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Migrating away from Fedora, looking for advice. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m in the market to find a new distro that is similar enough to Fedora that switching won’t be as laborious as I’ve had it before. I keep hearing POP!_os is a good choice but I’m going to as the community what they think is good.

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

I don't understand recommending an another company distro to user who is happy with using Fedora but want to change it just because it is a company distro. (They both are actually community projects but let's ignore it for the purpose of this discussion)

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

Because the OP specifically wanted something as close as possible to Fedora, and is moving away from Fedora because of Red Hat's antics. SUSE is not Red Hat. I don't want to impart an unfounded paranoia that all company distros are bad onto a user who may not hold that opinion.

They can decide if they accept a SUSE-related distro instead, or move onto my next recommendation, Linux Mint, if they don't.