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Retr0id ◴[06 Dec 25 23:50 UTC] No.46177732[source]▶
Linus Torvalds currently uses Fedora with GNOME, which was fun to learn because that's also been my personal choice for a while now.

(source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfv0V1SxbNA )

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WD-42 ◴[07 Dec 25 00:10 UTC] No.46177913[source]▶
He said also because fedora seemed the most amenable to running custom kernels which is basically what he does all day.
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nurettin ◴[07 Dec 25 01:43 UTC] No.46178451[source]▶
Which is weird, I've compiled and ran custom kernels and modules on debian before fedora 1.0 iso was announced on freenode/#fedora and it wasn't even good.
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WD-42 ◴[07 Dec 25 03:09 UTC] No.46178814[source]▶
Ok have you considered things may have changed in the 40+ releases since then?
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1. sph ◴[07 Dec 25 21:53 UTC] No.46185549[source]▶
It still is an utter pain if you ever need to get close to the rpm system.

Probably what he means is that a make install (or whatever the incantation, it’s been a while since I compiled a kernel) just works on Fedora and never has to deal with the rpm nonsense (I use Fedora too, but packaging is even more dreadful than deb, if you can believe it)