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.

  • 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.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml
      0·
      1 year ago

      That’s funny. When the maintainer of AT&T unix’s perf group was looking at a distro to clone and support, RPM>Deb was 90% why debs were excluded.

      Maybe something changed dramatically since then.

      • shermozle@lemmy.sdf.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        You mean Adrian? He’s an odd duck and I wouldn’t take his choices at this level as anything other than some obscure tiny performance improvement.

        My issue with RPM is even the official packages didn’t put files where the standard they wrote said. Admittedly I haven’t used an RPM distro in 20 years so it’s possible things have changed.

  • Southern Wolf@pawb.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    If you’re going for a similar Fedora-like experience, with it being a rolling release that is still stable, then OpenSuse Tumbleweed is definitely you’re best bet.

    Now, if the rolling release nature is something you’re less attached to, then some good options would be Pop!_OS (especially if you have an Nvidia card), another Ubuntu-spin like Kubuntu perhaps or even KDE Neon, and maybe Debian 12. Though for the last one, although it’s a fantastic distro, it looks nice, new, and shiny now, but in 6-12 months when you’re not even half way through the Debian upgrade cycle and still on old software, will that bother you? If the answer is yes, then look elsewhere. Otherwise, Debian 12 may be a good choice for you as well.

  • fubo@lemmy.world
    1·
    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?

  • lfromanini@feddit.nl
    1·
    1 year ago

    Personally, I use Debian, but it’s a different approach from Fedora. My suggestion for you is to try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It’s a rolling release, which means bleeding edge software as Fedora, it’s RPM based and it’s easy to rollback in case of an update breaks something. As I said, not my type of distro (I want 0 breaks), but I used OpenSUSE once while distro hopping and it’s a good distro.

  • topnomi@kbin.social
    1·
    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.

  • echo@lemmy.ml
    0·
    1 year ago

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

  • Yote.zip@pawb.social
    0·
    1 year 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.

  • Raphael@lemmy.world
    11·
    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