Fedora offers a KDE version.

Mostly because Fedora is more popular. I like both.

openSUSE Tumbleweed gives you much more control of what gets installed by default (you can customize every package during the GUI installer). It has been the most stable distro ive used. It is a “rolling-release” distro, meaning that packages usually get updates quicker from upstream. If you dont like getting frequent updates it may not be for you. A key feature of openSUSE distros is the system management apl Yast, which allows you to manage a lot of stuff from a GUI.

Fedora is also quite stable. I think it’s more user-friendly in my experience. After Debian/Ubuntu based distros, Fedora is the most likely to have packages built for it by developers (I’m talking 1st-party builds, not repacks). Fedora is a semi-rolling release, meaning updates are frequent but not constant.

Fedora is currently my distro off choice, but I may soon use Tumbleweed again. I daily drove Tumbleweed for a year on both my general PC and my admin computer.

Build it yourself source-driven distros?

Bazzite is great Fedora-Atomic-based distro, especially for nvidia users. I had a friend move to Linux and that was the distro that worked. But in general, if someone is a programmer/Dev, they want to learn how to use Linux, or just install a lot of packages, I’d avoid Atomic.

Don’t get me wrong, I use Atomic. But it isn’t as straight forward as a traditional distro.

The equivalent of Bazzite but traditional Fedora is Nobara

For a distro, I recommend Fedora KDE Spin. Fedora is beginner friendly, is widely supported, frequent updates (so less outdated packages), rock solid stable, works with gaming or anything else.

People recommend Linux Mint often, but I am just not a fan of how outdated the system is and its reliance on X11 (deprecated and insecure display server). I’ve daily driven mint before for like a year and it was good but I’m not a fan of cinnamon DE.

When you mention Visual Studio, do you mean VSCode or Visual Studio. Cus VSCode is supported on Linux but Visual Studio is not. Confusing right?

It also has a Flatpak release, which I prefer for the ability to restrict permissions like internet.

Actually, in the case of a web browser, Flatpak weakens both Firefox’s and Chromium’s internal sandboxing, possibly allowing for breaking of cross-site or site-host boundaries. Firefox is even weaker then Chromium as a Flatpak because it can’t use the zypak fork server. Both are weakened, best to avoid.

For basically any other app, Flatpak can be beneficial as a sandbox.

Basically, don’t sandbox browsers because its like wearing 2 condoms. The only sandboxing tool I know that doesn’t interfere with the browser’s sandbox (and also doesnt allow for the possibility of privilege escalation, like Firejail) is Bubblejail

PS: Since you mentioned you are on Fedora, Bubblejail is offered through this COPR repo from the Secureblue team. It provides a sandbox without interfering with the browser’s sandbox. It comes with profiles for Firefox and Chromium. Only issue ive experienced is that the sandbox works, aka it means I can’t access files from my home directory unless explicitly given permission to a folder.

OP mentioned that it was the Flatpak version, which doesnt add anything to root owned parts of the filesystem.

Yes. I dont remember the word exactly but it might have the word “performance” or “hardware”

While I haven’t had to deal with much of the bad .ml users, I had a long comment thread with some conservative guy who got so mad he changed his bio to say “after the last experience, proudly homophobic”. I reported it to the admins of the instance and they didnt ban even after all that shit.

What is missing that makes it a deal breaker? It really seems odd to always see comments effectively saying “we should have stayed with X.Org”. The nice thing about Wayland is that it’s maintained, so new features are being added over time.

To add to what you said, X11 is unmaintained software.

Adamant transphobe, but in that insidious way where they justify letting people get bullied in the Discord because their “not on anyone’s side and value different opinions”. A trans person in the Discord server was targeted by another member and intentionally misgendered repeatedly. They spent multiple blogs basically saying “people are snowflakes, we dont want an echo chamber”. Like wtf. (IIRC, working off my memory since I read about it like 2 months ago)

openSUSE Tumbleweed is a great rolling-release distro. The Yast tool is a powerful GUI System Admin/Settings app. Plus the openSUSE logos are green which is a good color lol.

Fedora is promoting their KDE Spin to a full Edition, alongside Fedora Workstation (GNOME). Nothing really is changed, the KDE Spin has always been good.

Check this out: https://github.com/wayland-transpositor/wprs

It depends on the fstab mount flags, specifically nofail.

It was the KDE version.

Linux just isnt transparent about some things. Beginners most have problems when they use a GUI tool and then have to still edit a file. Like dirt example, adding a new drive using GUI disk utility and then sometime in the future disconnecting the drive and being forced into emergency mode.