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Distro recommendation for ease of use and up to date software (lemmy.world)
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Note: I don't know if I'm posting this in the right community, I joined Lemmy recently.

I use KDE Neon on my desktop, and I recently decided to install Linux on my laptop. I don't want to install KDE Neon onto my laptop though, because it only has fairly up to date software through Flatpak (at least for me).

Is there a good distro with very up to date software that doesn't require me to check on it often, and that I can probably make it work within 15 days? (I have the list of apps I need.) I prefer an Arch-based distro that lets me remove a lot of distro specific customization. However, if there is some other distro "base" that has software up to date like Arch and the AUR, please also let me know.

(I tried Arch already, but it seems to be too hard for me to configure, and it has multiple weird issues for me, so I don't really want to use it.)

Edit 1: (Late edit because lemmy.world was down for the day) I am going to try out Fedora KDE, Endeavour KDE, and Manjaro KDE out. Might also check out Kinoite. Will update after I have tested each.

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[–] s20@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm going to recommend Fedora Workstation. The Gnome desktop is fantastic on a laptop with a touchpad, Fedora is very up to date without being unstable, and between Flatpak, the Fedora repos, and Copr, you're probably going to find everything you need.

[–] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The pain with Fedora is the short support cycle, so you have to reinstall/upgrade it every year.

That and dnf/yum stinks.

[–] Audacity9961@feddit.ch 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The upgrade is super seamless though. Basically bulletproof in my experience over many releases.

[–] Gecko@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yup, this. Started update via Gnome Software, walked away from my laptop to make some coffee, restarted when I came back and it was done. ^^

[–] jmf@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Gonna back this up as well, never had an issue for 5 concurrent releases

[–] tester1121@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is "upgrading" Fedora in the same sense as upgrading Ubuntu?

[–] s20@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Technically yes, but it runs more smoothly in my experience. It's moving from version 38 to 39, for instance. Because the versions come out twice a year, though, it's less of a leap.

[–] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty much yeah

[–] s20@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Nah, mate. You upgrade twice a year. But it's been a smooth experience since about 34-ish. For me, it's been similar to just running a regular update (not exactly the same, but still not much of an issue).

And DNF is fine these days. You have to slightly tweak the config to allow for more simultaneous downloads and you're good. Plus DNF5 is on the horizon. I've played with it a bit, and even at this stage it's smooth and fast, just not feature complete.