That’s what I decided.

It will be more informative, and I have lots of options for hosting.

Forgejo is working on federation. That is the big item.

Not really. He posts under his own name, so I recognized it from the forums.

He’ll have more time to spend on the Phoronix forums now. 🙂

I have to agree. I tried some of the JetBrains IDEs from Flathub, and I switched back to the regular JetBrains Toolbox versions.

Plus, being able to sandbox user space applications, which previously had free reign, is nice.

Sandboxing isn’t 100% there yet, but it’s come along way.

I did on arch.

Arch. There’s the problem. 😆

Fedora and Tumbleweed keep up with Arch while being easier to maintain. Fedora is a semi-rolling release, and Tumbleweed is rolling release. Both are much more stable than Arch is.

Arch is great for people who want to tinker with their desktop/laptop install. I do not, so I run Fedora.

It depends on the user.

Run Fedora or Tumbleweed. They will be continuously updated, and an install will last years.

It will always boot…

Your basis for comparison is Arch which is known to be highly unstable and a handful to maintain. 😆

For my work, I need different OSes and distros for testing. If someone needs a stable distro for something, a VM or container will work. There are ways around the needing a stable.

Also, containers aren’t a penalty.

It’s good for clean up, and I got used to it on Windows.

You can break the cycle. Just because some you suffered doesn’t mean others have to. 🙂

Everyone says they’re going to clean up their profiles, but no one does. 😆

Keep your dot files in a repo…

I have that because I run through so many test servers and temp installs.

Then there are Ansible playbooks to setup my systems.

The cutting edge distro will have better consumer hardware support, which matters in a laptop/desktop.

They don’t have any devs to support it. The one dev who an idea about btrfs left for Oracle, from what I’ve read.

Btrfs is rather nice in the correct scenarios, and lack of btrfs is one reason I’m moving away from CentOS servers.

Just why? RHEL gets a new version every 5 years.

You answered your own question. Maintaining software will eat up lots of time. It’s fine when there is a team to maintain software for installs, but not really something a single person running a desktop/laptop probably wants to deal with.

The 5yr release cycle is a pain starting about year 3 even for people who get paid to deal with it. 😆

VMs and containers on top of something more up to date is the best of both. Up to date distro with features, and all the distros one could want!

In-place upgrades are very relevant. Who wants to destroy their setup and reinstall everything when a new OS is released?

There is leapp for EL in-place upgrades, but it’s new and rather rough, from my testing.

Flatpak has made software support better, but I’d still recommend something else without a concrete reason, like proprietary CFD software or something which only supports EL.

It can be done, but I wouldn’t recommend it. Containers and VMs running a stable distro on top of something like Fedora, Tumbleweed, or whatever else is my preferred setup.

Something like Fedora also has a more mature in-place upgrade ability than the EL distros have.

Except CentOS/RHEL. RH doesn’t build the kernels with btrfs support.

Yeah, really. OpenBSD punches above its weight. There are many things they would like todo, but don’t have the resources.

I’m not sure about that. Android isn’t Linux for those reasons, but ChromeOS is much, much closer to a regular GNU/Linux distro. They’re even switching to Wayland from what I’ve heard. 😄

ChromeOS uses a custom display server for the moment, but Chrome + <random Linux distro> is pretty similar. 🤷🏽‍♂️

ChromeOS is moving to Wayland as their display server, to make it even more of a standard Linux install.

Yeah, why isn’t ChromeOS rolled into Linux?

Bigger platforms attract more devs.

The BSDs don’t have the dev resources of Linux simply because Linux has a much larger install base.

Proprietary software is one of the last anchors holding people to Windows or macOS.

Ideally, people would switch to FOSS alternatives on a FOSS OS, but proprietary software on top of a FOSS OS is better than FOSS software on a proprietary OS.

Also, people are going to charge for software in some form or fashion. The economic model would need to change in order to allow people to develop software without any economic motives.

OP needs to allow the accounts to log into the host on the FreeIPA server.

I have a FreeIPA + Fedora setup and forgot to add the host to my host group which controls host access for standard accounts, and I got the same message.

That doesn’t change the fix.

The accounts need to be allowed to login to the host in FreeIPA.