• SlurpingPus@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    it’s relatively stable until it isn’t. If you don’t have time to fuck around, use mint.

    Elaborate please. I’m weighing installing Fedora for KDE. What kind of fucking around should I expect?

    • Err(()).unwrap()@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Fedora is a very early adopter of new technologies, often even earlier than Arch. They were the first to adopt PulseAudio, the first to use Wayland sessions by default, the first to drop Xorg, and will likely be the first to drop lib32 packages. Any issues that may arise from major upgrades or changes, you are most likely to be exposed to them on Fedora.

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        3 hours ago

        Uh-huh. And how long do I need to run the VM before I run into an ‘isn’t stable’ situation? Half a year, a year, more? Am I supposed to use the VM as my main machine during that time?

        • katze@lemmy.4d2.org
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          2 hours ago

          Just install it, try to install KDE (Gnome is the main desktop of Fedora), see if it works, if you like it, and if you can tolerate the slow ass package manager that is yum.

          Should take you about 30 minutes; no need to be rude about it.

          You can even try it in your browser if you think setting up a VM is too much time wasted: https://distrosea.com/de/start/fedora-44-kde/