. I had a very positive experience !
Ah, I see. If you want to move around HTML using your own code, I would also think about using an XML library in your language of choice.
Handling the HTML as a tree rather than lines of code will make the kind of operations you mention much simpler.
So, I finally decided to ditch Ubuntu for desktop and servers last month and went distro shopping.
In the end, I settled on Debian. My rational was I had already been using Debian under the hood for nearly 20 years and it has treated me well. I’ve really come to appreciate that there is always an abundance of help and documentation compared to some other distros.
In addition to apt, I use flatpaks now.
Installing NVIDIA drivers manually kinda sucks but vanilla Gnome shell is so much nicer than Ubuntu’s Gnome.