I would prefer something based on Debian, like Ubuntu or PopOS, but I’m open for other suggestions as well, as I’m looking for a distro to daily-drive on my new Framework laptop.

  • Fedora is pretty cutting edge (updating package versions every 6 months), while still being rock solid. The release upgrade is also the most reliable one I’ve had to deal with - I successfully upgraded an ancient install by 10 versions once.

    • Gotcha. For those that are happy with the upgrade process and stability of what they are on though, is there anything that makes it more enticing?

      I may end up giving it a go just to round out my experience with the various flavors and get some real experience with RPM.

      • Here are my two eurocents:

        • Fedora Workstation, the main spin of Fedora which uses Gnome, is a very polished experience. I’d use it, if I were a fan of Gnome.
        • Fedora Silverblue is an “immutable desktop”, i.e. the operating system is read-only while all user applications isolated from it via flatpaks. It is supposed to make the system more secure, stable, easier to update etc. It’s a cool idea, but I haven’t tried it myself.

        Other than that? Not much. As you probably know, most distributions feel pretty much the same, Fedora included.