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What should I expect switching to Fedora? (piefed.blahaj.zone)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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I've been using Debian-based distros most of my adult Linux life, but I read recently that KDE has a better experience on Fedora than Kubuntu, so I want to try it out.

I already know that I won't be able to use apt, but what other differences should I expect with fedora?

The do not have an LTS release? What is upgrading like? When should you upgrade if you want stability?

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[–] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

Consider a Universal Blue image instead.

Chromebook easy Fedora out of the box experience. Batteries, Bells and Whistles included.

Easy peasy rollbacks and upgrades.

No more needing to manually add RPM Fusion just to get working hardware acceleration for Media in Firefox or to install Steam. Or extra steps for Nvidia drivers.

I started on Fedora KDE 32 eventually migrated to Fedora Kinoite 38 and have been a happy Bazzite enjoyer ever since. 🎮🐧🥹

Baked in #Distrobox, #Homebrew and #Bazzar Make installing and exporting .rpm or .deb files painless. Integrated Homebrew and Flatpak installers for installing apps.

And super useful and convenient #ujust commands you won't find on Fedora.

Can even Fork/Make your own Image, or checkout some Community images.

George made a Project Bluefin LTS image. Or you can also be more bleeding edge with testing branches.

Developer Experience images are also available.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (1 child)

    I’m not quite sure what the differences between Aurora and Bazzite are, besides pre-installed Steam.

    What else is important do you think? Are there reasons beside gaming to choose Bazzite?

    As an aside, most websites for Linux distros have utterly meaningless and interchangeable descriptions on their websites: user friendly, powerful, etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago*

    There's just basically different RPM OSTree package choice's fattened into their images.

    So no worrying about packages being layered, causing slower update process/rollback/version-upgrade issues.

    And I think things like in-image lutris/steam has less performance loss/integration issues (like Steam VR usage vs flatpak).

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    💯 this.

    I've tried Fedora multiple times and to be honest I've always found it to be a pain in the ass. The out of the box experience is also severely lacking for the average user who just wants a modern operating system with all the apps and codecs pre installed and ready to go.

    These days, any laptop or desktop machine in my house gets Bluefin, while gaming/media devices get Bazzite.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    not this. you need to reboot every time to get new shit. that's antithetical to how I've used desktopS (plural, yo) since the early aughts. my shit gets suspended in the evening and woken in the morning with all apps and windows how I left them. rebooting and breaking my flow makes this thing is a non-starter.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    I mean, are you so desperate to get system updates that you can't manually restart, say, every few days? You should be rebooting every time you get a kernel update, anyway.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    who's "desperate"? I don't wanna reboot to get new package updates. that's a stupid concept that was done with in like Windows 98 days. I don't reboot my desktop or my phone for weeks, that's hella comfortable and I'm not going back from that.

    if the crowd pushing the immutable stack would lead with that, or at very least mention it, I'd keep shtum.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    All the GUI and homebrew apps can be updated in-session; it's just the system side of things that needs a reboot after updating. Like your smartphone, the underlying system doesn't need updating on a daily basis.

    I get it - your personal habits don't jive with the immutable paradigm. But for the average user, I'd say it's not a major issue.

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