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.

  • echo@lemmy.ml
    7·
    1 year ago

    Any specific reason why you’d like to move away from Fedora? It’s an amazing distro, all things considered.

  • Tekchip@kbin.social
    71·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • topnomi@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    I recently moved from Linux mint to opensuse tumbleweed and I’ve been VERY happy. Super stable. Even through multiple dist-upgrades.

  • DniMam@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    You should start with :

    • which DE you use ?
    • what release model you want ?
    • immutable or not ?
  • RoboRay@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Raphael@lemmy.world
    31·
    1 year ago

    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

  • 4L3moNemo@programming.dev
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

    deb or any other kind linux is a way to go.

    • 4L3moNemo@programming.dev
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • 4L3moNemo@programming.dev
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • fubo@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been using Pop! for years, having been a user of Debian, Ubuntu, and Mint previously. It pretty much just works as far as I can tell. Are there specific things you’re looking for?

  • estebanlm@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    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 ;)

  • BaroqueInMind@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • NoRecognition84@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • -spam-@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.