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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Hi, I was here and asked about a few distros already, so here's a quick summary of my situation:

I'm thinking about what distro to put onto my new Laptop, which will be used for University, Work, and just general daily usage. I am currently using EndeavourOS on my main PC and have been decently satisfied, but I want to experiment more. I've already asked if Arch was fine for this situation, to which the answer was a general "Yes, but keep x in mind" and I've asked about NixOS, where the answer was generally a no.

I've been looking around a bit more, and now I'm kind of curious about Fedora, specifically the KDE spin (or i3, I haven't quite decided). It seems to be cutting edge, compared to Arch's (and by extension EndeavourOS's) bleeding edge, and I'm wondering what you all think of it. From what I can gather it has basically all traits which people used to enjoy in Ubuntu, before Canonical dropped the ball on that. While it's not rolling release, the stability improvements and user experience compared to something like Arch, or even a more comfortable fork like EndeavourOS, seem quite decent, but in your experience, does that make up for the lack of the AUR and reduced applicability of the Arch Wiki?

I'm curious to hear about your experiences and recommendations!

Edit: I feel like I need to clarify, I know about the difference between EndeavourOS and Arch, I mostly just brought it up as a note that I am somewhat familiar with arch-based systems, and as a question of if it'd be stupid to just go with raw Arch, as EndeavourOS is basically the same, but with a more comfortable installer. I should have specified that more clearly in the first place, my apologies.

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[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I use nobara it is fedora but with gaming and xwayland spesific tweaks and bleeding edge kernel and drivers but also it doesnmt have the difficult maintenance of arch because the only thing bleeding edge are the kernel and the drivers the rest is normal fedora, I also use distrobox to use AUR packages

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago

Consider immutable, I use ublue-kinoite (fedora spin 'with batteries') and use a distrobox Arch for the AUR and development, best of both worlds, rock stable main OS, cutting edge rolling release as needed. I've been very happy, and if you're using for uni and work, reliability should be a consideration.

[–] zeluko@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Went from debian to arch and oh boy i like it.
Bleeding edge for the latest features (most of them stable), Arch Wiki is awesome and the AUR is really nice to have for managing and installing software from external sources.

[–] TooLazyDidntName@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Ive never used arch for more than a week, I was an ubuntu user for the longest time before switching to fedora a few months ago. Ive never been happier with an OS. I'm using the KDE spin

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago

Fedora has lots of weird bugs in my experience, but some people seem to love it.

[–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Try fedora silverblue or kinoite and if you want access to aur use distrobox. The advantage is zero maintenance compared to arch where you have to have much mroe knowledge and time to setup your system and keep it up to date

[–] Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip 0 points 10 months ago

Honest answer: Gentoo with the new official binary package hosting.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

Fedora, Arch, or EndeavourOS? >>>> Debian + GNOME + Flatpak.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world -3 points 10 months ago

NixOS is actually the best for an experience. For the basic stuff it's easy enough, just put more programs into the system packages list to install some stuff

When you need to have older versions of packages while still having newest versions of others is where it really shines

[–] jaeme@lemmy.ml -3 points 10 months ago

Fedora KDE, if you want extra packages you can check RPMFusion, copr, Nix/Guix and Flatpak.

Arch (and also EndeavourOS) expect the user to be able to troubleshoot and solve problems themselves and also customize things as they want. You have the highest amount of freedom, but also the most responsibility.

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