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Fedora is a GNU/Linux systemd distribution that's designed to innovate constantly and change. They are at the forefront of the linux software stack. I'd call it the "year of the linux desktop" distro because they are at the head of so many things. They were the first to adopt wayland, pipewire, systemd and drop X11 session logins just to give you an idea.
Fedora offers two main variants. That being their workstation edition and spins (GNOME + alternative DEs) and their Atomic Desktop which is an operating system based on OCI image containers rather than mutable packages.
I'd recommend going the Atomic Desktop route first since the atomic model basically makes the system virtually unbreakable while also letting you customize it as much as you want. There are projects like Universal Blue that allow users to create their own images (akin to creating your own distro) and has what I argue the best batteries-included gaming distro in the form of Bazzite. If you use your Linux rig as a gaming machine then you should definitely check out Bazzite.
I also would not recommend "trying atomic desktop first". The fact is, as a newbie, you're going to run into issues and problems and need to look things up, which means running commands. And a majority of guides are either for Debian/Ubuntu or Fedora/CentOS/Red Hat, and the normal Fedora commands just don't work on Atomic Desktops. If you want to install anything other than a sandboxed GUI app, you're going to have to deal with
rpm-ostree
, which is a major hit-or-miss. Setting up Tailscale was a major chore, and I ended up having to set up a Docker (Podman) container for it.My problem with these sorts of atomic desktops is that they remove the traditional packaging solutions, which, let's be honest, is justified. But the solutions they are replaced with are either incomplete (Flatpak) or nonexistent (how do I set up system daemons? CLI apps?).
TL;DR Atomic Desktops are more " hassle" than "stable", just use Fedora Workstation.
Universal blue has images with tailscale included in their bluefin isos. Distrobox with rootful containers can install daemons. Rpm-ostree is not recommended to be used at all unless it is your last case option. Nix can be installed on atomic systems (using the determinate systems installer) as well as with home-manager support meaning that you don't even have to use flatpak at all for your apps and can use any home-manager service you want.
You can use GitHub's ghcr service to serve custom images to yourself using blue build that include all the packages you want.
Explain?
Cli apps can be installed using Nix or Distrobox (a frontend to podman/docker/lily). System daemons can be installed in user mode, through a nix derivation, or layering if you really need to.
Yes you are not going to be able to compile a program from git and install it on your system's root binaries, but that's a feature not a bug.