On 2022-05-02 04:36, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
Thanks. Ugh.

Your timing is perfect, because I'm just about to do a fresh install and this would be the time to decide on something else.

I'm looking for an alternative that will offer support for a KDE version as well as Steam and my fairly-new AMD graphics card (RX 6500 XT). I'd also prefer to live snap-free.

Mint and Pop don't support KDE, SuSE has problems with Steam and I'm exhausted enough that I don't want one more learning curve wrt the Arch way of doing things. Right now my best choices appear to be MX, KDE Neon (if I install the 32-bit libraries for Steam) and (if I want to go back to an RPM-based system for the first time since Mandriva ceased,) Fedora KDE.

Any suggestions, either from these choices or something else? Thanks again.

Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada
@evanleibovitch / @el56

I have had very good luck with Fedora.
I am extremely happy with YUM/dnf and RPMs.

Mixed feelings about snaps.
They are kind of like docker containers but seem to have a bunch of extra stuff with them.
I have found great utility in containers to solve all kinds of problems with otherwise unresolvable software dependencies.

YMMV.
I run Gnome.
I tend to do bunches of software testing and installation.
I never run games ( The last one I tried was a Sikorsky LHX helicopter simulator and nothing yet has come close ).


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