What Linux Operating Systems do you like?

[Mercurial]

That's a COPR repo right? I tend to avoid them.

cachy extra repository, so part of the distro not necessarily an AUR package (it can be pacman'd for official Arch) and is installed by default.

COPR is a Fedora repo? no idea about their repositories (Deb/Arch more my bag).

Edit - Ah, had a google, the Fedora community repo, fair enough, though i'd imagine the dev's own upload would be OK (i'm a lot less leery of community maintained packages on home desktop as opposed to a corporate environment). Though there is a Flatpak if you use that.

 

[WantoN]

cachy extra repository, so part of the distro not necessarily an AUR package (it can be pacman'd for official Arch) and is installed by default.

COPR is a Fedora repo? no idea about their repositories (Deb/Arch more my bag).

Edit - Ah, had a google, the Fedora community repo, fair enough, though i'd imagine the dev's own upload would be OK (i'm a lot less leery of community maintained packages on home desktop as opposed to a corporate environment). Though there is a Flatpak if you use that.

I do indeed flatpak, though for this it'd likely need some cli tweaks. I tend to opt for official upstream or RPM fusion when I can.

I set a mission of making this build more secure than my usual slap-dash approach, but oc/UV has been a pain point. I initially discounted it, but I'm very tempted by LACT now, especially given, as you say, it's the Devs upload.

I use MangoHud, didn't know about Mango juice but a GUI for config is very appealing so I'm nabbing that tomorrow, and I'll have one more crack at getting it working with COPR distros before I cave.

Appreciate the info thank you!

 

[Mercurial]

No problem, and you've prompted me to re-acquaint myself with Red Hat/Fedora which I've not used personally (except for a brief play with Bazzite & Nobara) or professionally for about 15 years! Also it is a worthy endeavour to seek to be more secure and organised so don't give up , but some utilities, especially those related to gaming aren't deemed relevant enough, especially to the more business focused distributions (of which I would count Fedora) so you are hard pushed not to use an external source, unless you want to write/configure something yourself which you sound like you are doing to an extent.

Mangojuice is a lovely frontend for MangoHud (imo) and takes the slog out of making changes on the fly, I think you'll like it. Good luck

Edit - you mentioned CLI in relation to Flatpaks, do you use Flatseal? it can help with permission woes, if that is what you need to address.

 

[WantoN]

No problem, and you've prompted me to re-acquaint myself with Red Hat/Fedora which I've not used personally (except for a brief play with Bazzite & Nobara) or professionally for about 15 years! Also it is a worthy endeavour to seek to be more secure and organised so don't give up , but some utilities, especially those related to gaming aren't deemed relevant enough, especially to the more business focused distributions (of which I would count Fedora) so you are hard pushed not to use an external source, unless you want to write/configure something yourself which you sound like you are doing to an extent.

Mangojuice is a lovely frontend for MangoHud (imo) and takes the slog out of making changes on the fly, I think you'll like it. Good luck

Edit - you mentioned CLI in relation to Flatpaks, do you use Flatseal? it can help with permission woes, if that is what you need to address.

Im aware of Flatseal but I hadn't tinkered. It's a great shout and I'm going to research, thank you.

I'm very pleased with Fedora. I wanted to make a permanent switch and reacquaint myself with Linux. I set myself some challenges along the way; secure boot, privacy focused, strong gaming but not a gaming OS, make NVidia work, get full GPU VM passthrough, work from home, wife-friendly.

I agonised for a while, but overall Fedora was the right choice for me. I've approached it like a project; logged everything, planned software stack, drafted pretty robust documentation along the way. I swapped to a 6800xt midway, and if LACT fixes my woes, it'll be time to test a Kopia backup restore and then final wipe / fresh install to validate all my documentation.

I'm still pretty green, but doing it this way has at least help the knowledge stick somewhat

KDE Plasma to my eye is very slick, very configurable, and provides most of the dials and knobs in the GUI. Bundled apps are also pretty great, and I love the System Info and desktop widgets.

That said, there's been enormous opportunity to re-familiarise myself with the command line!

 

[Mercurial]

You've touched on a couple of the great things about Linux right there; it doesn't matter if it is Arch/Debian/Fedora you can install whatever desktop UI you prefer into whatever distribution you like and there's always more than one way to go about achieving any one task/goal. If Fedora does what you want, how you want and looks how you like, then more power to you