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I might. I've never been happy with the 'desktop' linux distros. Not the look/feel/functionality, just install/setup issues and the distro version upgrade hassle. I use arch linux for my dev work, but it seems like a chore to use that as a day-to-day system on a laptop. Maybe I'm wrong.


Arch is a chore. It's like half Gentoo and half fascism. Badum-psh! Nah, I like Arch. It's just very opinionated. For my day-to-day development work, and the OS I use for watching cat videos and Facebook, etc, I use Linux Mint (17.3).


> and half fascism.

I don't like fascism, even half of it. So I don't like Arch, mainly because of the often times toxic community. How good pacman then may be - becomes irrelevant.


Just get an LTS. Like xubuntu or something.

It's no use comparing a rolling release to whatever OSX is.


I find Debian Stable rock solid. I spent some time setting it up once many years ago and I'm basically running the same system now (upgrades over the years have been mostly a breeze).


Fedora is my choice for desktop Linux. It works great. If GNOME isn't your thing then almost every other DE is available in RPMFusion.

Overall I find it nicer to work in Fedora than Ubuntu fwiw.


See, every time I try out fedora, i end up making my system unbootable just by installing packages.

I don't know what i'm doing wrong, hell the reason I want to go with fedora is because I work with redhat based systems at work, so it's more familiar, but it just seems so unstable.




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