Playing around with a secondary Distro: Fedora or Pop?

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Basically, as you might have noticed, I have been running Pop on bare metal since tuesday morning. It is gorgeous, the amount of polish is amazing… but it is sluggish as heck.
It really really shouldn’t be, I don’t know what’s going on.

Anyway, basically I had narrowed it down to either Pop or Fedora workstation and am about to wipe Pop early because of this. Anyone having any experiences with Fedora they want to share?

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Fedora is my backup distro in case something ever goes completely sideways and I can’t run an Arch-based distro.

I tried running it for a month as my primary OS and because I was lazy, ended up running it for several months. Honestly, I had no major issues and if I had to use it permanently it wouldn’t be the end of the world.

Pros:

  • Easy to swap out DEs
  • Since it is static it was nice to be able to install software without worrying about updating first
  • Conversely, it was fairly up-to-date because it they cut a new version every 6 months with very recent software
  • It has support for selinux which I hadn’t played with in a while
  • It supports automatic, unattended updates if you are into that kind of thing

Cons:

  • Like most distros that aren’t Arch-based, be prepared to spend time adding a bunch of different repos to get all your software from or use flatpaks
  • dnf/rpm are really nice but complicated operations will have a learning curve
  • The are many more knowledgeable people accessible in the broader Arch community. Getting support for complicated issues on Fedora isn’t always easy.
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I used it a week or so ago (Fedora that is) … thought it was pretty slick … would have stuck around as it seems a good mix of up-to-date and stable …

Only switched back to arch based (right here) as I couldn’t be bothered learning to make .rpm packges for a few things I was after (custom wine build and something else) . If you stick to flatpacks rather than digging up repos then it would be an easy life … once the patches are merged into wine then I would have no issue hanging there … I also have no problem with stock GNOME

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Aloha Bearded friend,
my backup distro for EOS is another EOS. :slight_smile:

No, shit, as an honest ersatz for my EOS I aways keep a USB stick with (Debian) Sparky semi-rolling at hand. Also astonishingly well and spunky on my test machine did the SuSE derivative Gecko. And, always clever, always working, all-in-one Mint.

None of the other 3 million available distros will do.

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I am like @dalto. Fedora is my go to back up OS. Of course, I am a little biased. Fedora was the Distro I went to when Mandriva imploded. I can’t add anything to what was stated in their post. They covered everything quite well.

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If I bought a 5950X I’d try Gentoo :wink:

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Running MX on my desktop that is hardly used, only for music and printing.
Very stable and therefore no fun. :joy:

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Picked Fedora; Pop looks amazing but suffered from horrible sluggishnesh. And I don’t know why. When asking on their forum I did get a few replies from others that had to install third party kernels to solve the issue.

So, fedora it is. The only thing I am missing from it right now is MPV, and I know why; wayland and the dispute with the MPV maintainer.

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I just run triple boot EOS on rEFInd. Works for me.

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Fedora is fine if you just want a workstation and run with it. But…it’s no fun like Eos! :rocketa_purple: :enos_flag: :enos:

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