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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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[–] Jontique@lemmy.world 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.

[–] fox@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Been using PopOS for the last 2 years (ish) with zero issues. It's been a delight!

[–] danielfgom@lemmy.world 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)

[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 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.

[–] FQQD@feddit.de 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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[–] frap129@lemmy.maples.dev 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)_/¯

[–] halo5@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Modified Ubuntu, Snap-less...

[–] amycatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Fedora Workstation. It's fast and stable.

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

[–] Jayb151@lemmy.world 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

[–] allywilson@sopuli.xyz 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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[–] Rhabuko@feddit.de 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.

[–] starkle@lemmy.one 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.

[–] skycat@beehaw.org 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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[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] astroturds@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

OpenSuse leap

[–] Markmus@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Trisquel GNU+Linux on my Librebooted ThinkPad X200

[–] jg1i@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Dranadia@lemm.ee 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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[–] sharktongue@lemmy.world 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.

[–] Owljfien@iusearchlinux.fyi 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

[–] Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Linux Mint because it just works.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 3 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

[–] danielfgom@lemmy.world 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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[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

If you are a KDE user or are interested in it, I've been running KDE Neon for a few months and don't plan on changing any time soon. Stable release, Ubuntu LTS based without the forced snaps (though snaps are in the repos if you want them), comes with the standard Ubuntu LTS repos and flatpak installed out of the box, with the one difference there being that it will update to the latest stable version of KDE software as it's released. Basically a de-snapped Kubuntu LTS with all the latest KDE stuff. Works great for me.

[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kde neon, latest Plasma on a stable ubuntu.

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[–] harl3k1n@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

blendOS because it gives you access to all the good stuff, including the AUR and even Android apps.

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