This is bad advice tho. Friend of mine did the same and ChatGPT said some bullshit and he locked himself out of gui. Had to help him to get it back. Please dont just copy paste anything from ChatGPT
Been using Gentoo little under 20 years. I used Arch for few years in between, but switched back. I’d say all I’ve learned about Linux is via using Gentoo.
I don’t really see Fedora users needing to worry. Fedora is upstream of CentOS Stream and RHEL, so Red Hat will probably love to continue to have Fedora users being their space monkeys / lab rats to find/fix bugs in the OS before pushing to CentOS Stream. Why lose the free labor?
Lab rats is a strong term (not wrong by any means) but people seem to forget that Red Hat is also one of the big players trying to make Desktop Linux better. And when Fedora users report bugs to Red Hat, they fix the bugs not only for themselves, but for the entire Linux Desktop community (they are large contributors to the GNOME Project, as well as making efforts to make Wayland better). Their decisions as a company may be causing community backlash, but without those big players (Canonical, SUSE, Red Hat) Desktop Linux wouldn’t be nearly as good as it is today. I see Fedora as a Debian, but company-backed (say what you want about this statement, but the Fedora desktop experience has been the same for a while, and will not change any time soon.) Fedora is also a Project, not a Product. A distinction that Red Hat takes seriously. Fedora is not profitable to Red Hat (the bug-fixes, as I stated above, benefits everyone in the Linux community, not Red Hat alone), that’s why it’s 100% free (both as in freedom and as in beer). Also, they have full-time employees working on GNOME and Wayland
I started using Fedora after RH killed CentOS, mainly for this reason. However now I feel bit differently about all of this.
At the end of the day, it’s clear RH is not doing this out of good of their heart. They are looking for mutually beneficial relationship, yes. But importantly they are also steering the Linux ecosystem towards that mutually beneficial direction.
And I no longer feel like I can support that. I don’t trust Red Hat as a company to keep innovating and improving the ecosystem in such way it is truly mutually beneficial in long term. I expect that they are mainly interested in directions that benefit RHEL, and allow RHEL to maintain commercially viable, private codebase.
I think that without pushback, they will make desktop linux like so many other Open Source projects: in practice the commercial product is the only really working and well-rounded implementation, because developing alternatives is very complex and requires so much developer time.
So I’d much prefer sending my bug reports to some other community with some other domain. And I’d like to contribute towards pushing the mutually beneficial relationship to a direction where RHEL is just another distribution, and Gnome just another DE. I don’t want a future where it makes sense to say a user is missing Gnome-functionality or RHEL-features, when discussing software that has no reason to be exclusive to either.
If RH is the primary developer of Fedora, and Fedora is the exclusive testbed for desktop-linux, I feel like that’s likely to happen.
Definitely Ubuntu, it’s the most user friendly for people coming from other OSes
I’d say Ubuntu again, or maybe Debian. You built up skill and learnt the distro so you want to use something you know for work. On your personal computer, try other ones. I personally picked Arch at this time (around 2012), which helped me “understand” how the OS works, rather than simply use it. I reinstalled it quite a few times and broke the system a lot.
Any distro with a simple package management system. My personal choice goes to crux, but it’s very barebones. NixOS or Gentoo would be fine too The point here is to learn how to build packages by building them yourself, and I feel like the “big” packages managers (apt, yum, dnf) are too complex for that. They also decorelate runtime libraries from headers files, which is a pain to work with as a développer IMO.
But it’s just my personal experience, many new distro popped up since then. Also for reference, I’ve been using Linux for 12 years now, and I run Crux on my desktop, Ubuntu at work, and OpenBSD on my servers.
I have tried both PopOs and Manjaro. I dont really like both of them.
For Manjaro, I used one of the community edition repacks and many of my peripherals failed to work on boot like Wifi and keyboard. Unfortunately, the week I installed Manjaro was also the week the forums went down so that made things way worse.
PopOs felt quite buggy. I used to postpone every kernel upgrade by at least 2 weeks as something would always break after.
Currently I’m using Linux Mint and everything just works. If I were to start over I would go with Mint, Ubuntu or Fedora. I have found the WM and workflow that I’m comfortable with and would like to just be on a distro that works.
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