Is weird that I like and use both Fedora and Debian?

I never thought about it before but I use upstream and downstream without much though. For my personal devices and containers I use Fedora but when it comes to servers and VMs I use Debian for its stable nature.

I also run Linux mint in my homelab with pcie pass though so it functions like a normal desktop.

Halano ,

I use arch for all of that I'm running vms and host ssh servers also run containers & it never broken for me
and to be honest your situation is weird 3 distro for one job.

DeltaWhy ,

I use Debian on my servers, Arch on my laptop and desktop. Different tools for different jobs. I tried Debian on my laptop a few years ago but it wasn't a good fit for me - my hardware was too new for the stable kernel, and the Wayland/wlroots stuff was too far behind. As a server though, especially since I'm mostly running Podman containers, stable and slow-updating is great! I use unattended-upgrades and haven't had a problem yet.

I haven't spent much time with Fedora but I'd probably like it as a desktop OS - fairly fast updates, and sticks pretty close to upstream without a ton of custom theming for example. I would miss the AUR, but Flatpak covers a lot of what I need, and Distrobox could handle anything else.

ricdeh ,
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Why should it be? I drive Arch on my desktop and Debian 12 Bookworm on my laptop, they are very different distributions but both serve me very well.

Aradia ,
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I'm an arch Linux user and I like most of the distros, Fedora, Debian, CentOS, RockyOS... I try different distros too, my problem is that I will always return to Arch Linux and a simple i3wm environment... but I like GNOME, KDE and the awesome Wayland. It's just I like what I am used to and goes faster, and I can use the same tools as always. xdotool for example, the alternative for Wayland is ydotool which is a daemon running as root to emulate a device and I dislike the idea of doing that, root? systemctl daemon? Hmm...

But I could be totally good with fedora, at the end I just want the i3wm environment and the wonderful bash or zsh terminal (like alacritty) to interact with Linux. Best OS than Apple and Windows. Funny how Apple interface sucks so much, they lack from smart UI, Windows 11 forces you to log in, their UI is messed up, good thing is their desktop is smart enough to grid windows, and their terminals sucks, PowerShell has good things, but it's not the same... c:\an\\'t\find\Paths/ and I don't really see the good on Object-oriented on terminal and stuff like apple being able to render high quality image on your terminal so you can see on a normal prompt a 8k image on the same terminal app... wtf, and they are even closed and people/companies pays for it.

Cwilliams ,

Yep, I hear ya

jcarax ,

Yup. I was a Debian guy back in the day, and eventually gravitated to Arch in it's early days. Then I didn't have time, so I used Fedora for pretty much a decade. Now I'm back to Arch, but have a project to spin up simple routing and NAT'ing VMs in lab environments, that can be used to demonstrate a variety of configuration issues on our platform. Would it be easier for me to do in Arch? Absolutely, both due to familiarity, and the fact that Arch doesn't get in my way nearly as much as Debian does. But Debian is far more stable, configuration-wise, so I'm going that route so I don't have to debug and tweak scripts every few months, or even weeks.

people_are_cute ,
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No, though it is weird that you feel like you should ask such nonsensical questions in public forums.

possiblylinux127 OP ,
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I just wanted to generate activity on Lemmy

TeryVeneno ,

Nah, it’s pretty weird that you enjoy being mean on public forums. If you want to criticize then do so, don’t be an ass about it.

CubitOom ,

Use whatever you want for personal. But I would suggest trying to use containers for hosting if you haven't already. It really blows the idea of needing a stable OS out of the water since you can just declare everything you want in a config file and tear down and spin up with the app you need ready in less than a minute.

You can use Ubuntu still of course in a container. But things get really interesting when you use smaller attack surface distros like Alpine, BusyBox, or even a distroless container.

possiblylinux127 OP ,
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Unless you want to run everything in the cloud you still need something bare metal. In my case I run Debian VMs on my proxmox cluster with docker and podman containers.

Aurenkin ,

This is an aberration. You must choose one and never deviate.

Seriously though I think it's pretty normal. When I install Linux i usually pick whatever distro at the time and end up using a couple of different ones. I have arch on my desktop and Pop OS on my laptop at the moment.

SturgiesYrFase ,
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I have arch (btw) on my desktop and Pop OS on my laptop

Yeah, my desktop runs arch one laptop runs Ubuntu server and I have a surface 4 running Nobara (a flavour of fesora)

OddFed ,
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*btw

SturgiesYrFase ,
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Touché

mvirts ,

It would be weirder to like Linux and Windows, but hey someone had to write samba 😹

possiblylinux127 OP ,
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Samba is much easier to deal with than NFS. I would use it in a all Linux environment honestly.

OddFed ,
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A model standing awkwardly having to wear very weird designer clothing.

SatyrSack ,

I don't get it

OddFed ,
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He gives you the look like "really".

spencer ,

I tend to agree - I have no love lost for Microsoft but I’m also willing to admit when they’ve got some good tech.

okamiueru ,

Only reason why that is weird to me, is just how much better Linux is. I'm too old to give a shit about a fanboy mentality. Linux used to be something you suffered through in order to get a tradeoff only available to power users. Now, my 90 year old grandmother has an easier time with Linux. It's more consistent, and doesn't break stuff nearly as often.

A more controversial take, is that I feel the same about MacOS. It was a lot of work in order to reduce how often it is annoying.

ikidd ,
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Those are both good distros for those purposes. I'm not a fan of Debian as a desktop distro but it's awesome as a headless server, and Fedora moves too fast for my tastes as a server distro but that's fine in a desktop.

So good choice.

WeirdGoesPro ,
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Is it weird that you prefer different tools for different jobs?

Nope.

lauha ,

What? You use sandpaper for sanding and saw for sawing??

Are you trying to ruin hammer industry? Back in the day radicals like you would have been burned on a stake.

WeirdGoesPro ,
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Just wait until you realize what I do with the screwdriver.

lauha ,

Watch your mouth or Big Hammer will get you.

SayJess ,
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I keep going back and forth between Xubuntu Minimal and Fedora. Im just tooling around on a $38 Lenovo Chromebook, which has only 16GB of flash storage (soldered of course). Fedora has the smaller footprint, and runs pretty smooth. Xubuntu Minimal is, well, minimal so it is pretty snappy. Xfce is where it’s at for me.

Sometimes having so much choice can feel like a hindrance when it comes to trying to find a district that checks all of our boxes.

possiblylinux127 OP ,
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You also could use Fedora Xfce4

SayJess ,
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Very true. I’m so used to apt, and am also lazy. I just need to bite the bullet and RTFM lol.

RHOPKINS13 ,

I'll go against the grain a little bit and say it's a little weird. There's nothing wrong with liking multiple distros, but a lot of people either stick with RPM-based (Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, Rocky, OpenSUSE, Mageia) or Debian-based (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Pop!, Elementary). Then you have weirdos that like Gentoo, where nearly every package you install has to be compiled on the system. Or Arch, where the "installer" throws you in a terminal, and damn near everything has to be done manually to get your system up and running. And updates are "rolling release", and if you try to update just one package without updating the rest of your system things can easily break.

I am mostly a fan of Debian-based distros myself. But I'll use CentOS on a VM if I'm trying to self-host anything that recommends it.

Loucypher ,

CentOS? You mean Stream?

sgtnasty ,
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I use both myself, Fedora for desktop work and Debian for server

delirious_owl ,
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Sounds like you're a QubesOS user, which ships with both

Cwilliams ,

Is it weird that, although some people prefer blue shirts over red shirts, I wear both colors?

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