Like Ubuntu, I like that Fedora is backed by a big company. Fedora is quite good at pushing the Linux ecosystem forward and often adopts and pushes new technology before other distros (flatpaks, Wayland, pipewire, btrfs etc.) that all Linux distros eventually benefit from.

Ubuntu on the other hands seems to want to be the Microsoft of Linux… which is not a compliment. I’ve been put off by things like their pushing of snap packages.

I personally like the stock gnome (on a laptop) or kde (on a desktop) desktops over the cinnamon mint desktop (but mint is closer to windows). Fedora is pretty close to stock (gnome by default).

Fedora has great flatpak integration for installing apps (think App Store) which is my preferred way to do it. Mint has this as well.

Fedora also has semi rolling releases and constant updates, which I prefer over Linux Mint’s 2 year release cycles (this doesn’t matter for any software you install from flatpaks).

I wouldn’t recommend arch as a first distro imo. I don’t see what the advantage would be for a newbie.

Personally I would recommend Fedora.

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Yeah I find it a lot snappier in Fedora than on windows.

AFAIK Libreoffice only uses Java for limited things and isn’t a requirement.

Pretty sure it’s mostly C++

It’s great if you get used to it and put in the time to set it the way you want it. I find IDE’s very bloated.

May your vimrc be passed down through the ages

Oh yeah. But it doesn’t auto update like Firefox or something.

I really wish it did. On windows I use winget to update it.

There’s auto update?

I agree, I actually use Silverblue as well. The only thing I added was a script to auto update distrobox too.

Silverblue is my daily driver. Everything is in flatpaks, which update automatically, or in distrobox which I have a bash script that updates automatically.

System updates download in the background and just boot automatically the next time you boot up. I just ignore them.

Fedora is nicest when you use a lot of flatpaks imo. They just update constantly in the background without reboot.

Only system updates need reboot.

Weird. Nvidia? I’ve never had a crash either

I haven’t had much issue installing multiple.

The biggest problem I’ve had is if you then want to uninstall one. Usually have to start over.

Something like nixos might be able to handle that much better.

My thought exactly

I think that time has passed. Many distros default to wayland now.

Use Wayland unless you have issues.

Completely disagree

Great. Now do split panel!

Did you try to disable the load legacy rom option from that thread?

Virt-manager is my preferred but I only have integrated graphics anyway.