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.
Is it weird that you prefer different tools for different jobs?
Nope.
What? You use sandpaper for sanding and saw for sawing??
Are you trying to ruin hammer industry? Back in the day radicals like you would have been burned on a stake.
Just wait until you realize what I do with the screwdriver.
Watch your mouth or Big Hammer will get you.
No, though it is weird that you feel like you should ask such nonsensical questions in public forums.
I just wanted to generate activity on Lemmy
Nah, it’s pretty weird that you enjoy being mean on public forums. If you want to criticize then do so, don’t be an ass about it.
Careful he’s verified
Yes. It’s illegal actually. A Microsoft team has been dispatched and is en route to your place right now to install Win 11 S on all of your devices.
Is it weird
No. You’re fine.
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 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.
You also could use Fedora Xfce4
Very true. I’m so used to apt, and am also lazy. I just need to bite the bullet and RTFM lol.
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.
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.
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CentOS? You mean Stream?
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.
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.
Sounds like you’re a QubesOS user, which ships with both
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
I use both myself, Fedora for desktop work and Debian for server
Is it weird that, although some people prefer blue shirts over red shirts, I wear both colors?
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. :)
