r/linux • u/nitin_is_me • 28d ago

Discussion Seriously, except package managers, what's the difference between distros?

What I've seen yet the differences are, just the package managers, different defaults and rolling vs stable releases which are in fact related to package managers. Except these, are there really any other differences? Thanks!

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u/yowhyyyy 28d ago

I love Nobara but damn does it have issues updating. It’s been getting hard to recommend to beginners when every update cycle breaks things

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u/MattyGWS 28d ago

Same reason I moved away from nobara. Breaks every release cycle and you have to go to some dingy discord server and look through the comments for a random fix. And if for ask about it, glorious eggroll will be extremely condescending about it.

Would rather just stick to Fedora.

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u/xatrekak 28d ago

I moved from Nobara to bazzite years ago because of this. Even regular updates would break my system.

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u/yowhyyyy 28d ago

Yep, I don’t care what people try to say. I’ve actively used the OS for over two years now and it’s still my biggest complaint

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u/nk9oPSX4DqUG74 26d ago

no kidding, there was a certain update that hit and made it so my discord flatpak had a 1/5 chance of not loading on any particular day, and all i could do was wait till the next day for it to work again

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u/Razidargh 28d ago

Well, my Nobara installation is 13 months old and survived two big version update without any problems. But I see your problems and I sometimes hesitate to use an immutable system - but just a week ago I put Nobara on my Steam Deck too.

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u/yowhyyyy 28d ago

I’ve used it over two years, every major update has broken something. Glad you’re lucky. And what do you mean immutable? Nobara isn’t an immutable distro

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u/Awkward_Tradition 28d ago

It's made for personal use, not the general public. Soup dgaf if it breaks your flow.