• ebits21@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    I wouldn’t recommend arch as a first distro imo. I don’t see what the advantage would be for a newbie.

    Personally I would recommend Fedora.

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        7 months ago

        Like Ubuntu, I like that Fedora is backed by a big company. Fedora is quite good at pushing the Linux ecosystem forward and often adopts and pushes new technology before other distros (flatpaks, Wayland, pipewire, btrfs etc.) that all Linux distros eventually benefit from.

        Ubuntu on the other hands seems to want to be the Microsoft of Linux… which is not a compliment. I’ve been put off by things like their pushing of snap packages.

        I personally like the stock gnome (on a laptop) or kde (on a desktop) desktops over the cinnamon mint desktop (but mint is closer to windows). Fedora is pretty close to stock (gnome by default).

        Fedora has great flatpak integration for installing apps (think App Store) which is my preferred way to do it. Mint has this as well.

        Fedora also has semi rolling releases and constant updates, which I prefer over Linux Mint’s 2 year release cycles (this doesn’t matter for any software you install from flatpaks).

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            7 months ago

            Red Hat burned all the bridges when they pulled the rug on CentOS. I admire and commend the open source community on Rocky but they still depend on Red Hat source code, which has been apparently harder and harder to grab.

            I’d rather move to Debian, thank you very much. Which we have and went very smoothly. Only a couple of servers left!