I’m in the market to find a new distro that is similar enough to Fedora that switching won’t be as laborious as I’ve had it before. I keep hearing POP!_os is a good choice but I’m going to as the community what they think is good.
I’m going to throw my hat in the ring for Pop_OS. The company that maintains it is focused almost exclusively on desktop use so it excels at this better than many other distros that have kind of a split focus on all the things. Their power manager is the best in terms of laptop battery management if you’re using a laptop. The distro is also flatpak focused. There’s even a utility in startup apps by default called “Flatpak Transition” which checks for deprecated deb packages and lets you know if there’s a Flatpak that satisfies it.
Updates seem to come fast but not as fast as a full rolling release. No major changes lately because, as others note, they’re working on a HUGE change to the distro to make their own DE. Rumors are circling this might come with a re-base of the distro off Ubuntu. Unfounded as far as I know but it would make a lot of sense.
I’ve been running Pop on my desktop and laptop exclusively for going on a couple years now. Rock solid.
I recently moved from Linux mint to opensuse tumbleweed and I’ve been VERY happy. Super stable. Even through multiple dist-upgrades.
Any specific reason why you’d like to move away from Fedora? It’s an amazing distro, all things considered.
Don’t get me wrong. I love Fedora, but with the things they’ve done recently, I really don’t think what I want from an OS and RH wants are the same anymore. I’d prefer to separate from them while I have the opportunity before I’m invested to the point of staying because it’s too hard to migrate.
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I am a regarded linux user but my understanding is that they cutting ability of the community to package certain sections from RHEL
When someone tells you Fedora is
completely independent from redhat.
You ignore them.
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There is context, you just need to step outside of your rock and see the rest of the posts at /c/linux
There are MULTIPLE threads touching the subject, in the front page. Stop being so lazy.
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HHAHAHAHHAHA
Do you live under a rock?
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All the red hat turmoil, there are plenty of posts here on lemmy
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Arch BTW.
Since I can’t edit my post (not sure why, just can’t) this parent post should help people.
My leaving Fedora and by extension RH, mostly is about not supporting in any meaningful capacity any associated with RH. My hope is to find something similar to Fedora, I’m getting a lot of recommendations about OpenSUSE tumbleweed and endeavorOS. Since my setup is AMD CPU/GPU it seems while not the perfect choice POP!_OS isn’t for me. I think as long as the distro supports vanilla Gnome or as close as possible would be great.
I may be misreading this, but POP!_OS will work more than fine on an AMD CPU/GPU, as will any modern Linux distro. However, for people that Nvidia’s proprietary drivers, POP!_OS also has pretty good integration out of the box that sets them apart from other distros (likely because the developer, System76, also makes laptops with Nvidia GPUs).
That being said, I’ve been on EndeavourOS for the past year and a half and I really like it so far. It’s basically just arch but with a GUI installer and some extra theming/add-ons, which personally has worked great for me.
Nobara?
Still fedora based
Still fedora based
Hence the question mark. OP gave no reasons as to why not Fedora.
You should start with :
- which DE you use ?
- what release model you want ?
- immutable or not ?
I plan to move to EndeavourOS, because I cannot be bothered to install Arch and wanted something (b)leading edge, but community based. Already installed on my laptop, looking good so far.
Kind of unfortunate that there are no true community driven rpm distros :(
I just installed Endeavour, and so far I like it because I didn’t need to do anything tedious to get my wifi card.working
Without saying why you are leaving Fedora, it’s not really possible to advise you… whatever we recommend may have the same mystery issue you are trying to escape.
Im guessing its related to recent Red Hat antics.
I’m wondering if Universal Blue will be impacted if Redhat pulls a CoreOS move on Fedora. If not, that’d be quite a seamless switch.
Pop OS is not a bad choice. Only thing about it is the version of Gnome it has is a little old and it will stay that way until they come out with their own Rust-based DE.
Yeah, the current gnome outclass PopOs since they are working on Cosmic, the rust DE.
Their blog talk about cosmic a lot. Imho, it will be released the next month as beta public. Then they will release it next year.
https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-de-tiling-redesign-and-libcosmic-rebasing
What’s the time line on that?
Iirc they said around the time of the next LTS release. So 24.04.
That’s your chance to turn away from rpm/RHEL distros and run without looking back. As last 20 years history shows, that branch of linux OS is either dying off on hands, leaving you without suport, either makes migration path complicated by a need to change distro. Like it was with centos +5…10 years, oh no … -> maybe fedora -> oh no … -> whatever whocares rpm pop/rocky/alma name it … Thats it, beat it, no more this shit.
deb or any other kind linux is a way to go.
Literally any Debian distribution with the exact same window manager service you were using in Fedora would be essentially as if you never switched away at all.
If you never touch the command line yeah, but how many of us Fedora users don’t do that?
In a similar situation. I’ve been looking at open suse tumble weed and endeavourOS.
Installed pop on my wife’s computer last week and I’m pretty impressed, I’m not the biggest gnome fan though so I don’t think it would be for me.
