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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.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml 2 points 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.
[–] estebanlm@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year 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 ;)

[–] Wheeljack@nerdbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think if you want meaningful recommendations, you have to say:

  • why you want to get away from Fedora
  • what you liked about Fedora that kept you there until now
  • what you hope you'd get from a new distro
  • any nonstarters that would keep you away from a distro

Without knowing those things, it's just going to be people proselytizing their favorite distros rather than suggesting one that will fit what you're looking for.

[–] Raphael@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Also the color of his panties and his favorite soccer team.

I'm wearing black.

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