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What's your preferred DE?

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I’m currently testing Fedora KDE on a VM (windows host) before eventually switching over to Linux completely.

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xkforce@lemmy.world
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Tbh youre probably better off on something like Linux Mint or something else Debian or Ubuntu based. Fedora is a good distro but rpms are a lot less common than debs are and alien does not entirely fix that issue.

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raptir@lemdro.id
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While I would still recommend Ubuntu or Mint or even Debian, I have been using openSUSE for years and have never run into a case where I had to compile software.

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Secunergy 🐧@social.tchncs.de
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@raptir @xkforce Isn’t compiling normally for #gentoo ?

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raptir@lemdro.id
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I’m not sure why you are bringing Gentoo into it here. I mean that all the software I have tried to install is either available in the repos or available as an appimage/flatpak. Were it not available in binary form I would need to compile it - and I have not run into that scenario.

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governorkeagan@lemdro.idOP
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I’ll probably end up settling on Ubuntu. Thought I’d try a couple before making a final decision.

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