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.
I used Debian full-time eons ago, but last time I tried in 2019, it was a dog of a desktop OS to me compared to Fedora. It works fine as a server, but it's simply not a great desktop.
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.
That’s your chance to turn away from rpm/RHEL distros and run without looking back. As last 20 years history shows, that branch of linux OS is either dying off on hands, leaving you without suport, either makes migration path complicated by a need to change distro. Like it was with centos +5…10 years, oh no … -> maybe fedora -> oh no … -> whatever whocares rpm pop/rocky/alma name it … Thats it, beat it, no more this shit.
I regred for still having to suport several old centos servers during the last decade. Still regret of having to do lots of co-hosted old projects migrations from one of these – for lost time, money.
Have never regreted for any debian based one during the last 20 years. Have switched desktops ~10 years ago too. Before, been hardcore rpm distros fan – desktop: fedora, later suse; servers: centos, sometimes fedora. Lucky to have used deb distros for servers too, that made at least part of the bussiness stay stabile.
Argh, tired of that rpm’ers shit – paths differ, config locations differ, you got to learn relearn on each swich again.
As for deb distros, they been for me more stable in that concern – life long know-how reusability, muscle memory, old notes of shell snipets still valid. Decade old servers, current ones, LTS (long term support) desktop distro or last dev edition don’t difer much from point of view of fs organization and if differ at anything these are small evolutionary changes. My main argument reusability of know-how and “muscle memory” between desktop and servers and during the years, and growing reusable know-how during the years on top of that.
I switched back in 2005 (I think), because Windows XP didn’t have the drivers for being installed on an S-ATA drive and SUSE could be installed without any hassle. I feel very old.
My dad always tells me about how it drove him insane for days that Windows XP couldn’t detect the HDD, but it showed up totally fine in BIOS. He ended up taking it to a computer shop, and the bastards didn’t even tell him about the F6 floppy (instead they charged him double what was quoted because their techs had to ‘learn how to do it’).
It was only because they somehow even screwed that up, what should have been a simple setup of Windows XP, and he had to reinstall, that he finally learned from the internet that he needed the F6 floppy.
Yeah, it was nicknamed the F6 floppy because Windows XP setup would say “Press F6 to load a SCSI driver” and you would hit that, select the driver from your floppy, and continue setup.
I’ve even seen vendor’s websites call it F6 Driver because the unofficial name was so ubiquitous
To be fair I remember that prompt, and if I was playing around with some fancy new HDD configuration and the customer bought in a job as “install windows because I can’t even” the ball would have dropped on the first go and I would have worked it out pretty fast I reckon. No way I would have jacked up the price on your dad.
Yeah, I work at a (much more legitimate) computer shop and we wouldn’t have up charged on that either. What we quote is what we quote, even if it blows out to 10 hours instead of 1, that’s on us not on the customer.
That computer shop my Dad went to, he learned afterwards from study mates that the shop had done that to multiple people for various different jobs, and they’re constantly changing names but I’m pretty sure it’s the same business running even today.
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.
Pop OS is not a bad choice. Only thing about it is the version of Gnome it has is a little old and it will stay that way until they come out with their own Rust-based DE.
I did a few small corrections in the area I live. I removed a public road that wasn’t a road but a private paved path. I got heavily criticized in a PM by another member for doing so. Haven’t bothered doing anything since
Editing since people are correction me. Perhaps path is the wrong word to have used. Driveway would probably be more suitable.
Long ago I started my city when there was nothing.
I did poor job, but I mapped streets in parts of the city I lived until then.
One or two years ago people fixed my mistakes and mapped the rest of the city. I consider it huge success, so just start and others will come and add more details.
It was great feeling, calming and fun. And addicting.
Haven’t done anything recent since all locations I am familiar with are now mapped to great details.
Huh. I’m sorry that was your reception. They should have been helpful towards a new member of the community. It looks like they should have redirected you to the access=private article.
I like Manjaro Gnome. I changed the maui shell for the gnome shell and everything is looking great, and as close to vanilla gnome as possible (which is what I liked from Fedora :P) is not the same package system, but is very neat ;)
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