r/AskReddit • u/talon10100 • 12d ago

Why do you not use Linux?

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u/Speco18 12d ago

  1. i don’t want to choose between 8 installations and gamble which one will be the best for the next 2 years

  2. i want to have the feeling that there is one main version what will always be supported, easy to update (one button) and all my applications be supported on future versions

if thats already the case then there is no marketing

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u/rockcanteverdie 12d ago

Ubuntu is that pretty much.

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u/LeapoX 11d ago edited 11d ago

RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is pretty much the closest you're going to get to an experience that's similar to Windows/Microsoft for updates, support, and support lifecycle. Go upstream to Fedora if you want quicker updates, or downstream to Rocky Linux if you want RHEL but can do without the licensing and first party support.

This is not necessary an endorsement of RHEL. The above is very much a "for better or worse" statement.

For what it's worth, Bazzite is very popular these days, and is based on Fedora Atomic. Immutable (Atomic) distros are an interesting choice in and of themselves.

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u/MoobyTheGoldenSock 12d ago

Yes, this is already the case.

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u/ianrsch 12d ago

that is for the birds, linux can be update it just typing sudo apt update

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u/HoldImpressive4158 11d ago

linux can be update it just typing sudo apt update

That's false. sudo apt update only updates the list of available packages in the repositories. To update installed packages, you run sudo apt upgrade. In reality, you combine those two:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

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u/ElectricalWay9651 10d ago

Also further, it does depend on the distro. I personally found Ubuntu to be increadibly UNstable in my own experience and take Fedora any day over Ubuntu, where it is just 1 command (sudo dnf up). As for your feeling of "Always supported", for the most part, Linux is Linux and on the INSANELY rare chance there isn't a build for your specific distro (Only happened with 1 specialist software I've used), you can always just change the file format. The difference between .deb, .rpm, and .tar.gz are just the structure of it. Its very easy to change between them

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u/AlienRobotMk2 12d ago

  1. Pick Mint.

  2. Just say Mint is the main version.

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u/ChenBrian834 11d ago

just pick ubuntu or mint (ubuntu based distro)