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Pop_OS!
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What you hatin on fedora for :(
Gotta ask, since it's my distro of choice... what's wrong with Fedora?
Something something Red Hat
Red Had is downstream from Fedora and a monetary supporter of the Fedora Project. They don't control Fedora.
But I can see your point.
Ah, yes, I know. I was actually trying to defend Fedora and do a small dig on people who complain about Red Hat running their business. It didn’t come across that way, clearly.
I mean there are plenty of Red Hat employees working for Fedora and in Fedora board... They also own Fedora trademark.
Pop I actually daily drive on my laptop since it works really well, especially with trackpad gestures and stuff. I like the look and feel of cosmic so I keep it.
The others definitely agree, although I do find Mint to be a great point of entry for people coming from Windows.
I've been daily driving pop for about 3 years now on my desktop built with components from almost 6 years ago. Much smoother of an experience than Ubuntu (yes pop is derived from Ubuntu) and tiers above the rest.
Agreed. I love Pop
Pop_OS - Fragile Beginner Distro, this is fine to use so long as you’re not a power user, but you’re using Linux so…
Manjaro - Maintain your damn repos, why is it whenever discord updates, the repo is so far out of date I literally have to circumvent it and install it through some hacky bullshit?
Ubuntu - Snap? More like Thanos Snapd off my damn drive thank you very much.
Fedora - just overrated, nothing terribly against it, just don’t think it’s all it’s cracked up to be. It’s just a RHEL adjacent Distro.
Linux Mint - aside from Debian edition, its pretty overrated. It’s easy compatible Ubuntu. It’s not super Ubuntu or anything.