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Was Fedora always so unstable?
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Anecdotally it seems to be an unusually bad phase, lots of people reporting problems since kernel 6.3 ,then there was the bad ostree update (which I don't think was exclusive to Fedora).
I have enough years of good experience with Fedora to know that's not normal and confidence enough to stick with it.
Last year Silverblue spent a whole month broken, the developers have no concept of rolling back bad updates.
Not for me it wasn't, when was that?
You probably didn't notice, but you couldn't install anything or update, rpm-ostree was broken.
Unless you fixed it manually, sure, there's an argument to be had that way.
I was looking for more like a date and Fedora version number, there was a short period for a few months in August-September last year where I didn't have an active Silverblue machine, but apart from that I've been running
rpm-ostree upgradeon something on a daily basis for the last two years.It didn't spew an error message, it failed completely silently. I was completely puzzled and wasted a day trying to figure out why I couldn't overlay a certain package.