Right now, it’s a tie between Fedora and Ubuntu.
The desktop experience in Fedora is much smoother than ubuntu (faster, and more things work out of the box, like touchpad gestures in Firefox). I’ve been with ubuntu since… 05.xx release? So it’s a bit of fear of changing habit keeping me back. I’m giving ubuntu another shot at 23.10 release and if it dosen’t appeal me, I’ll change.
But considering that I like the idea of immutable distros, I should learn NixOS. But considering the potential learning curve, I should go with Silverblue or ubuntu core when it’s out.
What’s holding you back from using Debian instead of Ubuntu? I found Debian to be relatively the same experience as using Ubuntu. NixOS seems interesting, but I honestly need to learn how to use Arch more first.
I’ve always percieved Debian as a more dull & outdated version of ubuntu. Bear in mind, this is only my perception. I like to have the latest and greatest, I like things working out of the box, I like new technologies such as Wayland and I think debian appeals to the “slow, stable and .conf-only” people.
Though I belive that debian ideals are more in line with mine than a company driven distro such as Ubuntu or Fedora.
Honestly I can say that Debian has improved a lot since then. I was a Ubuntu user for around 2-3 years and thought the same thing about Debian until I realized I was just too lazy to switch haha. I use KDE for my desktop and everything is smooth. No tinkering with .conf files or anything, just install it.
Unfortunately, I use a NVIDIA graphics card and I will say that Wayland and NVIDIA don’t seem to mix well. I run X11 instead and it works fine but it is a little slower. Definitely buying a AMD card after my current card meets its EOL.
