Considering switching away from Fedora and to another distribution. Does anyone have any suggestions for distributions I should consider?
I wanna move to nix but my monkey brain can’t understand it. Might just take the plunge anyways
Documentation is not enough good for me to care and I hate when there are multiple ways to do things, I still did not understand how I should install programs on NixOS
For now, it’s Debian 12 with KDE Plasma. But I’m really interested in Immutable Systems. I like OpenSuse Kapla, but the KDE Integration is still in alpha. There are still a few shortcomings with the only flatpak approach, like the fact that the Steam Flatpak can’t provide smooth wireless controller support because of lacking permissions.
I’ve found success installing Steam and other stuff using distrobox on openSUSE Kalpa. The initial setup isn’t as easy as installing a flatpak, but after a quick distrobox-export it’s totally seamless.
Arch.
People think it’s really challenging and brittle, but everything seems to always work no matter how often I update (or don’t) and the wiki is top notch.
I actually chose arch initially because when you go to forums to troubleshoot problems there is always an ubuntu answer and an arch answer, and the arch answer is almost always shorter.
Fedora Silverblue. I want a Linux system that just works.
Still Arch on main desktop, but slowly moving towards NixOS everywhere.
I only use Arch, it’s really stable and easy to fix if something goes wrong thanks to the excellent arch wiki.
But I recommend PopOS for anyone who just wants something good looking and stable and who doesn’t need the latest packages all the time.
Guix. I like Nix and Scheme so it just makes sense.
I wanted to like Guix very much, but eventually found it extremely inflexible. You will miss a lot of packages that are not trivial to create in Scheme yourself. Also a lot of packages have issues that no one wants to fix, or it takes half a year (e.g. being able to use NetworkManager for an eduroam/university wifi connection).
It’s also not possible to just compile a package yourself because the directory structure is totally different.
I don’t think Guix will ever become more flexible, I’ve given up on it
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