I hear that a lot but, how bad is it really? Does it affect you (if you use Debian)? Aren’t there ways to install newer versions of most things that actually matter?
I hear that a lot but, how bad is it really? Does it affect you (if you use Debian)? Aren’t there ways to install newer versions of most things that actually matter?
I’ve had hard drives be too new for the Debian kernel. Granted it was a VERY fancy hard drive, but… Ever since that I’ve been leaning Fedora, but Fedora 40 is awful, so I’m considering trying Debian as my preferred distro again in the future.
I’ve found that arch is often an easier time than fedora if you want “up-to-date” Linux. Fedora has its heart in the right place, but its pathological adherence to open source makes it sometimes a very difficult time for certain classes of new things.
But as I have opinions as to my lawn and your location relative to it, Debian is more often fine for my needs. It’s my daily driver on pretty much everything at work and at home, with the exception of a few arch and fedora systems in my home lab.
I was perfectly happy with Fedora when I switched to it on 32 up to 39, but this pulseaudio/pipewire crap is just like… Shades of my audio drivers never just working on Windows 95. Additionally, beyond it adding weird audio delays and pauses, if not outright breaking audio on my intel systems, it causes all kinds of non-audio bugs on both of my AMD systems, gnome-shell will just suddenly race to like 20-30% CPU use and the UI LOCKS. On the desktop AMD, it’s always momentary, but on the laptop, it’s a solid half second and happens way more often, but it’s entirely resolved if I connect certain HDMI monitors (I assume having that as a possible output avoids whatever race condition causes this BS). At any rate, exactly the sort of finicky, mysterious, no good fix I can find crap that made me abandon proprietary OSes, so if this isn’t completely fixed in 41, I’ll definitely be trying out other options.