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Distro recommendation for ease of use and up to date software (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by tester1121 to c/[email protected]

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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.

Edit 2: I have decided on using Endeavour, mostly because I'm used to Arch, dnf is so much slower on my network than pacman or yay, and it seems that Endeavour has more packages available without any additional configuration in the package manager settings. The only major difference that I felt was that Fedora didn't have "optional" packages.

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[–] aspitzer 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ubuntu is a good starter distro. It is up to date and has the most documentation/examples on the web. It is the most likely to "just work". Install it and test it out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

100% Ubuntu. They have great hardware support and spend a lot of time making sure the user's experience is smooth. The snap package thing is annoying but can be worked around.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'm a fan and user of Ubuntu, but I would never recommend it to someone coming from Arch and looking for bleeding edge updates. This user isn't that green. Ubuntu repos absolutely lag in up to date versions of things, which isn't usually a problem, can usually be fixed by adding the app developers up to date repo, and is still more up to date by default than other Debian stable type releases. But bleeding edge out of the box, it absolutely is not. But, in my experience also, it does just work. And the documentation is pretty straightforward and easy to digest. Also, as package managers go I prefer apt. I just wish ubuntu distro upgrades were more stable and less prone to ruining my weekend.