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By far it’s Kate, even though I’m now a neovim user. It’s just a great IDE.

Being able to follow a manual is a high bar nowadays

Have fun, I believe one of those will fit your needs just fine ✨

You’re welcome, hope you enjoy your new Linux, whichever you choose ✨

Thank you! Was also needing this~

Technical differences:

Fedora uses RPM for package format, and is made to work with the latest versions of software, so it’s almost a rolling release, and receives VERY constant updates (but it’s still solid). The only other release model is the SilverBlue/Kinoite which is all about having an immutable base system and managing your applications through Flatpak.

Debian OTOH uses the DEB package format, and comes in 3 update models:

• unstable (bleeding edge software, breaks may occur) with constant updates
• testing, or Sid (with actively tested software, more akin to Fedora’s main model. Stuff rarely goes wrong)
• stable (receives mostly security updates, focus on using battle-tested software versions. Ideal for servers and people who want their system to absolutely not go wrong. It’s my current pick)

Project differences:

Fedora is on paper “community driven” but it’s actually backed and steered on by RedHat. There’s also a current proposal about implementing telemetry (turned on by default).

Debian is entirely community-made and driven, with no big corporation being its owner and/or main sponsor, and it has a stronger focus on FOSS. It’s about as old as RedHat (both have their origins in the early 90s), so you can bet they’ll both be around basically forever.

Edit: both are great distros, mature, stable and easy to use. Fedora was previously my most beloved, but my relationship with it soured over RedHat’s leadership decisions. Don’t let my current salt take away from the review :')

My main tips are: get the live ISOs of a few of the most used Linux distributions, I’d recommend in particular: Debian (my current one), Mint, Fedora and OpenSUSE.

For Debian and Fedora, get both the KDE and GNOME editions. OpenSUSE is mainly only KDE, and Mint uses Cinnamon. Those are the “desktop types”.

Try each live system on a virtual machine and see which one you like best. Your main choice tbh is the desktop environment you like the best (mine is KDE, also called Plasma), each distribution has it’s own way of doing a few things as well.

Then pick the one you enjoy the most. All of those are long-lived, stable and well-supported and documented.

Source: me, I’ve used Linux since 2003 and introduced all my family it and they have been using it for years with no issue.

With every passing year, little by little I go deeper to the privacy paranoid side.

But my focus is way more anti big corporation than pro privacy, that fact those are almost one and the same is mostly a side effect for me.

Us FF buddies got each other’s backs, don’t worry

Sounds interesting. Gonna check it out

I alternate between VCCodium and Kate, both are fine to me, but Kate feels snappier since I’m on KDE. It’s also less of a resource drain.

They are, but some might not be available from the extension store. Usually copying from vscode extensions folder works with no issues in my experience, but search the Codium store first just in case.

It’s been a few years since I last used Sid, but I don’t remember it being that unstable. I’ve never spent much time with Arch to make that comparison though, so I can’t really judge on that.

Jerboa believers w again

Debian Sid fits the bill with flying colours. I’m personally sticking with Bookworm though, I enjoy stability and slower upgrades.

• Code in VSCodium
• Code in Kate to keep thing fresh
• Code in Nvim because I still need to learn it
• Cry while debbuging a React app because the error messages aren’t very good
• Wish I were working with Svelte or had enough backend experience to switch to being a backend dev
• Play with terminal configs and shell scripting to distract myself from my woes
• Rinse and repeat.

Aside from the (not so much) jokes, give VSCodium a try, it’s to VSCode what Chromium is to Chrome, and works just as well.

I’d rather someone’s first choice about Linux was which DE to use. This plays a way bigger part in first impressions.

The obvious choice is KDE, ofc

Ooohhh that’s new to me, definitely a cool possibility. One more app to host on my wishlist

Some fetishes are best kept hidden.

Firefox sync is really neat as well, though. I like not needing to configure Firefox for each system I use when I can have everything sync’ed. I know Mozilla ain’t the greatest but they’re fine enough for my daily usage.

If I need full privacy I can go Librewolf or Tor browser.