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.

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

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.

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.

sin_free_for_00_days ,

I just stick with one because I'm boring. I've used it for a long time, it works, I haven't really changed anything in years. I think it's pretty cool to talk with people who are polydistroamorous though.

maxmalrichtig ,
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Is it weird

No. You're fine.

LittleBobbyTables ,

I think that is completely normal. I run Arch on my main desktop, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my laptop and Debian on any and all servers I host. And I think they all work wonderfully. Even outside of these distros, I can still see the use case for many other distros. I think many popular distros each have a specific goal in mind and they execute it well.

anamethatisnt ,

I'm using Fedora GNOME for my pcie passthrough desktop vm and Debian Bookworm for my hypervisor and virtual servers.
When Bookworm ages I'm sure I'll mix in other distros for vm servers to try out stuff that isn't available in Debian Stable yet.
I'm also curious to set up a virtual NixOS and a virtual Fedora Silverblue/Atomic just to check them out.

I also don't order the same pizza everytime.

DangerousInternet ,
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I usually was switching to different distro, when I kill my current one. Stuck with Silverblue for almost a year allready 😶

MangoKangaroo ,
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I use Debian as a default and Fedora when I need a newer kernel/newer libraries. You aren't weird at all. Or, at least we're weird together. :)

dr_robot ,
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I do the same. Fedora on my laptop because I want a balance of stability and having the newest features. Servers run Debian, because I don't have time to fix and update things.

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?

YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU , (edited )

If you are weird so am I. Fedora desktop + 3 Debian headless boxes. Though I may nix everything some day.

Edit: Why do I catch more stray downvotes on Lemmy than I ever did Reddit? I swear there must be downvote bots out there.

theshatterstone54 ,

I think it's pretty normal. For me, I switch back and forth between NixOS and Arch because neither of them provides me with exactly what I'm looking for i.e a distro that has all the packages I use within its repos (I hate compiling) and is static release (I often forget to update), but is not immutable (sometimes I need special programs for university that can only be obtained via compiling from source on a non-immutable distro). Arch and NixOS both have all the packages I need (only ones that do afaik), and one of them pffers static release but is immutable, while the other is rolling release but is not immutable. Currently I'm on Arch, but when (if) it breaks, I'll just switch to NixOS instead of fixing it, and use distrobox or something similar for any packages that need to be compiled.

Quazatron ,
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Using the tool that best fits the use case is not weird. It's common sense.

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.

bdonvr ,

I like em all to match usually. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on the desktop/laptop, Leap on my home server.

Though I didn't run Arch on my server when I did on my personal computers

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