I settled on PopOS, easy to use, just working OS
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
62 points (91.9% liked)
Linux
48023 readers
994 users here now
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
Rules
- Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
- No misinformation
- No NSFW content
- No hate speech, bigotry, etc
Related Communities
Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
I think if you want meaningful recommendations, you have to say:
- why you want to get away from Fedora
- what you liked about Fedora that kept you there until now
- what you hope you'd get from a new distro
- any nonstarters that would keep you away from a distro
Without knowing those things, it's just going to be people proselytizing their favorite distros rather than suggesting one that will fit what you're looking for.
Also the color of his panties and his favorite soccer team.
I'm wearing black.
I'm on Debian at the moment.
Which DE do you use? Sadly, on KDE Debian is quite bloated but there's a trick, I deselected KDE when installing Debian.
Naturally, I booted into a blackscreen but after entering my credentials I ran the following command: sudo apt install kde-plasma-desktop
I rebooted into a beautiful and minimal Plasma desktop, it doesn't even have a calculator but it still comes with a few questionable applications installed. From there I just set up flathub and I'm all flatpak.
I used this page, check the page for your favorite DE/WM: https://wiki.debian.org/KDE
I am considering Mint Debian version. Dtable and up to date desktop environment with flatpacks.
Consider PCLinuxOS. 'PLOS' has the same look and feel of the ent Linuxes, but
-
as a child of mageia/mandriva from mandrake and conectiva, it's derivation from RH is super long ago so it's closer to rhel5 for well-built well-tested tools.
-
it has maaaaassive lib/app support range, like Axel Rose's vocal range compared to EL's Bruce Springsteen. No stream or other crap shenanigans aside from etc/alternatives.
-
No systemd. Weird how startups are fast and reliable
It can yum cron like a badass.
Caveats:
- if you liked building vagrants on mageia, you need to help them on pclos. They have no clue there, and the skillet seems to be fading fast.
- people who support sysv startup are getting more lazy and ditching it.
- people who support last week's version of anything are no more prevalent in pclos, so there's no magical fix for "10 second tom" devs here either.