Final exams are over.
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Final exams are over. I’m free.
First work I’ll do in winter break is setting triple boot on my desktop. Currently I have Windows installed and will install FreeBSD and Fedora.
Windows: video games
FreeBSD: kernel development
Linux: Vivado and verilatorI prefer Linux on bare metal to WSL 2 because WSL is a nightmare. WSL 2 definitely has a problem with managing redundant disk usage. Docker Desktop on Windows is sometimes too slow and buggy. Running programs on WSL (especially I/O heavy workloads) always have performance issues.
Why Fedora over Ubuntu, Arch, RHEL, OpenSUSE, etc? I’m using Linux for both FPGA (Vivado) and Linux kernel programming, and other distros have issues with one of those two.
Ubuntu: Issues with `make install` kernels (according to Torvalds from a recent video in Linus Tech Tips).
Arch: Lack of support for Vivado. Also I’m against rolling release because I won’t use Linux very often.
OpenSUSE: KDE without customization is worse then Gnome, and I don’t have time to tune my desktop environment to make good look.Fedora is a good all-rounder for both RTL-related stuff and kernel engineering.
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