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Hello all, I've been distro hopping a lot lately and have a long term goal of settling on one distro for the family laptops.

Currently it's a smattering of linux distro's and some M$ across all the systems in the house.

In short the fam has had a pretty negative reaction to Gnome for all the usual reasons, so there is a kubuntu instance, Nobara, but the KDE version, Manjaro etc... I kind of want to give Fedora a stint on my laptop and noticed the Fedora spins project and was wondering if anyone has played around with it at all?

I spun up the KDE version in a VM alongside the default Fedora and noticed it's running a newer kernel than the default, which is interesting...

Is it an equal partner in update cycles?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'd recommend Mint or Manjaro for family computers.

Probably Mint, just because Pamac still has issues.

Fedora is a bad choice because you're stuck in the dnf ecosystem with no real benefit.

I'm a firm believer that the only value in Fedora is for Red Hat. Their shills are the ones who promote it over more practical options.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

In case you really want/need some more modern drivers/software,... Nobara is also recommendable stable.