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I’m currently testing Fedora KDE on a VM (windows host) before eventually switching over to Linux completely.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tbh youre probably better off on something like Linux Mint or something else Debian or Ubuntu based. Fedora is a good distro but rpms are a lot less common than debs are and alien does not entirely fix that issue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While I would still recommend Ubuntu or Mint or even Debian, I have been using openSUSE for years and have never run into a case where I had to compile software.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure why you are bringing Gentoo into it here. I mean that all the software I have tried to install is either available in the repos or available as an appimage/flatpak. Were it not available in binary form I would need to compile it - and I have not run into that scenario.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'll probably end up settling on Ubuntu. Thought I'd try a couple before making a final decision.