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The Distrochooser helps you to find the suitable Linux distribution based on your needs!

Quite a few posts about selecting a distro to use. Maybe it’s time to make that link a little more prominent?

  • onlinepersona@programming.devOPEnglish
    29·
    1 year ago

    Fedora is not for everyone. I think the assessment of that site is correct. When I first installed it, it came with KDE and Wayland installed. Wayland couldn’t share screens at the time and my webcam didn’t work. Which new user has the time to understand the difference between X11 and Wayland? I also wanted to install OBSStudio and finding an rpm repo was no fun at all.

    In the end, I uninstalled Fedora.

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    • throwawayish@lemmy.ml
      4·
      1 year ago

      I agree that Fedora’s habit for pushing (sometimes breaking) changes is definitely something to keep an eye out. However, it has been so good over the last (almost) two years. I would even argue that Fedora has become more self-conscious of the consequences and (especially) how this might affect their more casual user base.

      Btw, how long ago did you try out Fedora? FWIW, Fedora (Silverblue; to be more precise[1]) was the first distro that I’ve tried and while I’ve had some experiences with other distros over time (mostly through dual boot), Fedora (Atomic) seems to have become the distro I call home.

      1. It’s probably not as masochistic as you might think for a new user 😅. Though I’d have to say that it took some effort, control and discipline to not instantly go back to Windows (or any other Linux distro for that matter).
      • onlinepersona@programming.devOPEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Fedora must’ve been during COVID, because I can’t remember the year. If things are better now, then maybe distrochooser has to be updated. It’s on github, so if you believe it’s become user-friendly, do contribute.

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        • throwawayish@lemmy.ml
          4·
          1 year ago

          Fedora must’ve been during COVID, because I can’t remember the year.

          That explains a lot of why you felt that way about Fedora. Thank you for enlightening us on that!

          If things are better now, then maybe distrochooser has to be updated.

          Can’t agree more.

          It’s on github, so if you believe it’s become user-friendly, do contribute.

          Honestly, I’ve tried to contribute in the past; but it didn’t feel as if they got implemented. Perhaps the maintainer has implemented them without making it noticeable to met, but in its current iteration it doesn’t feel as if that’s case. I’ve since given up on it.