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I personally would recommend Fedora over all of these. Easy installer, first time setup. Lots of friendly handholding and ease of use features. Fedora Workstati

I personally would recommend Fedora over all of these. Easy installer, first time setup. Lots of friendly handholding and ease of use features. Fedora Workstation for those that are ok with an OSX style UI flow. Fedora KDE for a more Windows like UI flow.

minasmorath 3y ago
I'm an Arch fanboy, but after all these years Fedora is still what I install on machines that I need to use for real work. It's been consistently rock solid for me when it matters most.
al_borland 3y ago
I’m worried about investing in Fedora after some of the moves Red Hat has made over the past several years. Such as pulling the rug out from under CentOS, and putting their source behind a paywall (along with most of their knowledge base).
- Daegalus 3y ago
  That is a common misconception. RedHat doesn't own Fedora. It sponsors it and is a major contributor, but it can't do to it what it did to CentOS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Project
jijijijij 3y ago
I fell in love with Fedora (Gnome) hard, it's really the most polished and stable Linux experience so far and I feel stupid for being reluctant about the Redhat association. However, because of the not very friendly process to get non-free codecs and software, I think it sadly can't be considered beginner friendly. Just because of that. Everything else is literally perfect. If you are fed up with another distro and know your Linux well, try Fedora! All glory, no pain.
- Daegalus 3y ago
  I will mostly agree with you on this. It is a shame it's not easier. But few distros are much different of the big ones. Legal reasons probably. At least you get friendly popups, and clicks to download from the software center. Worst case adding rpmfusion which is fairly easy these days but agree it's extra steps.
  - jijijijij 3y ago
    Yeah, it's some strict licensing issue, I think. Adding the rpmfusion repo for non-free codecs as instructed, requires you to visit a very 90s looking website and (by default dnf config) bypassing a signature check for that locally installed rpm package, last time I checked. It's "just" one command line action, and you get it via TLS at least, but honestly it sets a bad practice precedent and beginners certainly are not aware of what they are doing. For such a basic, universally needed feature no less! In Ubuntu it's a checkmark somewhere during installation, nothing alike. As someone quite experienced with Linux, but new to dnf/rpm, I found the process off-putting, and only paranoid curiosity made me aware of the signature issue. If you configure dnf to always require signature checks, including local package installation, you need to first import the Redhat rpm keys into dnf's keyring to continue properly, I think. (Or use rpm instead... the keys are actually on the system already). Needless to say, not exactly optimal at all lol And that's really a pity, as Fedora is such a damn great out of the box experience, otherwise. (I also do like dnf as a package manager a lot.)
    - Daegalus 3y ago
      That's why I tend to use derivatives that take the clean Fedora and enable the same defaults. Bazzite/UBlue/Project Bluefin for Silverblue derivatives (it's what I use) Ultramarine Linux or Nobara for non-Immutable.

minasmorath 3y ago

I'm an Arch fanboy, but after all these years Fedora is still what I install on machines that I need to use for real work. It's been consistently rock solid for me when it matters most.

al_borland 3y ago

I’m worried about investing in Fedora after some of the moves Red Hat has made over the past several years. Such as pulling the rug out from under CentOS, and putting their source behind a paywall (along with most of their knowledge base).

Daegalus 3y ago
That is a common misconception. RedHat doesn't own Fedora. It sponsors it and is a major contributor, but it can't do to it what it did to CentOS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Project

jijijijij 3y ago

I fell in love with Fedora (Gnome) hard, it's really the most polished and stable Linux experience so far and I feel stupid for being reluctant about the Redhat association. However, because of the not very friendly process to get non-free codecs and software, I think it sadly can't be considered beginner friendly. Just because of that. Everything else is literally perfect. If you are fed up with another distro and know your Linux well, try Fedora! All glory, no pain.

Daegalus 3y ago
I will mostly agree with you on this. It is a shame it's not easier. But few distros are much different of the big ones. Legal reasons probably. At least you get friendly popups, and clicks to download from the software center. Worst case adding rpmfusion which is fairly easy these days but agree it's extra steps.
- jijijijij 3y ago
  Yeah, it's some strict licensing issue, I think. Adding the rpmfusion repo for non-free codecs as instructed, requires you to visit a very 90s looking website and (by default dnf config) bypassing a signature check for that locally installed rpm package, last time I checked. It's "just" one command line action, and you get it via TLS at least, but honestly it sets a bad practice precedent and beginners certainly are not aware of what they are doing. For such a basic, universally needed feature no less! In Ubuntu it's a checkmark somewhere during installation, nothing alike. As someone quite experienced with Linux, but new to dnf/rpm, I found the process off-putting, and only paranoid curiosity made me aware of the signature issue. If you configure dnf to always require signature checks, including local package installation, you need to first import the Redhat rpm keys into dnf's keyring to continue properly, I think. (Or use rpm instead... the keys are actually on the system already). Needless to say, not exactly optimal at all lol And that's really a pity, as Fedora is such a damn great out of the box experience, otherwise. (I also do like dnf as a package manager a lot.)
  - Daegalus 3y ago
    That's why I tend to use derivatives that take the clean Fedora and enable the same defaults. Bazzite/UBlue/Project Bluefin for Silverblue derivatives (it's what I use) Ultramarine Linux or Nobara for non-Immutable.