I’ve used Linux lite and Fedora(Gnome edition) so far, and trying to hop Distro(plus, I lost my actual boot drive. Not to worry, I know I’ve left it in my friend’s house, so the data is safe. Plus, no important data were on it in the first place).
Considering the recent incidents with the Red Hat Enterprises, I’m not sure if I should go with any of their distributions. Which would be a great OS for me, you guys think? @thelinuxEXP @linux@lemmy.ml @Linux@linuxrocks.online @linuxmagazine @linux_gaming

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Really depends on what you’re looking for. If you’re looking for simple “works out the box” distros, check out Pop_OS, Zorin OS, or other Debian based stuff. If you’re a power user, maybe Arch Linux (or arch linux based stuff like Elementary OS) could fit the bill. There’s also Nix OS.

Considering the recent incidents with the Red Hat Enterprises, I’m not sure if I should go with any of their distributions.

Using Red Hat based stuff doesn’t mean you’re supporting them though. Fedora’s still a good distro and I wouldn’t move if I’m already comfortable in it imo.

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@simple I think I’ll try a bit on the Arch side to have an idea on how the power users actually use it. Plus, yeah, I’m comfortable with Fedora, but I also want to try out some other stuff before sticking to one distro. If you check one of my previous posts, there’s some problems I had, so I couldn’t. Then the whole Red Hat issue came up and so on.

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Pop_OS is my favorite windows replacement

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Well, what do you want? You don’t look at Linux and go “out of all these 1000s of options what’s a good one?” Instead, you should say, “I want my computer to work XYZ way,” and that will decide the distro for you.

Do you want a start menu and a bar? Probably want Xfce or KDE. Do you want an app menu? Well there’s GNOME. Do you care about defaults or do you want to customize? Think about what you want from an OS and how it should work and let that guide you to your distro.

Why’d you leave Linux Lite? What made you decide on Fedora? You could always go back to Linux Lite.

There’s nothing gonna happen to Fedora because of RHEL locking down, and there’s no reason for Fedora to be leave, so staying there is a valid option.

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My question is, what does your DE have to do with your distro? Pick a distro that works on any DE

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Linux Mint is pretty much my silver bullet for anyone asking for a distro with decent desktop experience.

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Okay, to add some perception to it, I want to use some new OS which is a bit different from the above two distros. That includes some Arch based and OpenSuse, but I would like to try other stuff as well. Ubuntu is something that I would avoid for the time being, but yeah, that’s my situation right now on deciding a new distro.

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I recently switched to Endeavour OS, it’s pretty easy to install as an Arch based distro. Honestly you could probably just install regular Arch too since the archinstall feature makes it pretty easy to set up in the command line

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NixOS is very different, it will make you stop wanting to hop

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@iopq I’ll give it a shot. Thanks for the info😊

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