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
    5·
    2 years ago

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

  • DniMam@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    You should start with :

    • which DE you use ?
    • what release model you want ?
    • immutable or not ?
  • fubo@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years 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?

  • NoRecognition84@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years 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.

  • 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·
      2 years 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.

  • Raphael@lemmy.world
    31·
    2 years 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

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 years ago

    Consider PCLinuxOS. ‘PLOS’ has the same look and feel of the ent Linuxes, but

    • as a child of mageia/mandriva from mandrake and conectiva, it’s derivation from RH is super long ago so it’s closer to rhel5 for well-built well-tested tools.

    • it has maaaaassive lib/app support range, like Axel Rose’s vocal range compared to EL’s Bruce Springsteen. No stream or other crap shenanigans aside from etc/alternatives.

    • No systemd. Weird how startups are fast and reliable

    It can yum cron like a badass.

    Caveats:

    • if you liked building vagrants on mageia, you need to help them on pclos. They have no clue there, and the skillet seems to be fading fast.
    • people who support sysv startup are getting more lazy and ditching it.
    • people who support last week’s version of anything are no more prevalent in pclos, so there’s no magical fix for “10 second tom” devs here either.
  • estebanlm@lemmy.ml
    0·
    2 years 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 ;)

  • Codename_goose@sh.itjust.worksOP
    22·
    2 years ago

    Since I can’t edit my post (not sure why, just can’t) this parent post should help people.

    My leaving Fedora and by extension RH, mostly is about not supporting in any meaningful capacity any associated with RH. My hope is to find something similar to Fedora, I’m getting a lot of recommendations about OpenSUSE tumbleweed and endeavorOS. Since my setup is AMD CPU/GPU it seems while not the perfect choice POP!_OS isn’t for me. I think as long as the distro supports vanilla Gnome or as close as possible would be great.

    • Zangoose@lemmy.one
      3·
      2 years ago

      I may be misreading this, but POP!_OS will work more than fine on an AMD CPU/GPU, as will any modern Linux distro. However, for people that Nvidia’s proprietary drivers, POP!_OS also has pretty good integration out of the box that sets them apart from other distros (likely because the developer, System76, also makes laptops with Nvidia GPUs).

      That being said, I’ve been on EndeavourOS for the past year and a half and I really like it so far. It’s basically just arch but with a GUI installer and some extra theming/add-ons, which personally has worked great for me.

  • Yote.zip@pawb.social
    0·
    2 years ago

    I would recommend the following in descending order:

    1. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
    2. Linux Mint
    3. Debian Testing
    4. Debian Stable

    I think you’ll be right at home on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.