I’m in the market to find a new distro that is similar enough to Fedora that switching won’t be as laborious as I’ve had it before. I keep hearing POP!_os is a good choice but I’m going to as the community what they think is good.
Personally, I use Debian, but it’s a different approach from Fedora. My suggestion for you is to try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It’s a rolling release, which means bleeding edge software as Fedora, it’s RPM based and it’s easy to rollback in case of an update breaks something. As I said, not my type of distro (I want 0 breaks), but I used OpenSUSE once while distro hopping and it’s a good distro.
This sounds like what I’m looking for. What is their support for steam, blender, AMD CPU/GPU support, and do they use flatpak, or is it more of an APK setup?
My computer is a Ryzen with AMD GPU as well. Drivers are embedded on kernel, so any distro should fit. Flatpak works fine too, but of course, you will need to install it and add Flathub - simple, but needed ( https://flathub.org/setup/openSUSE ). Steam runs fine, if I remember well. Blender I don’t know, I never used.
openSUSE does support FlatPak, just follow the Wiki entry. There is also a wiki entry about Steam Blender is in the repositories. Also keep in mind that they stance about multimedia codecs is the same as Fedora. Please consusult this wiki entry for more information. I have to say that openSUSE Tumbleweed is a fantastic distro. It is rolling release, but it is also using OpenQA to make sure nothing breaks during updates. Hope this helps.
I’m going to throw my hat in the ring for Pop_OS. The company that maintains it is focused almost exclusively on desktop use so it excels at this better than many other distros that have kind of a split focus on all the things. Their power manager is the best in terms of laptop battery management if you’re using a laptop. The distro is also flatpak focused. There’s even a utility in startup apps by default called “Flatpak Transition” which checks for deprecated deb packages and lets you know if there’s a Flatpak that satisfies it.
Updates seem to come fast but not as fast as a full rolling release. No major changes lately because, as others note, they’re working on a HUGE change to the distro to make their own DE. Rumors are circling this might come with a re-base of the distro off Ubuntu. Unfounded as far as I know but it would make a lot of sense.
I’ve been running Pop on my desktop and laptop exclusively for going on a couple years now. Rock solid.
Any specific reason why you’d like to move away from Fedora? It’s an amazing distro, all things considered.
Don’t get me wrong. I love Fedora, but with the things they’ve done recently, I really don’t think what I want from an OS and RH wants are the same anymore. I’d prefer to separate from them while I have the opportunity before I’m invested to the point of staying because it’s too hard to migrate.
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I am a regarded linux user but my understanding is that they cutting ability of the community to package certain sections from RHEL
When someone tells you Fedora is
completely independent from redhat.
You ignore them.
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There is context, you just need to step outside of your rock and see the rest of the posts at /c/linux
There are MULTIPLE threads touching the subject, in the front page. Stop being so lazy.
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HHAHAHAHHAHA
Do you live under a rock?
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All the red hat turmoil, there are plenty of posts here on lemmy
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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 recently moved from Linux mint to opensuse tumbleweed and I’ve been VERY happy. Super stable. Even through multiple dist-upgrades.
Nobara?
Still fedora based
Still fedora based
Hence the question mark. OP gave no reasons as to why not Fedora.
You should start with :
- which DE you use ?
- what release model you want ?
- immutable or not ?
Arch BTW.
I plan to move to EndeavourOS, because I cannot be bothered to install Arch and wanted something (b)leading edge, but community based. Already installed on my laptop, looking good so far.
Kind of unfortunate that there are no true community driven rpm distros :(
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.
In a similar situation. I’ve been looking at open suse tumble weed and endeavourOS.
Installed pop on my wife’s computer last week and I’m pretty impressed, I’m not the biggest gnome fan though so I don’t think it would be for me.
Can also vouch for Pop_OS .Can’t tell how much having recovery partition added saved me from reinstalling os again :)
I’m wondering if Universal Blue will be impacted if Redhat pulls a CoreOS move on Fedora. If not, that’d be quite a seamless switch.
Literally any Debian distribution with the exact same window manager service you were using in Fedora would be essentially as if you never switched away at all.
Fedora is close to bleeding edge. Debian is using old relics.
If you never touch the command line yeah, but how many of us Fedora users don’t do that?
Without saying why you are leaving Fedora, it’s not really possible to advise you… whatever we recommend may have the same mystery issue you are trying to escape.
Im guessing its related to recent Red Hat antics.