Considering switching away from Fedora and to another distribution. Does anyone have any suggestions for distributions I should consider?
EndeavourOS, it just works really well and never breaks. The only time I had an issue was when I was using the Zen kernel and it locked up installing league of legends and watching a YouTube video at the same time. Using the mainline kernel though gives me no issues.
10 years of Arch and counting.
I’ve been a long time Debian user. Debian 12 has been almost a perfect release so far. Highly recommended.
So were Woody and Potato (memories…).
Woody was my first Linux distro ever! My family only had one PC with dialup at the time, and you could buy the entire repo on CD-ROM. I actually keep the CD images around in case I want to play with a VM and feel nostalgic.
I know the FSF wouldn’t approve, but I am glad that they include the firmware on the regular network install image now. I need it to connect to wi-fi.
I know they always offered one with the firmware, but you had to do some digging on cdimage.debian.org to find it.
Elementary It’s just like Mint but I had way less issues than with any other distros.
Void. I like xbps, and I prefer distros that make as few assumptions as possible.
btwOS.
I can’t tell you if it’s *your* cup of coffee. You should decide it by yourself.
- 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)
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
I was going to say Arch but I typically install EndeveavourOS these days ( lazy man’s Arch ).
What are your feelings about EndeveaourOS vs Arch vs Manjaro vs Garuda?
Sorry I did not see this sooner. EndeavourOS is my favourite by far. I loved Manjaro when I used it and thought detractors were exaggerating its problems. Then I had a string of problems all clearly linked to poor management and now I strongly recommend that nobody use Manjaro ever. Once I started to use EndeavourOS, I realized that Manjaro incompatibility with the AUR was causing me constant problems without me realizing it. I was attracted to Garuda and did use it for about a week. It was not for me in the end but that could just be preference.
The thing about EndeavourOS is that, once installed, it is essentially just Arch. There only only just over a dozen EndeavourOS packages on top of the 80,000 or so vanilla Arch ones. So, EndeavourOS is basically just easy to install with decent defaults. Manjaro has its own repos and they are incompatible with the AUR ( trust me ). Garuda departs from Arch a lot more. That could be good or bad depending on your preferences.
One thing that drives me away from Endeavour is that it bills itself as terminal centric and I am trying to go away from terminal hell that most Linux installs get to. Just in OpenSuse, I was having to dive in and debug xone when I just wanted to start playing rocket league. I used Linux as a daily driver from 2008 to 2012 and eventually bounced back to Windows due to wanting to play games. Every year I check back in with distros people recommend and I just don’t have the care to maintain a Linux install. I don’t need to maintain a Windows install, windows literally does it for me and very successfully in my experience.
They do bill themselves as terminal centric but honestly I do not get that.
The whole point of the distro relative to Arch is the graphical installer. It sets you up into a nicely configured desktop by default. There are graphical tools for configuring most things.
I think the main reason they say that is that there is no graphical package manager by default. So, even to install one, you need to use the command line at least once. They pre-install yay though so yay -S pamac-gtk or yay -S octopi will solve that problem ( I do not like pamac myself though ).
It is basically just Arch once installed though so I guess it has fewer tools built in than many distros.
Anyway, I don’t own EndeavourOS stock. No big deal if you prefer something else.
No worries, thanks for your input. I’ll certainly put Endeavour on the list to check out.
Linux Mint because it just works.
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.
You wouldn’t need too much config for arch and gnome.
The biggest selling point for Fedora IMO is the way it handles UEFI and Secure Boot. I haven’t found anything comparable. Securing the proprietary garbage running on your main board is critical regardless of your OS.
Can you elaborate or point me to some resources? I’d like to hear more about this because I’ve wondered for a while what to do about Secure Boot on my machine.
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Debian support it too. The kernel is secure boot ready and it’s very easy to sign nvidia kernel module with the default shipped key via mok.
I recently Switched to Fedora Gnome and have been liking it.
Lot more user friendly than Mint imo.
Still Arch on main desktop, but slowly moving towards NixOS everywhere.
Is NixOS the new Arch?
No
I read somewhere that NixOS users are really loud and act eerily similar to arch users.
(~I use nix btw~)
Trisquel GNU+Linux on my Librebooted ThinkPad X200
I try so dang hard not to use Linux Mint because I have been using off and on since 2008 but always come crawling back to it when I run into some esoteric issue on another distro. It just hits the sweet spot of what I understand computing to be. I have desperately tried to use various forms of arch. OpenSUSE, fedora, debian, and a whole host of others and eventually get frustrated for some probably solvable reason and go back to my sweet, my love, my wart covered X11 using, 5.15 running, stale boring life mate Mint.
