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.

  • Southern Wolf@pawb.social
    12·
    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.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml
      21·
      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
        21·
        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.

  • DniMam@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    You should start with :

    • which DE you use ?
    • what release model you want ?
    • immutable or not ?
  • Codename_goose@sh.itjust.worksOP
    52·
    1 year 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.

  • Yote.zip@pawb.social
    2·
    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.

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

      Because the OP specifically wanted something as close as possible to Fedora, and is moving away from Fedora because of Red Hat’s antics. SUSE is not Red Hat. I don’t want to impart an unfounded paranoia that all company distros are bad onto a user who may not hold that opinion.

      They can decide if they accept a SUSE-related distro instead, or move onto my next recommendation, Linux Mint, if they don’t.

  • echo@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

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

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml
    21·
    1 year 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.
  • NoRecognition84@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year 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.

  • 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