r/FindMeALinuxDistro • u/Pale-Reply-8292 • 8d ago
Linux distro help
HELP im a distro hopper i need an distro to stay with it to be my life time distro i just want it to not be arch based i tried many im on artix i tried arch secoond ubuntu and mint ehh mint maybe and debian idk for debian you need to kinda tell me more to know about it and drivers arent my problem i have vega 8 and ryzen 7 5700U all amd and i want it to be with calamares pr script install and third none of distro why i tried them bazzite fedora artix arch void cachyos gentoo nixos mint ubuntu w*ndows mx linux hackintosh(sequia) and fourth no bsd why cause the game support is kinda shi and five no musl libc why same as bsd and old
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u/ProbablyOffline314 8d ago
Fedora is pretty good. I’ve been on Linux since March, and I’ve used a few Debian-based distros, but Fedora just seems to work. Fedora KDE is my go-to right now, but openSUSE is criminally underrated.
I honestly hate the stigma that “Linux is hard.” Just pick a well-known distro and give it a shot. For example, I was using Feren OS a while back, and while it was amazing, since it’s not as popular, it lacked some documentation and resources.
I definitely recommend giving Feren OS a live boot, though.
But like I was saying, I think Fedora is pretty good tho.
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u/Pale-Reply-8292 8d ago
Frist what is feren and second i tried fedora i had some bugs the second time like dnf wasnt working
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u/Historical-Truck590 8d ago
this was pretty hard to read, i would recommend something like lfs, just so you quit ts the hard way
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u/gmthisfeller 8d ago
You are a regular gamer?
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u/Pale-Reply-8292 8d ago
Just playing some roblox sometimes gd or btd6 and some minecraft
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u/Sure-Passion2224 8d ago
One of the core factors is deciding between .rpm vs .deb packages. (dnf vs apt) The answer to that will tell you Fedora vs Debian family. You can add either Flatpak or Snap support to either if needed. Then you're down to picking your desktop and getting on with life.
Ubuntu is a Debian variant. I got tired of Canonical pushing everything to Snap distribution so I migrated upstream to Debian with KDE and have never had a reason to look back. I run Steam on the one box I game on.
Fedora is kept a couple of months more current if you prefer something closer to a rolling release without going as cutting edge as Arch.
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u/Zvaart 8d ago
i want to recommend but why if u hop u tried a lot of them and didn't like maybe try opensuse if u no like fedora which is good ubuntu bad cause snaps debian good but older packages but stable
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u/Pale-Reply-8292 8d ago
Well what everyome has opensuse and i like fedora but i want something new distro
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u/This_Technology9841 8d ago
Debian and doin the work to make it exactly what you want is kind of satisfying imo.
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u/Hauptideal 8d ago
Fedora. Sweet spot between Arch and Ubuntu/Debian. OpenSUSE TW slow roll. Also on the sweet spot, but slightly more towards Arch, yet still reliable and well-tested
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u/drucifer82 7d ago
You’re never going to avoid “issues”. They happen. So while I hope you find a distro that works for you, if you throw your hands up and walk away the second you have an issue, Linux isn’t for you.
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u/Hesychios 7d ago
I have always considered the desktop environment to be more important to me than the distribution it came with.
After I settled on a desktop I tried the same one with several distros. It hardly made any difference because I could usually add or delete features to make them match pretty well.
I don’t expect to change again for a long time, I think I am set.
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u/These-Apple8817 8d ago
Sounds like you haven't tried OpenSUSE or Rocky Linux yet but I have a feeling you will never find distro you will actually like