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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Is there a programming specific distro? (self.linux)

submitted 2 months ago by vrek to c/[email protected]

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I know there choice of distro is really meaningless as you can install almost any program on almost any distro. But I have been playing with kali which is for security people and pen testers. Is there a similar distro for programmers? Like a few ides installed some profiling tools some virtual environment tools etc?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've had this happen more often than I'd like to admit.

There were quite a few instances where I just couldn't game in the evening after turning on my PC, mostly because of my power supply (outages while updating, unstable grid, damaged PSU and hard drive, etc.) and my ability to shoot myself in the foot in regards to my IT skills.

I imagined spending my friday evening differently than chrooting my install from another USB more often than I'd like to admit. At least Linux is repairable, good luck trying that with Windows...

Now, thankfully, I live in another house with a landlord that actually cares that I don't get electrocuted in my shower, and I don't have those problems anymore. I also don't tinker as much with my OS anymore, at least not much.

Still, Fedora Atomic feels way more robust and less buggy than regular Fedora, especially KDE. And the QoL tweaks from uBlue are great too!