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What is your preferred daily driver distribution? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by bbsm3678@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Efwis@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

EndeavourOS with KDE

Same systems as vanilla arch for packaging such as pacman and AUR

Archwiki instruction work without modification

Great forum community without the incessant RTFM

[–] wolandark@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Artix

[–] true_blue@lemmy.comfysnug.space 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I recently Switched to Fedora Gnome and have been liking it.

Lot more user friendly than Mint imo.

[–] happyhippo@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm old too :-/

CP/M
DOS
Windows3, 95, 98
BeOS
some Debian and Mandrake
Windows XP
Ubuntu (a long time)
Mint/Cinnamon (I hated it, it was quick, maybe a year)
MX/Xfce (since ~2016)

I may try Arch on a old laptop just to play with it.----

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[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neon right now i will try pop os when the new cosmic desktop drops

[–] nestEggParrot@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Has a release date been announced for cosmic?

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[–] istdaslol@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

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

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