cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34247715

Curious on the experiences of those recently migrating to Linux from Windows 10, Intel-based MacOS, etc. How is it being on Linux? Anything surprise or frustrate you?

  • Horsey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    5 days ago

    I’m on Fedora workstation and Nobara (on 2 different machines). Discover has Fedora system updates literally every day, which range from 350MB to sometimes over 1GB. Discover doesn’t show much detail about the updates when I click “more information” (or whatever they call it on the update screen). Again, not a huge big deal, but it is definitely different from macOS where updates are only file deltas and not entire updated packages.

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      7·
      5 days ago

      At a guess you’re probably updating Flatpak packages too which explains it. There’s nothing wrong with them but Flatpaks are bundled with all needed dependencies to that they run on any Linux distro. This means they generally work better at the cost of disk space. Theoretically you could install all your software natively into Fedora and have smaller updates/disk usage, but at a greater risk of dependency issues.