With the release of Debian 13 which includes KDE 6.3 I find myself tempted to switch away from Fedora. Nothing against it but I think I might be getting too old for weekly updates! With flatpak I have as recent software as I want and for CLIs and libs, well, I don’t need everything latest…

There’s still some FOMO but then again almost everything out there comes in a .deb to begin with!

Has anyone here made the transition to the slow lane?

Aug 10 · 4 months ago

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Does it matter? I mean both distros are pretty stable,and Fedora doesnt have KDE 6.3?

I would prefer semi-annual updates.

honestly, as a Debian user, I don't recommend it too much. I mean it's better than some other distros (*cough* *cough* ubuntu) but packages being constantly outdated gets annoying pretty quick.

I mean, it isn't a huge deal and it's not nearly bad enough for me to switch distros, but it is a problem and it's mildly annoying to manually install a newer version of whatever software I need (which doesn't happen often, but is a constant problem). But for desktop applications at least, Flatpak mostly solves this.

Hmm... thanks for the insights folks! I think Debian 13 on a VM might be a good start and then take it from there :-)

why not something like almalinux?

To be honest, I’ve never considered enterprise Linux distros for desktop, although now that you mention it, it doesn’t kinda falls on the same stable category as Debian… I’ll need to check it out

You want frequent updates for security reasons. Many security fixes never actually get backported.

Why not switch to Silverblue instead? It's still Fedora, but updates download automatically in the background and you simply restart whenever to begin using the latest image.

@thezipcreator you can try messing with debian backports, that sometimes has newer packages.