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The original was posted on /r/fedora by /u/PalowPower on 2024-10-16 13:24:26+00:00.

I’ve been an Arch user for quite some time now and really enjoy it. For the sake of productivity and simplicity I’m looking to move away from Arch.

I tried many distributions inside VMs and looked which one suited me best. I started off with VanillaOS (really cool for “normal” people who just want to browse the web and stay productive. Locks you out of the system too much for my taste), then Debian (Just what I need but everything is so outdated) and finally Fedora.

I’ve installed Fedora on a spare SSD and I’ve been trying it out for around a week now. I must say I’m rather confident that this will replace Arch for me. I haven’t gotten it to crash, software is pretty up to date and you have access to the whole system if you want. I love GNOME although I usually throw a bunch of extensions at it and pray for it to work. After the update to GNOME 47 on Arch, a lot of extensions broke but luckily Fedora is still on GNOME 46. It’s been really stable so far except for one minor hiccup where GNOME was lagging and telling me my memory was full (it wasn’t). I’m not sure but it might have been the SSD (it doesn’t have the best r/w speed to be honest). In the entire week I had to access the CLI only once and that was to install steam (Steam Flatpak still has minor flaws)

One minor thing in addition to why I want to switch away from Arch: With Microsoft fucking Windows right now, I’m sure many are taking a sneak peek at Linux. I have a few friends I’m trying to convince to finally ditch Windows but they only see me with my Hyprland Arch Setup spending most of my day in the shell. I understand that looks intimidating if you don’t know what you’re looking at. Using an easy distro like Fedora may make Linux look less hard to use.

Yeah so these are my experiences so far. I hope it will continue going this way, if so, Fedora will soon replace Arch as my Desktop. How where your experiences prior or after the switch? :D