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Thinking about making the big switch – recommend me a distro! (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Hey all, I've been thinking about making the jump from Windows to Linux as my daily-driver and I've been struggling on what distro to use.

On my laptop I've been using Fedora's KDE Spin for a bit but I can't say I really like KDE all that much. I took that Distrochooser test and 9/10 of the suggestions were all Ubuntu-based or Arch-based for some reason lol.

I would prefer a distro that "just works" but I'm not scared of having to troubleshoot or fix things. I guess I'm just looking to see what everyone else uses and what you all recommend. Thanks!

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[–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I had to bail from Fedora when they pulled the video codecs from RPM. It may be fixed, but the threat of pulling a tool from the repository still lingers in my mind.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    The video codecs are in rpmfusion, which is available as a checkbox called “Third Party Repositories” in the setup wizard.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    There was an issue in the past where the regular mesa-* packages and the mesa-*-freeworld were out of sync which resulted in no longer working DEs for many people if they updated at the wrong time.

    Is this still an issue?

    (I went back to the regular drivers since I mostly use VP8/9 anyway)

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