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What to distro to hop to next? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So been trying out Garuda Linux for a while now (my first distro), but feel ready to try another distro. Therefore looking for a distro that suits my preferred requirements, anyone has any tips?

Uses Wayland
Supports flatpak
ButterFS format
KDE Plasma
"Good for gaming"

Note: Got nothing negative about Garuda, I just want to explore the options out there :)---

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would recommend Fedora Kionite, or uBlue KDE/ Bazzite. It's the same as Kionite, but preconfigured with some additional QOL-stuff. Bazzite is the equivalent to Nobara, but also immutable.

I turned into a huge fan for Silverblue (and spins) over the last few weeks.

Especially interesting is the Universal-Blue-project, which offers many "spins" (or to be more precise, new-interpretations and derivates).

You can just install the vanilla Silverblue and then rebase to Kionite, uBlue, Bazzite, and so on. And if you don't like it, just roll back/ re-rebase without any hazzle or risks. Your user data are separated from the system and don't need to get copied from your backup like usually.

What you might like:

Immutable and hard to break. If something breaks (bad update or user fault), roll back. Works even better than Snapper (Tumbleweed) imo, which is pretty much the best BTRFS-implementation. You don't need to restore it, you just select the image and boot.
Can be rebased (underlying system swapped out) to anything you want. Switch from KDE to Gnome because it now has a feature you missed? One command, a few minutes waiting time for the download, reboot, and you've got a clean "new" system with all your userdata and stuff unchanged!
No reboot for updates required, they just install in the background and get applied when you boot up your PC the next time.
Cutting edge, but stable.
Doesn't only support Flatpak, but relies on it (at least that's recommended).
Install any software you want with Distrobox. Arch, Debian, whatever. Comes pre-installed (uBlue at least) and is an integral part of your workflow if you use the terminal.
Great KDE implementation.