FOS: Stands for "Free Operating System" as an inclusive term. Includes GNU/Linux, NonGNU/Linux, *BSD that are meant to liberate ones computing.

I'll start, I use Linux Mint on my laptop that I use for work daily. It uses the latest Xanmod linux kernel and flatpaks for apps with GNU Guix providing everything else.

  • companero [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    I distro-hopped for years until I landed on Fedora, and I haven't looked back since.

    Reasons:

    • Vanilla GNOME
    • No baked in ads or weird stuff like snap (Ubuntu)
    • Easy to install
    • Good mix of stability and up-to-date packages
    • Mainstream enough to have official RPM downloads for proprietary software

    I just wish it could include proprietary media codecs by default. I prefer pragmatism over FOSS purity tbh.

    • RussianEngineer [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      I just wish it could include proprietary media codecs by default

      you may find interest in the Nobara linux distro. its Fedora but the default install requires almost no fiddling to be usable

      • companero [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        Thanks for the recommendation. I wasn't aware of that project, and it does look promising.

    • jaemeM
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      11 months ago

      proprietary media codecs

      I recommend you watch this video, it goes over why the change was made, it was actually more about pragmatism and very less about "FOSS Purity"

      Fedora is a very nice distro, definitely one the definitive leaders in the GNU/Linux space, so many new technologies like Pipewire and Wayland are pioneered in Fedora. I wish more distros were like Fedora and less like Ubuntu.