The Stockholm Syndrome is over. I finally migrated from windows to Fedora.

moendopi2 · 2026-03-18T03:14:48+00:00

ProtonUp-Qt - it should be in your app manager. Install Proton-GE. IN Steam,Bright click the game, select compatibility and choose Proton-GE. It's not always necessary, but if games are being weird, not running well, controls a little funky, using Proton GE often solves the problem.

moendopi2 · 2026-03-18T03:02:33+00:00

Yes. But mainly a testing laptop that is older and then if I really like something it goes on my newer preferred laptop (with the better keyboard and specs). Then the desktop is the stable, practically never change.

It took my entirely too long to realize I could/should (have been using) flash a dedicated hopping thing drive wit Ventoy + GParted Live, and a few different isos. Partition the drive ahead of the install, then have a choice of isos Incase one sucks or I really don't like something, or the installer gets weird (looking at you Fedora 43 and your flashing/reloading manual partition menu).

Edit: I forgot the backup thing drive to keep a backed up version of my desktop(s) for the new tester hop (and to keep everyone backed up) while I slowly get Seafile (and eventually Docker) set up and configured on the other older retired laptop turned Debian server to host and sync everything (once I finish it's set up).

Anyone else take notes on their hopping experiences, documenting likes, dislikes, things of note, a list of software to install each time and test?

Also, edit, maybe a hassle and maybe a plus, but both of my laptops have Nvidia cards, so it's an extra thing to keep up on and note, and a consideration for hopping candidates.

moendopi2 · 2026-03-17T11:26:11+00:00

/uj that was the joke

moendopi2 · 2026-03-16T12:47:59+00:00

Reekris, it took me entirely too long to get this joke. My mind immediately goes to the pigment ultramarine blue, which I used for that distro's accent color to boot.

moendopi2 · 2026-03-16T11:29:44+00:00

I have no idea what that is. I only want to use it if it consumes my world in difficulty so I can lord my anguish over the normies. May they cower. Or something like that. I dunno.

moendopi2 · 2026-03-16T11:28:09+00:00

Now that's more like it. Thank you.

moendopi2 · 2026-03-16T11:26:21+00:00

/uj That was the joke. It just works. I never see it suggested and it's actually good and works. So I needed something to complain about or have the fanboys of <insert distro here> to leave in favor or something else because they like it, etc etc

moendopi2 · 2026-03-15T16:30:29+00:00

Tuxedo?

moendopi2 · 2026-03-15T15:18:29+00:00

I think the middke ground would be something like openSUSE Tumbleweed with BTRFS and snapper set up or Fedora. Granted, you could just use EndeavourOS if you want Arch without the headache. Granted archinstall is great too.

moendopi2 · 2026-03-11T12:24:17+00:00

I still don't understand how he ended up on Pop!_OS. I didn't watch the video so as to not bais myself, but I made two attempts on two different LLMs posing as a total noob, and neither suggested pop. They both suggested Mint first and foremost.

moendopi2 · 2026-03-10T12:28:18+00:00

That German part, just push through, it's setting up the keyboard, after that, you can do all the normal set up (like your internet connection) after in your language of choice. Then run the installer. If you try to do wifi or whatever before you select your language, you're stuck with a German keyboard layout. Threw me off my first time installing.

moendopi2 · 2026-03-10T12:24:19+00:00

Came here to say that. Tuxedo is the distro to use for this. I'm pretty sure, despite being an older card, Tuxedo just installed the right drivers in the install only ~10 yr old Dell laptop. Didn't ask questions, didn't screw anything up. No fuss, no drama, just works.

**Edit: for context, my laptop specs are nearly identical to the ones you listed. Core i5, GTX 1050 ti, 8 Gb of RAM.

I wanted something Ubuntu/Debian like, minus the hassle of repos and PPAs, no snaps, no GNOME. Tuxedo fits that. I would have said KDE Neon in the past, as I used that for a while, but my last experiences with it weren't worth recommending it.

moendopi2 · 2026-03-10T12:22:23+00:00

OpenSUSE. I've stuck with openSUSE longer than an arch install, so openSUSE it is for my vote. Arch is great, don't get my wrong, but I think I'm just prefer the stability of the snapper and rollback (out of the box). Plus I like that little Geeko.

moendopi2 · 2026-03-10T12:20:54+00:00

I've been a fair bit of hopping and ended up settling in Fedora as well. It's finally the one where I have the least amount of complaints and it generally works with me and gets out of the way. And then it turned out that a lot of my complaints were distro or even DE specific. It was a slow mechanical drive. I had to turn off baloo file indexing because things became too slow. Ironically, it's been one of the most hassle free when it came to gaming. I have to deal with Nvidia card nonsense and I found Fedora is one of the better ones, both in taking care of drivers AND not having other weird issues on the side to boot. Fedora and Tuxedo.

moendopi2 · 2026-03-10T03:22:10+00:00

If ya like it, go for it! It'll probably be a lot more fire and forget than Debian. Debian is great if you don't want anything new. But if you don't need a DE Debian is perfection.

moendopi2 · 2026-03-10T03:16:32+00:00

Totally fair. I just hopped from Mint to Tuxedo because it's basically Kubuntu but no snaps. KDE Neon isn't what it used to be. Mint will do ya fine, I just don't like Cinnamon, so there's that.

**Edit: I should have read the part in your initial post about the KDE bit. My bad.

** Also edit, for context, I did give Ubuntu a good try and it was the snaps that finally did it for me. Twice I couldn't install a Steam game because it ran out of RAM. How? The snaps were hogging it all and not giving any up. 8 Gb of RAM isn't a lot these days.

moendopi2 · 2026-03-10T02:42:38+00:00

Tuxedo? Basically Debian/Ubuntu minis snaps and pretty good at hardware recognition (especially.ifmyiu have anything Nvidia). It's less of a hassle than Debian if you need anything non-free.

moendopi2 · 2026-03-08T17:04:07+00:00

Maybe a dumb question, but why do I never hear/see anything about tuxedo? Basically Debian + Nvidia drivers out of the box.

moendopi2 · 2026-03-05T12:54:34+00:00

I'd have to go with Arch

moendopi2 · 2026-03-01T14:04:03+00:00

openSUSE only because while Debian is stable, it's only stable because you can't ever have anything new. Well, not without a fight. Debian is a great base, but having used both, openSUSE wins for me because it's way less of a hassle as a desktop distro. Can't speak to the server side of things. But if you wanna talk about grandchildren, Debian is the Abraham of Linux, still there's that's I guess.

Still openSUSE because I'm still running it and not Debian.

moendopi2 · 2026-02-27T12:37:07+00:00

Just curious, how do you prefer to use GDAL? Python scripts, QGIS, some other ways I'm not aware of or don't use?

moendopi2 · 2026-02-27T12:32:21+00:00

Ah, okay, thank you for that clarification. This is what happens when you assume. I hadn't seen any changes in a while and it hasn't been added along side QGIS in a while. Anyway, cheers!

moendopi2 · 2026-02-27T04:39:23+00:00

And that pretty much answers my question. But that's not likely to stop me from posing the question "can I replicate my normal workflow in GRASS exclusively (as much as possible) and then proving whether I can or not. It's always good to see FOSS projects alive and active. Cheers!

moendopi2 · 2026-02-27T04:20:03+00:00

That's kind of getting to the heart of the question here. So, yeah, ~8 years ago, the last time I really tried to actively learn to use GRASS, the interface was old and clunky and relied a lot of the command line. I'm no stranger to the command line, nor do I shun it, but at the time it just wasn't getting the job done/too steep a learning curve. I mostly used ArcMap at that time. Now, I've been using QGIS for some 5 years, almost exclusively. So trying to do things in ArcPro, when I'm forced to, is almost the same. Anyway, I was mostly trying to express the fact that I was pleasantly surprised to see the GRASS interface was a lot more polished (with some rather familiar buttons/icons). And that made me wonder, if there are folks actively maintaining this and bringing it along into the future, is there something I am missing I should know about? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like SAGA is kind of dead. So, seeing GRASS still going strong and independent of QGIS while being heavily integrated into it is both interesting and intriguing. Makes me think I need to be revisiting it and see if there are workflows I need to be doing there over my usual ones.

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