Both are meh. I wanted to love KDE but it always lets me down. Cinnamon has been great, running a fedora spin with it now. Sway has been calling my name tho.
Gnome apps are better than KDE apps. GParted vs partition manager, for example. Dolphin sucks eggs next to Nemo too.
Just my incorrect opinions obviously. Use the stuff ya like.
Arch was fun for a while. I’m also a fedora enjoyer these days.
##### RPM Fusion & Terra
sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
# https://github.com/terrapkg/packages
sudo dnf install --nogpgcheck --repofrompath 'terra,https://repos.fyralabs.com/terra$releasever' terra-release
sudo dnf group upgrade core
sudo dnf4 group install core
##### firmware
sudo fwupdmgr refresh --force
sudo fwupdmgr get-devices # Lists devices with available updates.
sudo fwupdmgr get-updates # Fetches list of available updates.
sudo fwupdmgr update
##### appimage
sudo dnf install -y fuse fuse-libs
sudo flatpak install it.mijorus.gearlever
##### graphics_drivers
# https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA
### nvidia
sudo dnf install -y akmod-nvidia
sudo dnf install -y --skip-unavailable xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
sudo dnf mark user akmod-nvidia
sudo dnf mark user xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
sudo dnf install -y --skip-unavailable vulkan
sudo dnf install -y --skip-unavailable xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs
modinfo -F version nvidia
reboot
lsmod | grep nouveau
sudo lspci -vnn
#look for your gpu, and see what module is in use. Should be nvidia :)
##### Media Codecs
sudo dnf4 group install multimedia
sudo dnf swap 'ffmpeg-free' 'ffmpeg' --allowerasing # Switch to full FFMPEG.
sudo dnf upgrade @multimedia --setopt="install_weak_deps=False" --exclude=PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin # Installs gstreamer components. Required if you use Gnome Videos and other dependent applications.
sudo dnf group install -y sound-and-video # Installs useful Sound and Video complementary packages.
##### H/W Video Decoding with VA-API
sudo dnf install -y --skip-unavailable ffmpeg-libs libva libva-utils
##### OpenH264 for Firefox
sudo dnf install -y --skip-unavailable openh264 gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 mozilla-openh264
sudo dnf config-manager setopt fedora-cisco-openh264.enabled=1
# After this enable the OpenH264 Plugin in Firefox's settings.
##### gaming
sudo dnf install -y steam lutris gamemode goverlay meson gcc pkgconf
sudo flatpak install bottles Proton-GE protontricks Heroic ludusavi
protonup-qt (flatpak)
# get from https://flathub.org/apps/net.davidotek.pupgui2/install
# would not install from cli from flathub for some reason :eyeroll:
This is about my distro hopping journey. (kinda freaky honestly) Skipping the Red Hat CD’s from compusa and some other fun times over the past 20 years ago or so.
-LMDE is my keep going back to distro if I need it to just get out of the way, but have more creature comforts than vanilla debian. Cinnamon is great, it’s kde without the issues for me. The driver manager is excellent and just everything from the mint utilities, themes, and polish are lovely.
-MX/void/antix…I’ve never had the patience to learn not systemd. These are rad, I love the older school window managers and the light weight indie vibe. Maybe I’ll stop being lazy and keep screwing with them in vm’s and actually learn other init’s.
-Manjaro, I wanted to love you so fucking bad, I tried to more than twice and you were a massive disappointment each time. (if it’s working for you, cool. But you should really just look at EndeavourOS/Cachy OS, you’ll have a way better time)
-Did the Arch from scratch thing. Just to do it. btw, I ran Arch.
-Endeavour/CachyOS are amazing and you’ll have a good time for the most part. More complete experience than doing it yourself with much less effort.
-Fedora, ohh fedora. We’ve wanted to love you forever and ever. Going back to running linux as a Daily driver a few years ago, when I re-visited fedora it was exactly as this picture describes. Ironically, I just installed fedora, replacing cachyos last night. I spent the time to research and translate my arch notes into fedora and so far I’m pretty happy. Bit more fiddling out of the box than the derivative distros obviously. Gaming performance is what I expected once we got settled in and I haven’t run into any show stoppers yet.
It really doesn’t matter what distro you run. As long as you can install and run the software you need, and interact with it in a way that makes since to you, then have fun. It’s your computer.
Any advice? Or some good dot files / configs / guide you used?