I can say now and I have been running Fedora a few months now. I just went thru the update to F37.
Almost Arch like documentation. Intel was very easy, everything worked out of the box. Setup literally took minutes.
I have both Arch and Fedora computers and both are excellent. It’s really impressive other than updating between versions how little is needed other other than just clicking update on the software center.
the time to reach the login screen from boot is long compared to EndeavourOS.
updates work more like in MS Windows.
I couldn’t figure out how to get AUR to work in an Arch distrobox. There’s an issue with locale and so yay fails to install anything.
flatpak version of java minecraft has no sound. To compensate, download and run the .tar from the minecraft website. But, I don’t know how to configure this for GNOME to regard it as an installed program.
I like EndeavourOS, except Fedora 37 has perfect tablet mode features out of the box. I am struggling with these on GNOME 43.1 in EndeavourOS in tablet mode:
on-screen keyboard pops up upon tapping text entry field in Fedora 37.
touchscreen scrolling and pinch-to-zoom are enabled in Firefox by default in Fedora 37.
screen rotation with accelerometer enabled in tablet mode by default in Fedora 37.
They always say Fedora uses vanilla GNOME, but the default configuration is improved in Fedora vs EndeavourOS or a fresh installation of GNOME from command line.
Hello, I was with EOS from the beginning and have now switched some time ago from EOS to MX Linux, because the many updates was just too much work for me and I thought that it works with less.
I’m not sure yet if this was the right step, because KDE Plasma ran much better in EOS than in MX Linux, and it seems to me that MX Linux is quite overloaded.
Don’t unterstand me wrong, MX Linux is a great distro!
What do you think about it? Share your thoughts with me. I am grateful for positive and negative.
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I ran MXLinux for awhile in different desktop environments and always found it to be resource hungry when compared to EndeavourOS. It is a decent distro but I find I prefer EndeavourOS to it.
Mx-Linux is a major source of confusion to me. I originally tried it for a couple of reasons - some people I knew used it happily, it had a good ‘presence’ on distrowatch, and being based on Debian I figured what I knew of apt etc should make me comfortable. I configured it quite easily (including compiz!), checked out the ‘helpers’, got conky going easily, and found its performance adequate. For some reason I have never understood, I never got ‘in sync’ with it though! I had languished away on another system since… and I went to Arch/EnOS and have stuck thoroughly
It SHOULD be a good place to be, though I was completely at a loss to explain the moribund forums given the apparent popularity…
I’ve installed Arch EOS and Garuda. Currently on Garuda, cause I havnent managed to break it yet and it has some nice tools. I installed EOS on my work computer, which has been running nicely. I did break it already, when I forgot to configure a kernel module hook and updated the system, but it was easily fixed.
Fedora (any spin)/CentOS/Red Hat - because of Red Hat, the codec issue (I do have an AMD GPU on my laptop and Fedora never worked properly on it even before that) & the inability to easily install Nvidia without issues (same as with AMD GPUs but worse).
openSUSE Leap/Tumbleweed/GeckoLinux - Same as Fedora but also I’ve never really used openSUSE.
Ubuntu (any flavor) - No because Snaps and other issues like extremely short support for non-LTS releases.
Debian - No because extremely out of date packages.
elementaryOS - No because of many reasons and (since I’m a KDE user)
Arch - Maybe, but it’s very difficult to set up (which is why I went with EndeavourOS!)
Arch-based (i.e. ArcoLinux, Manjaro, Garuda, etc.) - Garuda is the closest, but too much theming and I will never support Manjaro. I don’t know the others.
Linux Mint - No because no KDE edition anymore.
MX Linux - Maybe, but packages aren’t really up to date.
Gentoo - No because it’s too annoying to set up for a primary OS.
Slackware - No because like Gentoo, it’s too annoying to set up for a primary OS.
Solus - No because I don’t know too much about it.
BSD - No because no KDE (outside of FreeBSD)
Any other Ubuntu derivative (I.e. Pop!_OS, Zorin, KDE Neon, etc.) No because KDE Neon has snaps and extremely delayed Ubuntu versions, so it often doesn’t work on my newer hardware. And the rest because no KDE.
Unfortunately, I cannot find a relatively up to date proper Linux Mint KDE successor without Snaps no matter how hard I try. That is why I’m on EndeavourOS. And unless something like that pops up, I don’t think I’m going anywhere. I use KDE Plasma primarily, I don’t like Snaps at all, and I want something stable and smooth. And I can’t find anything else even close, so if I wanted something not rolling release with KDE Plasma and no Snaps, as of this post, I’d be out of luck. So rolling release it is unless I start my own distro.
Zorin OS… because it’s actually what I’m using right now.
The reason why though is because a (somewhat tech-illiterate) relative of mine has switched to Linux, and chose Zorin after I had her go through Distrochooser and showcased a few of the results. Since I’ll probably be tech support for this individual more so than usual for the next few months… I decided to go ahead and distrohop over to Zorin myself so I could better provide help.
So far I’m enjoying the simplicity and stability offered, although managing flatpaks and dealing with how old and crusty the packages in the repos can be has been a pain in the neck.
Fedora, used it briefly and really enjoyed it except for one problem: it had a habit of randomly shutting my laptop down while gaming. Only OS that ever did that to my current laptop…
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Only OS that ever did that to my current laptop…