Got it. I didn't knew that config files work different in different distros. I guess, it depends of what child distro they're using. Basically, Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu are the same.
Fedora is not my type ...one time I was trying to install mongodb but couldn't ...
I would recommend ubuntu based or arch based ...they can install everything ...
Dot files work different for different versions of any given software where the developers of that software fail to support forwards and backwards compatibility of their own software. Dot files are not saved nor read by the distributions itself.
The dconf is the only somewhat standardized and shared configuration file format, all other dot files are fully custom to each application and designed by developers of said application.
Older software usually handles forwards and backwards compatibility well because it used to be common to mount home directory (where these dot files are stored) over NFS and different systems were running different versions of each application. Younger developers don't seem to know this or just don't mind anymore.
See .gitconfig for an example of config file that doesn't break when you switch to different version. That's because Git developers do mind about backwards compatibility and that doesn't change between distros.
In debian the dot files are generally not included with file operations. But they don't disappear when performing something to a parent folder like move.
How do they behave in other distro?
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you are right ...even dot-files work different on different distros
Dot files?
.vimrc or .conf type files. Config files in general.
Got it. I didn't knew that config files work different in different distros. I guess, it depends of what child distro they're using. Basically, Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu are the same.
Yeah, I guess you were using a lot of debian distros only.
I have used Fedora and Cent OS, but I guess they're not built for me.
Fedora is not my type ...one time I was trying to install mongodb but couldn't ...
I would recommend ubuntu based or arch based ...they can install everything ...
Fedora is the best Linux distro
Why do you think that so?
Most polished and Linus Torvolds uses it
Dot files work different for different versions of any given software where the developers of that software fail to support forwards and backwards compatibility of their own software. Dot files are not saved nor read by the distributions itself.
The dconf is the only somewhat standardized and shared configuration file format, all other dot files are fully custom to each application and designed by developers of said application.
Older software usually handles forwards and backwards compatibility well because it used to be common to mount home directory (where these dot files are stored) over NFS and different systems were running different versions of each application. Younger developers don't seem to know this or just don't mind anymore.
See .gitconfig for an example of config file that doesn't break when you switch to different version. That's because Git developers do mind about backwards compatibility and that doesn't change between distros.
In debian the dot files are generally not included with file operations. But they don't disappear when performing something to a parent folder like move.
How do they behave in other distro?