I’ve been a Linux user for ~27 years now. I started in ~1999 with Red Hat 7 (not RHEL, RHL) and it was my *full time* desktop OS for 2+ years with Mandrake Linux around 2003. I’ve tried dozens of distros, I know my way around. Eventually I moved to macOS and I’ve been here ever since. I’ve used Linux consistently since then, but mostly just on servers, no desktop, no GUI - Debian-based the whole time. I’ve run Ubuntu in some form since literally 4.04.

Here’s my question: I just picked up a refurb laptop to run desktop Linux again. I considered:

Ubuntu, Mint, KDE Neon, Omarchy, Pop_OS, Elementary, Fedora Silverblue

But I def want Wayland, a solid package manager, and a good library of available software. Not married to flatpack, deb, or snap.

But I think I’m going to go with plain ol Fedora Workstation. I love Ubuntu and apt, but think Fedora just looks awesome and it’s Wayland first. Thoughts?

@thomholwerda @latenightlinux