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

    • A Mouse@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I live on the more unstable side, I like Debian Unstable/Sid. I also recommend Siduction as it’s based on Debian Unstable.

        • mfn@mfn.pub
          5·
          2 years ago

          Debian not recommends testing for everyday using. You definetely have to look at the site. Afaik it is basically a bad version of unstable that gets slow updates and it is only for testing purposes.

          • danielton@lemmy.world
            3·
            2 years ago

            Yes, this is correct. The way Testing works, it is very possible (indeed, likely) that you could be stuck with a security vulnerability for weeks. You should use either stable or unstable.

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    22·
    2 years ago

    Mint, because it works with a minimum of effort.

    OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, because it’s more up to date than Mint, it’s a rolling distro, it works, and in the rare event of a problem it’s easy to roll back to a snapshot.

  • CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml
    18·
    2 years ago

    Arch Linux

    Reasons:

    • Pacman
    • the AUR
    • community driven
    • bleeding edge
    • pragmatic stance regarding closed source software
    • sane defaults
    • minimalism, build your own without too much compiling
    • the wiki
    • Dandroid@dandroid.app
      2·
      2 years ago

      My steam deck uses arch btw, and the main reason I didn’t choose arch for my laptop was because I haven’t had good experience with pacman. But I’ll be honest that I haven’t given it much of a chance, so I’d like to learn more. What is it that you like about pacman?

  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    2 years ago

    Arch.

    People think it’s really challenging and brittle, but everything seems to always work no matter how often I update (or don’t) and the wiki is top notch.

    I actually chose arch initially because when you go to forums to troubleshoot problems there is always an ubuntu answer and an arch answer, and the arch answer is almost always shorter.

  • dallen@programming.dev
    9·
    2 years ago

    Unpopular choice here but Ubuntu LTS with ubuntu-debullshit (vanilla gnome, replace snap with flatpak).

    My main factors:

    • stability of the LTS
    • drivers and HW support
    • tons of resources online
    • already use Ubuntu for servers and Raspian on my Pi

    I’ve had my fun distro hopping in the past but I just want a low maintenance system nowadays.

    • Veraxus@kbin.social
      5·
      2 years ago

      Ohhh, I’ll have to check this out. I’ve been gradually moving away from Ubuntu toward Debian (w/ GNOME) for a while because Snap is hot garbage and I don’t want to have anything to do with it. Were it not for Snap, I still really like Ubuntu.

    • AProfessional@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Drivers are the weak spot of Ubuntu LTS, even with HWE the kernel and Mesa are outdated compared to Fedora.

  • dark_stang@beehaw.org
    7·
    2 years ago

    Pop_os for my laptop and desktop. I use these machines for dev work and gaming. I want to spend as little time as possible doing maintenance. Debian for all servers and containers. Very stable, maintenance doesn’t take much effort.

    If I was running a pure gaming system I’d probably go with Arch.

  • derrg@yiffit.netEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    Pop!_OS. Sensible defaults and it’s based off of Ubuntu, which is the distro I’m most familiar with.

    • chi-chan~@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      - Pacman(!)

      - Minimalistic approach

      - ArchWiki

      - AUR

      - Rolling-release model

      - Bleeding-edge softwares

      - Community that would call me out if I didn’t read the wiki (yes, IMO it’s a positive)

  • pgetsos@kbin.social
    6·
    2 years ago

    I have been running OpenSUSE Leap on my home server for 3 years, and I moved from Fedora after many years to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on both my work and home (gaming) PC. I am super happy!

    • Dandroid@dandroid.app
      1·
      2 years ago

      Tried it for the first time last week. I was hesitant because I’m forced into SLES for work, and I fucking hate it. But thats because all of the default configs for all packages are overly secure. Like, installing apache required a ton of extra steps to allow HTTP traffic. But I needed to test both HTTP and HTTPS for the feature I was working on, so I needed HTTP.

      But overall I have been very happy with Tumbleweed. I like that the packages are more up to date than Ubuntu LTS (what I was using previously), and I haven’t had as many driver issues either. Oh, and snapshots are amazing. It already saved me once when I accidentally deleted the wrong config file, I just cp’d it from my last snapshot.

  • Veraxus@kbin.social
    61·
    2 years ago

    Debian + GNOME.

    Historically I’ve been a huge fan of Ubuntu, but I just can’t tolerate Snap any more and started moving away from Ubuntu in general.