In-case you didn’t know, Linus Sebastian of LTT media made a video with Linus Torvalds. If you watched the video, what are your thoughts?

BTW, he uses Fedora.

  • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    Debian is a stable server distro, but in the desktop space users expect everything to just work and while Fedora is usually backwards compatible, Debian isn’t always forwards compatible.

    As for security updates, IDK.

    I’m operating mostly of second-hand information I vaguely remember, I’m not an expert on these things so I’m not really the person to be discussing this with. There’s surely a reason Linus uses Fedora over Debian though.

    • Nudge@lemmy.ml
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      5 hours ago

      My subjective opinion: he uses it because of bleeding edge kernel version. And it is surely, for him more than anyone else, an important point. But it doesn’t mean older kernels are not secure, they can be patched when needed. And the “needed” varies, for some distro it means it’s just not the last one, for others that additionnal and interesting features are added. For Debian, it means patching vulnerabilities if there are, or take the required time to offer a tested and coherent pack of updates. Because otherwise there is for now, no need. Testing is a specific point that no other distro has ever did better than Debian, but the same reason why it feels old to many and not enough up to date, regarding features.

      I’m obviously a Debian advocate, but I’m not saying it’s in general the best distro, there are none. Only best for some usage, and not for others.

      But it doesn’t make it unsecure (that’s partly why it’s one of the most used server side) and “holding back” updates. :)