Migrating away from Fedora, looking for advice.

Personally, I use Debian, but it's a different approach from Fedora. My suggestion for you is to try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It's a rolling release, which means bleeding edge software as Fedora, it's RPM based and it's easy to rollback in case of an update breaks something. As I said, not my type of distro (I want 0 breaks), but I used OpenSUSE once while distro hopping and it's a good distro.

If you're going for a similar Fedora-like experience, with it being a rolling release that is still stable, then OpenSuse Tumbleweed is definitely you're best bet.

Now, if the rolling release nature is something you're less attached to, then some good options would be Pop!_OS (especially if you have an Nvidia card), another Ubuntu-spin like Kubuntu perhaps or even KDE Neon, and maybe Debian 12. Though for the last one, although it's a fantastic distro, it looks nice, new, and shiny now, but in 6-12 months when you're not even half way through the Debian upgrade cycle and still on old software, will that bother you? If the answer is yes, then look elsewhere. Otherwise, Debian 12 may be a good choice for you as well.

I'm going to throw my hat in the ring for Pop_OS. The company that maintains it is focused almost exclusively on desktop use so it excels at this better than many other distros that have kind of a split focus on all the things. Their power manager is the best in terms of laptop battery management if you're using a laptop. The distro is also flatpak focused. There's even a utility in startup apps by default called "Flatpak Transition" which checks for deprecated deb packages and lets you know if there's a Flatpak that satisfies it.

Updates seem to come fast but not as fast as a full rolling release. No major changes lately because, as others note, they're working on a HUGE change to the distro to make their own DE. Rumors are circling this might come with a re-base of the distro off Ubuntu. Unfounded as far as I know but it would make a lot of sense.

I've been running Pop on my desktop and laptop exclusively for going on a couple years now. Rock solid.

Suck it up and learn Debian and why .deb > .rpm.

Any specific reason why you’d like to move away from Fedora? It’s an amazing distro, all things considered.

Arch BTW.

I recently moved from Linux mint to opensuse tumbleweed and I've been VERY happy. Super stable. Even through multiple dist-upgrades.

I would recommend the following in descending order:

1. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
2. Linux Mint
3. Debian Testing
4. Debian Stable

I think you'll be right at home on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

I think if you want meaningful recommendations, you have to say:

• why you want to get away from Fedora
• what you liked about Fedora that kept you there until now
• what you hope you'd get from a new distro
• any nonstarters that would keep you away from a distro

Without knowing those things, it's just going to be people proselytizing their favorite distros rather than suggesting one that will fit what you're looking for.

That's your chance to turn away from rpm/RHEL distros and run without looking back. As last 20 years history shows, that branch of linux OS is either dying off on hands, leaving you without suport, either makes migration path complicated by a need to change distro. Like it was with centos +5..10 years, oh no ... -> maybe fedora -> oh no ... -> whatever whocares rpm pop/rocky/alma name it ... Thats it, beat it, no more this shit.

deb or any other kind linux is a way to go.

Literally any Debian distribution with the exact same window manager service you were using in Fedora would be essentially as if you never switched away at all.

Can also vouch for Pop_OS .Can't tell how much having recovery partition added saved me from reinstalling os again :)

Since I can’t edit my post (not sure why, just can’t) this parent post should help people.

My leaving Fedora and by extension RH, mostly is about not supporting in any meaningful capacity any associated with RH. My hope is to find something similar to Fedora, I’m getting a lot of recommendations about OpenSUSE tumbleweed and endeavorOS. Since my setup is AMD CPU/GPU it seems while not the perfect choice POP!_OS isn’t for me. I think as long as the distro supports vanilla Gnome or as close as possible would be great.

I plan to move to EndeavourOS, because I cannot be bothered to install Arch and wanted something (b)leading edge, but community based. Already installed on my laptop, looking good so far.

Kind of unfortunate that there are no true community driven rpm distros :(

In a similar situation. I've been looking at open suse tumble weed and endeavourOS.

Installed pop on my wife's computer last week and I'm pretty impressed, I'm not the biggest gnome fan though so I don't think it would be for me.

I've been using Pop! for years, having been a user of Debian, Ubuntu, and Mint previously. It pretty much just works as far as I can tell. Are there specific things you're looking for?

Nobara?

I'm wondering if Universal Blue will be impacted if Redhat pulls a CoreOS move on Fedora. If not, that'd be quite a seamless switch.

Pop OS is not a bad choice. Only thing about it is the version of Gnome it has is a little old and it will stay that way until they come out with their own Rust-based DE.

I just installed Endeavour, and so far I like it because I didn't need to do anything tedious to get my wifi card.working

Seems like we're looking for the same thing, it's a a shame.

I used Debian before, and I'm likely going back. Since Debian 12 uses the 6.1 Kernel, it's new enough for me.

Without saying why you are leaving Fedora, it's not really possible to advise you... whatever we recommend may have the same mystery issue you are trying to escape.

You should start with :

• which DE you use ?
• what release model you want ?
• immutable or not ?

I settled on PopOS, easy to use, just working OS

I like Manjaro Gnome. I changed the maui shell for the gnome shell and everything is looking great, and as close to vanilla gnome as possible (which is what I liked from Fedora :P) is not the same package system, but is very neat ;)

I'm on Debian at the moment.

Which DE do you use? Sadly, on KDE Debian is quite bloated but there's a trick, I deselected KDE when installing Debian.

Naturally, I booted into a blackscreen but after entering my credentials I ran the following command: sudo apt install kde-plasma-desktop

I rebooted into a beautiful and minimal Plasma desktop, it doesn't even have a calculator but it still comes with a few questionable applications installed. From there I just set up flathub and I'm all flatpak.

I used this page, check the page for your favorite DE/WM: https://wiki.debian.org/KDE

Consider PCLinuxOS. 'PLOS' has the same look and feel of the ent Linuxes, but

• as a child of mageia/mandriva from mandrake and conectiva, it's derivation from RH is super long ago so it's closer to rhel5 for well-built well-tested tools.

• it has maaaaassive lib/app support range, like Axel Rose's vocal range compared to EL's Bruce Springsteen. No stream or other crap shenanigans aside from etc/alternatives.

• No systemd. Weird how startups are fast and reliable

It can yum cron like a badass.

Caveats:

• if you liked building vagrants on mageia, you need to help them on pclos. They have no clue there, and the skillet seems to be fading fast.
• people who support sysv startup are getting more lazy and ditching it.
• people who support last week's version of anything are no more prevalent in pclos, so there's no magical fix for "10 second tom" devs here either.