Arch btw, beside the meme it really covers everything I want for my daily driver to do, and I love having all the latest software instead of waiting until it gets added to the official repositories or adding them manually.
If I were to use Linux for professional working though, I would explore Fedora just to have a system that is more stable and can't cause weird technical issues taking up time from my work.
For servers Debian without even thinking about it
looks up debian what is this Dreamcast ass logo.
I love it
I like that debian just works, its a pretty darn good choice for people who dont want to deal with setting up their computer and just want to use it
I'm discovering new memes I had no idea existed. I'm scared.
If you pick arch (or something based on arch like EndeavourOS) you get to be part of the exclusive club of people who bring up that they use arch (BTW) constantly.
I use arch btw
I've been on Kubuntu for a few years. I'm considering moving to something non-Ubuntu, but I'm really happy with KDE Plasma.
KDE fucking rules. I don't care how resource intensive it is, it looks fuckin steller and is infinitely customizable.
It's basically no more resource intensive than GNOME or Xfce. It's very efficient and has been at least since Plasma 5.
I have really convenient shortcuts to move a window to full, half, or quarter screen, and to switch between 4 virtual desktops, which makes using my laptop very comfortable. I tested i3 for a bit but I found I don't like auto-tiling, I want to control where everything goes and hide stuff I'm not using.
https://www.linuxatemyram.com/
It's hard to tell from first glance how resource intensive a program is. Any free RAM is wasted RAM so if someone pulls up an htop and judges based on that you shouldn't listen to them at all.
I've been really happy with Fedora KDE. To me, the desktop environment determines the experience more than the distro these days, so you probably wouldn't notice much difference in switching, so maybe not worth it.
I just like Fedora better for installing on a new system, since new hardware tends to be supported faster.
How is the initial setup? I remember there being codec drama which put me off trying it.
I did add the rpmfusion repo on the last install, but I think that was more out of habit than an actual need. I usually use VLC for media files. I installed it direct from Fedora's own official repo. I haven't had any issues playing media with it out-of-the-box, no codec fiddling required. I'm not sure about other media players though.
Technically Fedora is doing the right thing by not distributing patented codecs with the operating system. Ubuntu does the same thing but they put a little check box on the installer to ask you to download the codecs as part of the install (but legally speaking, the codecs are not part of the live image).
The bigger trip up imo is that Fedora doesn't enable flathub by default (for good reason, Flathub has an issue with distributing proprietary applications without their license/EULAs intact which is a big no-no legally).
But really all you have to do is enable Flathub which packages codecs by default.
i use arch btw. if you don't have console-phobia it's one of the easiest distros to use, easy to install new software and is not prone to breaking as much as people say (well it depends on your use case mine's been pretty stable).
Been on Debian for the better part of a decade. Won’t be changing anytime soon.
Debiaaaaan. I used Arch at first but it changed too much and broke things too frequently for my liking. With Debian I don't really care about whatever I'm missing out on but it's stable as hell which means it does exactly what I expect it to do, every time.
Nobara. it's fedora based but has most of the stuff you need for gaming in by default
It's also put together by the person that does glorious egroll proton patch
Mint out of simplicity and ease of use because I've still got my training wheels on.
Will use Bazzite soon as I've just recently got myself a handheld but I haven't had the energy to tinker around on it just yet.
