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

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[–] experimentmapass@social.trom.tf 1 points 2 years ago

@bbsm3678 You should try TROMjaro, and all linux distros should take example from it.

[–] istdaslol@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Elementary It’s just like Mint but I had way less issues than with any other distros.

[–] true_blue@lemmy.comfysnug.space 1 points 2 years ago

Fedora (with Plasma) and I don't plan on moving to another distro until something tangible happens. Switching my distro based on hypothetical situations would keep me from ever staying on any distro for very long.

That being said if I had to use another distro, I feel like I'd try out Debian stable, while using Flatpaks and Distrobox to get up-to-date software. That feels like it would be a good approximation of the excellent middleground that Fedora has.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I use Manjaro but I might switch when CosmicDE launches on Pop!, especially if they get graphics switching working nicely on Wayland.

I use Debian with kde and its been great. Went from debian 11 to debian 12 without reinstall and then use void and devuan on my other computers and arch mobile on pinephone.

[–] greyfrog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] potajito@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Endeavour os with kde! Used to run manjaro and I think it's a good stepping stone, so you know what you like and not, what to keep... For example, I didn't know about oh my zhs and p10k, and if it wasn't for manjaro I wouldn't have know about that and owils be running the default bash console.

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