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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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