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Considering switching away from Fedora and to another distribution. Does anyone have any suggestions for distributions I should consider?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I'm currently using Debian Unstable. I used Fedora for a long time, but it got noticeably worse when IBM bought Red Hat. I also like Arch, btw. I have tried a bunch of other distros too, but they all have some quirk that annoys me (*buntu has Snap, Pop!_OS and Mint don't support KDE officially, OpenSUSE is based around YaST, Elementary is weird about software installation, Manjaro fails at basic security 101 and keeps DDoSing the AUR due to bugs, etc.)

I have not tried NixOS yet, but I keep seeing it recommended, so I'll have to try it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Linux Mint Cinnamon. Seriously, it's the best. Fast, light, Ubuntu based, stable, good looking, full featured. All the power of Ubuntu without the downsides (snaps, heavy, slow etc)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I need to settle on one for a bit. I like Fedora for it’s edge stability and embracing newer secure technology. But, I will be shifting to Debian 12 or Ubuntu LTS because I need to get real work done. I like Pop and Mint, but they don’t have secure boot which I desire.

I’ll probably enjoy arch when I get the time to play with it more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What do you mean you need to do real work done that cannot be done on Fedora?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nobara on my desktop, Pop_os! on my laptop. As soon as the new COSMIC DE is ready I will switch to Pop on my desktop as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Arch for the last 8ish years. I'm interested in switching to something immutable and with a declarative package manager, but every time I try something else I end up back on arch. It works and has all the packages I use ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I used Feren OS for a long time, but now i prefer Cachy OS and Vanilla Arch on my laptop, both with KDE Plasma

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Here's an incomplete list of my daily drivers since...well, I'm old.

  • QNX Neutrino
  • Mandrake 7.2
  • RedHat 7.1
  • Went back to Windoze for quite a while
  • Gentoo
  • Ubuntu (quite a leap there)
  • OS X
  • Linux Mint
  • Debian
  • LMDE
  • Fedora
  • KDE Neon
  • macOS
  • Fedora Asahi

I'm sure I've missed the odd one or two (and I regularly jumped back and forth with Debian/Ubuntu/Mint for years and years).

I used to distro hop a lot, so if I only used it for less than a month, I haven't bothered to list it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Zorin OS. No muss, no fuss. I've been wanting to hop to Endeavor or Pop! just to do something different.

I mainly play games and watch movies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Trisquel GNU / Linux. The kernel is 100% libre so you can do your computing in freedom.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

For me it's tumbleweed at the moment it's defaults like btrfs and snapper are how I used to setup fedora. Then there's the tools like OBS and yast that are super useful it's rolling but well tested before it gets to you

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Modified Ubuntu, Snap-less...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'll only mention it because I haven't seen it yet, I just installed endeavor os and it's been pretty Great

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Fedora Workstation. It's fast and stable.

Everything I use is available either as a Flatpak or a RPM.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For now, it's Debian 12 with KDE Plasma. But I'm really interested in Immutable Systems. I like OpenSuse Kapla, but the KDE Integration is still in alpha. There are still a few shortcomings with the only flatpak approach, like the fact that the Steam Flatpak can't provide smooth wireless controller support because of lacking permissions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I've found success installing Steam and other stuff using distrobox on openSUSE Kalpa. The initial setup isn't as easy as installing a flatpak, but after a quick distrobox-export it's totally seamless.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Every time I try something different I always come back to arch + swaywm

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

OpenSuse leap

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Trisquel GNU+Linux on my Librebooted ThinkPad X200

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Manjaro with KDE. I've only been running Linux for a month, and found Arch a bit intimidating, so to me Manjaro was the closest I dare fly to the sun. Really liking it so far.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Vanilla ass Ubuntu. I spent 25 years finding the right distro, this is good enough. My first love was Mandrake.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

POP!_OS is amazing. It started out as a way for System76 to create an Ubuntu operating system image that had all the latest packages that they would need for their hardware but then grew into something much bigger. They have a plan for Wayland with cosmic-epoch and they ship the latest kernel (6.4.6 as of writing) and latest Mesa. It's solely responsible for killing my distro hopping (as well as having GNU Guix and Flatpak).

Watch this snippet on where POP!_OS came from (invidious link)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Arch on my main pc, and Ubuntu on my server, only reason it's Ubuntu is I needed 6.2 kernel for my Intel arc encoding card and debian based for the arrs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Linux Mint because it just works.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Linux Mint. Seriously, seriously good. Very fast, very light, looks amazing, has full access to all Ubuntu apps, runs Flatpak, is stable and solid. Sane defaults across the system.

Highly recommend it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Void linux became my second nature. It's design is great, runit and xbps are just awesome. Can't recomend more. P.S. I also switched to Void from Fedora

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Switched from Ubuntu to fedora recently.. I'm pretty happy with it and it's package manager

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