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Fedi, it’s your lucky day! You get to recommend me a Linux distribution to install on a partition of my new AMD Framework 13 laptop.
I’m much more comfortable with dpkg-based distributions than rpm-based ones. I have no favourite desktop window manager.
I will be using it casually, dual booting with Windows 11. Bonus points if it handles suspend well.
Maloney clause: GNU/copypasta replies will still get you blocked.
@futzle@old.mermaid.town I mean... I am typing this from fedora on my XPS 15 and I enjoy fedora. I have some frustrations with apt. Mainly how it's incapable of doing certain things like recaculating the world dependency graph (hence why apt dist-upgrade and the fact that to update to a new ubuntu release it just replaces all of the packages). DNF is amazing in my experience.
@futzle@old.mermaid.town one of the things that i always do on apt based systems is install https://github.com/ilikenwf/apt-fast for parallel downloads and dnf just comes with this out of the box (you can configure it). I don't think rpm is that much different
@puppygirlhornypost2 Like I said, it’s a comfort thing. Fortunately I’m at the arse end of the Internet here and the bottleneck of my ISP would always make parallel downloads completely moot.
@futzle@old.mermaid.town I'm just failing to come up with a decent apt+dpkg distro that isn't ubuntu. to be honest the reason I picked fedora in the first place was because coprs are the equivalent of ubuntu's ppas. I'd advise looking at mint and pop!_os although I've never used them so I cannot attest to their stability or make any guarantees.
@puppygirlhornypost2 Thanks, Ubuntu and Mint are two frontrunners, I think, and both are reputed to run well on the hardware. pop!_os is new to me, but I already hate typing it on a phone keyboard.
Admittedly they're not running particularly new hardware (mostly Haswell era) but as long as your machine is older than the newest Ubuntu LTS it should be just fine
@izzy Thanks, Mint is attractive because I just want a system I can use and I’m not really in the mood to tinker; I have other machines for that.