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Very elitist take.

I'm a hacker but I prefer that my computer just works without fuss so that I can do actual work. Why is fighting with an OS seen as some huge universe-brain achievement?

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> but I prefer that my computer just works without fuss so that I can do actual work

This is exactly the reason I run arch. I have repaired loads of colleagues fedora installs that broke during dist-upgrade. And I the two times I tried to dist-upgrade old ubuntu installs went catastrophically wrong.

With arch I update every day or once a week and don't have to worry.

I have never once had a Fedora upgrade or Windows update break my machine.

I think the trick with Fedora is to know the release-schedule, give them about two weeks after the release to find and fix the worst bugs and then not wait too long to update. On my own workstation I also didn't have issues.

Hey, I do the same. I sometimes play with Arch, but I mostly run Ubuntu, because sometimes I am in a hurry to get things done and don't want to fiddle with the system.

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