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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] 2 points 1 year ago

PoP_OS MX Linux LMDE

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

I'm also on Fedora and love it, but I'm thinking of switching to OpenMandriva ROME. OpenSUSE's Tumbleweed is another option.

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

For all the praise I give Debian, I still just run Kubuntu and call it a day.

It's not that Debian's particularly hard to install or set up (pretty quick and easy after you've done it enough times, though there is also the Live CD with Calamares for an easier install), and it's honestly better than (*)Ubuntu in terms of official repos (at least Sid is), but I sometimes just find it simpler to install Kubuntu, unsnap it, remove apport, and get on with everything else.

Maybe I'll go MX or something at some point and just enable systemd because I use it and out of the "anti-systemd" distros, it's the most "hey, if you want to use systemd, no prob".

Actually, for Debian, another good option is Spiral Linux. It's basically just Debian, but with btrfs, snapshots, and zRAM all set up (from the same dude who does GeckoLinux, so very familiar with btrfs). Maybe once the new Bookworm-based ISO is up, I'll switch over.

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

I have used Gecko in the past. I really liked it. I'll be checking out spiral linux now. Thanks

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

Kde neon, latest Plasma on a stable ubuntu.

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

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

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

Arch on everything with a screen. NixOS on everything without.

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

Endeavour os with kde! Used to run manjaro and I think it's a good stepping stone, so you know what you like and not, what to keep... For example, I didn't know about oh my zhs and p10k, and if it wasn't for manjaro I wouldn't have know about that and owils be running the default bash console.

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

Used Arch for over 5 years. I don't know if having a child changed me but I realised I'd lost a lot of time I had that I spent just fiddling with configs to get stufftpo my liking so went from Arch xmonad to PopOs and Gnome.

It has been stable and doesn't have the snap bullshit that comes with Ubuntu.

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

Elementary It’s just like Mint but I had way less issues than with any other distros.

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

I use Manjaro but I might switch when CosmicDE launches on Pop!, especially if they get graphics switching working nicely on Wayland.

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

I use Debian with kde and its been great. Went from debian 11 to debian 12 without reinstall and then use void and devuan on my other computers and arch mobile on pinephone.

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

Nixos. Can't even fathom going back to anything after getting to grips with it

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

I'm pretty happy on Ultramarine. Its like Fedora but with more repos by default, media drivers, more DE options, and a bunch of more reasonable defaults for daily all-purpose use.

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