What's up. A little about me. Back until sometime in October 2019 I'm was a strict windows 7 user, programming mainly in C++Builder. I decided to wipe and update to Windows 10 since 7 is dropping support and meanwhile have a look at Linux. I ended up installing Linux on one of my laptops with XP and 7 tripple boot, and on my main laptop Windows 10. Turns out I'm using Linux more often than Windows 10 at this point in time. Prior to this I had limited Linux experience in early 2000s when I bought Mandrake on CD and installed it....It was bad. Then in early 2010s when I tried Kubuntu, it was limiting at that time. Nowadays, Linux is mature enough and is much better than Windows. It gives me that feeling when I first sat in front of DOS computer back in 1990s, and then in front of Windows 95 back in 1996s, it brings back the magic which I long lost with Windows.
I tried Ubuntu first and was impressed as a desktop user, the only thing I did not like about it is snap packages, which take longer to load. Then I went to Fedora and loved it, and struck with it until February 2020 when a kernel update broke my NVIDIA optirun install. From that I decided to try FreeBSD and ditched it when I realized it's a pain to run on my hardware. Then again Ubuntu, and this time around I did not like that pretty much all packages are old, even ancient. However, I loved the development tools. But did not like the package manager. In fact that package manager eventually broke the entire installation. I then tried CentOS and it's eww, ancient. Back to Fedora again. Now with a fresh look at Fedora I realize it's not so good. Stability wise and feature wise I'm alright with it. I don't like development tools and driver support. For example CUDA and OpenCL, I have 390 drivers. Thus far I"m not that far into configuring and installing stuff. I'm questioning if I want to stick with Fedora. I do have another HDD and can try something else, I'm looking for your suggestions.
I want latest software, and I want development tools, different versions of gcc and g++.
I'm using Linux for hacking.
I tried Ubuntu first and was impressed as a desktop user, the only thing I did not like about it is snap packages, which take longer to load. Then I went to Fedora and loved it, and struck with it until February 2020 when a kernel update broke my NVIDIA optirun install. From that I decided to try FreeBSD and ditched it when I realized it's a pain to run on my hardware. Then again Ubuntu, and this time around I did not like that pretty much all packages are old, even ancient. However, I loved the development tools. But did not like the package manager. In fact that package manager eventually broke the entire installation. I then tried CentOS and it's eww, ancient. Back to Fedora again. Now with a fresh look at Fedora I realize it's not so good. Stability wise and feature wise I'm alright with it. I don't like development tools and driver support. For example CUDA and OpenCL, I have 390 drivers. Thus far I"m not that far into configuring and installing stuff. I'm questioning if I want to stick with Fedora. I do have another HDD and can try something else, I'm looking for your suggestions.
I want latest software, and I want development tools, different versions of gcc and g++.
I'm using Linux for hacking.