I started using Linux at university, and my first distro at home was SuSE in 1997, because my father got the CDs at work. Then I ran RedHat for a while, because that’s what my friends were running, then Mandrake, then Knoppix, then Debian. Loved Debian and AfterStep.
About 10 years ago I moved to Ubuntu because I had a hardware issue that was solved in Ubuntu but was a pain to fix in Debian. I liked that as well.
But this year I bought a second-hand ThinkPad T490, and it was randomly locking up (mouse still moves but nothing else responds). Googling and trying to troubleshoot by looking through logs wasn’t working, and I’m pretty sure it’s not a pure hardware issue, because I’ve got it as a dual boot system because my girlfriend’s son uses windows on it, and hasn’t had any issues.
So yesterday, I decided to back up my home directory and install Debian Forky. It feels like coming home. And so far, no lock-ups…
I was recently using PikaOS (Debian based) and I really liked it. I’ve slept on Debian for so long I might just go ahead and install it now.
this past week I installed Fedora to try out again and give 44 a go. I don’t know how, I don’t know why, and this is probably user error but it’s made my machine incredibly unstable. hard reboots or just straight up shutdowns, locking up when loading into fedora, freezing, etc. Might be because of my Nvidia GPU I don’t know but I cant’ do anything on it with Fedora because I know a freeze or lockup is coming. the two weeks or so I was using PikaOS it was smooth as silk and very fast.