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How come Fedora is never mentioned in these sorts of posts? It's really beginner friendly.
Bazzite is an excellent spin on Fedora Atomic, gaming ready. It will usually get mentioned over plain Fedora
Yeah, Bazzite is basically Fedora on easy mode, with safety guardrails and helpful utilities preconfigured for linux noobs to have something that more or less 'just works'.
But, the neat part is that you can also use ... well they recently changed it from DistroBox to DistroShelf... but basically, by using that, you can also setup another, more 'hardcore'/'traditional' linux env within Bazzite, if you want to branch out into more complex things like developing and compiling your own software, as this containerized linux env allows you to manually fuck with specific dependencies, without breaking the core system itself; worst you can probably do is fuck up that env and then either learn how to fix it, or wipe it out and start over.
Bazzite also has a very straightforward install process, literally simpler and faster than Windows.
Yeah I'm incredibly impressed with Fedora. Rides the fine line of cutting edge, without tipping over, any time something matures enough to adopt, so it's still stable—which means I've found the typical Linux faffing about is optional if I want to do it, rather than mandatory, which isn't always the case for distros that adopt cutting edge sooner.
That said, distros that pioneer new stuff quickly can be fun in their own right, but right now I'm just happy to have that balance.
Another thing I've found is that it makes tinkering easier any time I want to try something new, since the whole distro tends to be on newer but still stable packages, so there's less breakage. That isn't always the case on Debian based distros which can sometimes be a little too conservative to make adopting newer things simple, or bleeding edge distros where things tend to break just by virtue of being bleeding edge.
It's quite literally the Goldilocks distro for me and my needs right now.
Nobora and bazzite run on fedora but have lots if gaming optimizations over standard fedora
I daily drive Fedora and if I had to guess, it's because you need to manually enable non free software repos and features. If you don't know what to look for, you can easily get frustrated by things like poor hardware acceleration in browsers (due to some codecs being nonfree and hence not available OOTB) and worse driver availability. IIRC you need to manually add the repos, you can't just toggle something in settings.
Other distros tend to bundle these things (or give you a direct toggle).
In my experience, as part of the install process you have the ability to click a big obvious button that says 'enable third party repositories' (which includes nonfree stuff)
Does that automatically setup RPMFusion? That's where most of the things I was talking about live. Last time I ran the installer was a few years ago (plus I use the KDE spin which maybe is a bit different) and I don't remembet an option to enable RPMFusion, so maybe it's changed.
Yes, rpmfusion is enabled if you select 'enable third party repositories' for proprietary NVIDIA drivers.
Oh got it, thanks for the correction! In that case it shouldn't be a blocker.
I think having an up to date kernel like Fedora does helps with peripheral usability while not updating packages so frequently as to run into crazy bugs. I guess that's why some gaming distros base themselves on Fedora.
Yep. This is a great answer, and the cure for it is to search “fedora after install” to get a list of the most common things you should install update and tweak.