I’m a software developer with plenty of linux experience but I just want a distro that just works without me having to troubleshoot everything all the time. I am lazy and I just want something easy and reliable. I don’t want an update to break it. But I want the ability to customise it if I want to and the ability to install pretty much everything available easily.

Basically I want MacOS, but as Linux. I’m very hopeful that there’s something I have overlooked!

  • EccTM@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    24 days ago

    Maybe check out uBlue Bluefin. It’s based on Fedora Silverblue (so it’s GNOME), but with a lot of the extra non-free stuff that Fedora can’t include by default pre-configured. There’s also Aurora if you’d rather a KDE based version.

    They both update automatically via atomic image, so if anything goes wrong you can just roll back. It mainly uses flatpak for GUI packages and brew for CLI stuff, but they have included distrobox too if you wanted to install things from anywhere else.

    Everything they do (including defaulting to a “Grand Touring Series” GTS tag instead of an also available Latest tag) is with a mindset of sticking to stable packages and adopting things once the kinks have already been worked out, but not sacrificing features.

    • kjetil@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      I was about to say Bazzite. But Aurora seems to do the same thing? Fedora UniversalBlue based atomic image, with KDE and a sprinkling of of handy out-of-the-box stuff like proprietary codecs, Nvidia drivers etc

      • EccTM@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        24 days ago

        Bazzite is the gaming spin, and basically the starting point for people that want a couch console / HTPC / stationary Steam Deck imo.

        Bluefin and Aurora are put together with general computer use in mind, and then both of them can be swapped to a developer-focused “-dx” image with a single command, that adds VS Code and a bunch of development tools.

        It just changes the starting point based on if your PC is mainly for work, or mainly for play. All three are just as capable to be set up for whatever.

        • kjetil@lemmy.world
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          23 days ago

          Thanks, I’m running Bazzite on a (gaming) laptop now, but I’ll install Aurora next time I set up a laptop

    • barsquid@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      I’ve gotten into rpm-ostree distros via Bazzite. I think they are great. I like it so much I am moving homelab stuff to Fedora IoT.