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Ever since Ubuntu went all NIH with Mir and Unity, I looked for other desktops to recommend to people who want something that "just works". The wishlist include
by xorcist 9y ago
Ever since Ubuntu went all NIH with Mir and Unity, I looked for other desktops to recommend to people who want something that "just works". The wishlist includes non-breaking upgrades and not changing interface unnecessarily.
There are a few modern distributions like Mint and Elementary, but none pay much attention to upgrades. Fedora Workstation it is. The tools have matured a bit since esr's wife famously wanted to use her printer with it.
The past four or five years with it have been pretty uneventful, just as was hoped.
- sjellis 9y agoSolus is very, very good. The default version uses their own desktop, but they also offer a solid GNOME edition and are preparing a KDE edition as well. I am a long-time Fedora user, and very fussy about Linux desktops, but would now recommend Solus over Fedora for most people: it is almost as polished, more simple to manage, faster on modern hardware, and has newer software packages whilst staying away from the bleeding edge technologies that Fedora promotes. For example, the move to Wayland is great, but if you just want a system that works, you don't want a distribution that enables it by default just yet.