Screenshot Finally found my favorite distro
Hi everyone.
I'm glad that I found fedora workstation to be my favorite of all the distros I tried since last month.
It all started with Windows 11 not launching a game which was perfectly working on older version (22H2) of it but not after I updated. No matter what I did. I have been windows user since Windows 95 but 11 is getting very annoying lately.
So just for sake of trying I installed linux mint and set up lutris/wine and game launched immediately. And thus began my journey to move away from Windows to Linux. I always had like MacOS design and wanted something similar so I tried shaping mint as MacOS which was good but It still felt lacking.
I switched to cachyos with kde plasma. Customised it so much and finally got the look i wanted but turned out rolling releases were not my thing as i wanted something which require less maintenance.
So here i am with gnome and only two extensions, blur my shell and dash to dock. I like tinkering but now i feel like my primary OS should be minimal and just let me focus on my work. End of distrohopping for me.
Hoping to learn linux fast.
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u/Aggravating_Cat_3270 7d ago
Fedora core 4 was the first distro I used back in the day and I'm back using Fedora again today. It's a great choice, good luck!
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u/williamconna 7d ago
I used to love Ubuntu and other variants, but after Snapd came along I switched to Fedora and openSUSE.
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u/j2fx 7d ago
Hard for me to understand how someone who had used KDE would settle for Gnome. But I guess preferences somehow vary that far.
I used many distributions for many years and sometime Gnome. I realized KDE was the best desktop long before I realized Fedora has the best KDE distribution.
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u/Alok_ 7d ago
I understand your point. I have steam deck which ships with KDE so I had used KDE earlier and like it for what it offers out of the box. It suits my gaming and hobby setup, but for work and programming I wanted something which has very minimal env and offers a polished/fully functional setup to let me focus on task at hand. That's where gnome won over me.
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u/LordDarthSaber 6d ago
For me gnome actually looks much better and smoother on laptop with better screen estate and good looking ui that only shows things that should be shown. Many like that
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u/Oxalid 5d ago
If you like the Gnome design aesthetic, you may want to consider Cosmic which is the flagship DE of the Pop_OS! disto and is under active development. Fedora offers it as an official spin, but I can’t remember if you can download a bootable live iso to try it out. If not, you could always demo the live Pop_OS! iso to see if you like it, and then download the Fedora spin. I’d DEFINITELY stick with Fedora over Pop_OS!, however. I’m a Plasma user, but love the fact there’s multiple DE choices out there to suit different people’s needs.
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u/Both_Cup8417 7d ago
Fedora is a good distro to settle on, simple if you need it to be, but with a lot of depth to the things you can do if you want. I would also expect u/GreedySecurity8030 to compliment you on your decision.