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Considering switching away from Fedora and to another distribution. Does anyone have any suggestions for distributions I should consider?

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[–] dallen@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Unpopular choice here but Ubuntu LTS with ubuntu-debullshit (vanilla gnome, replace snap with flatpak).

My main factors:

  • stability of the LTS
  • drivers and HW support
  • tons of resources online
  • already use Ubuntu for servers and Raspian on my Pi

I’ve had my fun distro hopping in the past but I just want a low maintenance system nowadays.

[–] Veraxus@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ohhh, I'll have to check this out. I've been gradually moving away from Ubuntu toward Debian for a while because Snap is hot garbage and I don't want to have anything to do with it. Were it not for Snap, I still really like Ubuntu.

[–] AProfessional@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Drivers are the weak spot of Ubuntu LTS, even with HWE the kernel and Mesa are outdated compared to Fedora.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

How does this differ from Debian+GNOME? I'm not familiar enough with exactly what Canonical adds to Debian to know.