Considering switching away from Fedora and to another distribution. Does anyone have any suggestions for distributions I should consider?

  • MJBrune@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    One thing that drives me away from Endeavour is that it bills itself as terminal centric and I am trying to go away from terminal hell that most Linux installs get to. Just in OpenSuse, I was having to dive in and debug xone when I just wanted to start playing rocket league. I used Linux as a daily driver from 2008 to 2012 and eventually bounced back to Windows due to wanting to play games. Every year I check back in with distros people recommend and I just don’t have the care to maintain a Linux install. I don’t need to maintain a Windows install, windows literally does it for me and very successfully in my experience.

    • LeFantome
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      1 year ago

      They do bill themselves as terminal centric but honestly I do not get that.

      The whole point of the distro relative to Arch is the graphical installer. It sets you up into a nicely configured desktop by default. There are graphical tools for configuring most things.

      I think the main reason they say that is that there is no graphical package manager by default. So, even to install one, you need to use the command line at least once. They pre-install yay though so yay -S pamac-gtk or yay -S octopi will solve that problem ( I do not like pamac myself though ).

      It is basically just Arch once installed though so I guess it has fewer tools built in than many distros.

      Anyway, I don’t own EndeavourOS stock. No big deal if you prefer something else.

      • MJBrune@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        No worries, thanks for your input. I’ll certainly put Endeavour on the list to check out.