Hey all, I’ve been thinking about making the jump from Windows to Linux as my daily-driver and I’ve been struggling on what distro to use.

On my laptop I’ve been using Fedora’s KDE Spin for a bit but I can’t say I really like KDE all that much. I took that Distrochooser test and 9/10 of the suggestions were all Ubuntu-based or Arch-based for some reason lol.

I would prefer a distro that “just works” but I’m not scared of having to troubleshoot or fix things. I guess I’m just looking to see what everyone else uses and what you all recommend. Thanks!

  • Glitchington
    11·
    9 months ago

    I had to bail from Fedora when they pulled the video codecs from RPM. It may be fixed, but the threat of pulling a tool from the repository still lingers in my mind.

    • hperrin
      30·
      9 months ago9 months ago

      The video codecs are in rpmfusion, which is available as a checkbox called “Third Party Repositories” in the setup wizard.

      • Glitchington
        10·
        9 months ago

        Ah, they were being pulled from RPM fusion at one point if I recall. It didn’t go through, but the fact that it was even being discussed told me all I needed to know.

      • d_k_bo
        10·
        9 months ago9 months ago

        There was an issue in the past where the regular mesa-* packages and the mesa-*-freeworld were out of sync which resulted in no longer working DEs for many people if they updated at the wrong time.

        Is this still an issue?

        (I went back to the regular drivers since I mostly use VP8/9 anyway)

        • hperrin
          10·
          9 months ago

          I have never had that issue. I’ve been on Fedora for a year, so it’s not been an issue since at least then.