Hello fellow linuxers

I am kinda confused as to why certain Linux distros are mentioned in in every others post while others seems to get litten attention or are being bashed at worst. People advertise for Mint because it’s so easy to use, while I personally miss it’s benefits over Ubuntu.

Personally I used KDE Neo for some time and switched to Fedora 42 a few weeks ago. It has all the same tools as basically every other distros. What is missed is not necessary or available. I can also seamlessly manage my proxmox server through ssh and fish and take up minor programming tasks on python or arduino.

Am I missing something important, or just seeing a loud minority with very specific requir?

  • Foofighter@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
    31·
    3 days ago

    But that’s kind of my point. I don’t understand/know where the simplicity comes in. My experience from Fedora and Ubuntu is: Install is straightforward and almost identical between both distros Login Done

    To me, mint is a bloated Ubuntu (no offense for those who appreciate it)

    • imecth@fedia.io
      7·
      3 days ago

      Fedora doesn’t enable non free repositories by default, and that’s a big deal for new users. Telling someone they need to run commands in the terminal to get their nvidia drivers, or even get youtube working is a problem.

      • grinka@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        13 hours ago

        Fedora have “Enable 3rd party repositories” button in post-installation user setup which enables NVIDIA, Steam, Google Chrome and Flathub repositories. Then all of these can be installed from KDE Discover or GNOME Software, no need for terminal

      • Willdrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        They do for some time now, at least on both workstation and silverblue you get prompted on the first boot and a reminder after a while on gnome-software

        • imecth@fedia.io
          2·
          1 day ago

          I’ve installed fedora thrice last year, and each time, I’ve had to enable rpm fusion in the terminal and download ffmpeg to get youtube to work. This is something that can’t be fixed afaik, because it’s a copyright issue.