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I have been running Fedora as a daily driver for two years now. It’s even the Sway spin so it’s not the happy path. No issues at all. Been through at least one major version upgrade with zero issues. Maybe even two. It’s a total non-issue.

> This is at the core of it, I think. Forcing a user to compile C code is a bad user experience; it often fails due to linking or other dependency-related errors.

Huh? If you’re compiling your own code in a mainstream Linux distribution then I’m not surprised you have to nuke and pave.

It’s a distribution, meaning they build and distribute the software for you.

Flatpak deals with all the applications that don’t need to be built into the operating system itself.




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