Help to choose Linux distro

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My statement was based on my own experience. Not a fact. Sorry if I offended anybody.

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That was exactly my point. You canā€™t from one personā€™s experiences say that Macs outlive PCs running Windows like a factor of 2+, but you certainly implied that.

Any distro or OS works just fine. Pick what you like because nothing is automatically superior.

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Iā€™ve used Fedora as my primary desktop since way back when it was called ā€œFedora Coreā€ (and then Redhat Linux before that). I like it because it tends to be a little more cutting edge and I donā€™t mind trouble-shooting problems (Iā€™ve been using Linux since 1992 and am a former Linux admin so Iā€™m used to it). But on the flip side, they only support the last two releases (with a new version being released about every six months) so youā€™ll need to be prepared to do a complete system update every six months in order to stay up-to-date on security issues and such.

If you arenā€™t into upgrading your system twice a year, and possibly trouble-shooting some issues that occur because of these upgrades (usually having to do with third-party repos) then I would probably avoid Fedora and go with a distro targeted toward more mainstream users, such as Ubuntu.

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Wow! you are using Linux from even before my birth.

Now I get what actual stability means. Thanks so much for helping me in clearing my doubts.

For now, Iā€™d really like to try Fedora. And in the future when I will have a new laptop then I will experiment with CentOS and Arch too.

I appreciate your time,
Best Regards,
Karamjot Kaur.

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Glad to see they liked you :smiley:
Regarding a ā€œsecondā€ Linux distro, as you already had read. There is no ā€œmust to useā€ distro. In Software Development and Machine Learning, the OS is Not of imperative importance.
I think it would be important only in the cybersecurity field, when they obviously prefer Linux.
But in the other coding paths, your skills (and the debugging :rofl: :rofl:)make most of the work.
Best Regards

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One thing to note is that CentOS has been discontinued and support will end December this year, though if youā€™re just trying distros and donā€™t have any specific requirements, its successor (which fills a slightly different niche) or one of the forks would probably be fine.

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Ya that true but we have CentOS stream, didnā€™t we?

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