I’m moving away from Windows and I’m looking for distro for coding and occasional gaming. If more context is needed please let me know.

    • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      As long as it’s tumbleweed.

      Non rolling release distros are completely inappropriate for desktop use

      • qaz@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Non rolling release distros are completely inappropriate for desktop use

        Why exactly? Because you need to manually upgrade to newer versions?

        • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Yes. It makes sense on production servers because you have staging envs to test upgrades. All it does on a desktop is make you use old versions of tools until one day you have a massive update to new old versions of tools, which is way more likely to break shit than doing small, consistent upgrades

          • qaz@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            I completely agree, it seems ridiculous to have to reinstall, manually edit sources or have a large number of programs break on you to stay up to date. It’s one of the things Windows does better. I’m personally considering switching to OpenSUSE Slowroll when it leaves beta testing.

            • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Fwiw arch is great. As long as you regularly update, it’s never an issue.

              And they now have an archinstall script on the live image. It’s not a GUI, but it’s a very simple cli app to set up your complete install.

                • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  Well for one, fedora comes with gnome. So that’s already a reason not to. Also afaik fedora isn’t actually a true rolling release.

                  Also pacman is the best and the arch repos are amazing, augmented with the AUR

                  • qaz@lemmy.world
                    1·
                    1 year ago

                    Well for one, fedora comes with gnome.

                    There are spins with various DE’s: KDE, Xfce, Cinnamon, MATE+Compiz, i3, LXQt, LXDE, SOAS, Phosh (Phone Shell), Sway, Budgie. You aren’t supposed to able to change or install multiple DE’s though as far as I know, but that isn’t a problem for me because I always use KDE.

                    Also afaik fedora isn’t actually a true rolling release.

                    That’s true, the updates are a bit slower. But I actually prefer that, that’s why I’m interested in slowroll.

                    Also pacman is the best and the arch repos are amazing, augmented with the AUR

                    I have heard a lot of good things about the AUR. I’m currently using a combination of zypper packages, nix packages, Flatpak apps and opi and using a single method would be preferable (system packages and flatpak would be fine too).