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I don't mean for this to become a KDE vs GNOME post. I'm looking at switching to Fedora (because Arch is a pain), and it seems that GNOME is more supported. I use KDE on Arch. What features would I be losing if I were to switch? (ex: toolbar management, KRunner, etc.)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I just started to daily Bazzite, which is Kinoite but made for gaming. Can confirm it is so reliable it's crazy. Best fresh install experience by a mile.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Yes for sure.

  • Fedora packagers do the heavy lifting of shipping the packages
  • ostree pulls in and versions the OCI images
  • rpm-ostree layers RPMs onto the base image but on their side, so they can install exactly what they need. Its all CI/CD Github actions
  • they include all the files needed for a perfect experience
  • they have yafti and ublue-update, which fill the gaps
  • on your machine, rpm-ostree just needs to update