“we replaced the browser with ad ware, that we even admit we had to ship settings to minimise its malware effect”

if you’re worried about the integrity of the sources you’re installing from why are you using app images? Use a repo, or flathub

Any of the ostree variants of Fedora, be they Fedora Official or downstream ones like the Universal Blue family

Fedora’s repo build has had this turned on for literally years

there is some change of workflow, but its not difficult. The benefits outweigh the changes or any perceived draw back IMHO

Any chances you guys could suggest me one setup that “just works” no ifs and no buts? Or does it not exist in the Linux world?

You’ve given so little insight into your experience

My most recent hardware has been fine

• My framework 13 amd works perfectly with Fedora Kinoite.
• My Minisforum UM780XTX has been a great Steam console with Bazzite
• My desktop is a gigabyte x570 board with a ryzen 3700X and a 5700XT GPU, has been solid for years, running Fedora KDE and then Kinoite.
• My workstation at work is a HP 845 G11 and it works fine, also running Fedora Kinoite

In the past I’ve had thinkpads (an X1 carbon and a T485), also good choices

Over my 12 years of using Linux as my daily for work and home (and about 13 years of fiddling with it on and off before that), avoid realtek hardware, avoid nvidia gpus, avoid switchable graphics, avoid strange OEM feature devices. Check hardware for compatibility before you buy it. Stick to mainstream distros, not niche 1 man community distros. I’ve moved to immutable/atomic distros because they are harder to tinker with outside of user space, as historically tinkering is what got me into trouble, now I do that in a container away from my base OS.

I rebase my work machine to rawhide just for fun and testing

I just build what they need, networks, auth, security etc -I’ll leave teaching to the teachers

I Sysadmin in education here in Brisbane. Half our server stack is Linux on a Nutanix hypervisor. I do all my work from Linux, my junior admin recently moved his workstation to Fedora KDE, I use Kinoite.

The student and staff devices are 95% Windows, manager doesn’t care what we use to administer. Officially we’re a “Microsoft School”

On an atomic distro your build environment should be in a container, where it doesn’t matter what ships with the base image

It also taints the kernel with a useless module and doesn’t really offer much in the way of features over plain old kvm qemu

Haven’t you just recommended 3 stale Ubuntu variants there?

I can’t remember if it was 99 or 2000, I got a copy of Red Hat 6.0 (Hedwig) on the cover of a magazine and installed it. I remember the Lilo boot manager giving me trouble and then it was multiple days of dialing up the internet on my dad’s PC to find info on getting X11 to run correctly on my graphics hardware. Once I got that going it was my win modem that defeated me in the end, couldn’t get any internet. So was back to Windows for another couple of years.

In 2003 my university course had a Linux Administration subject and the lecturer had built a live cd of Fedora Core 2 (this was in the days before live cds were a regular thing) it was a revelation and it worked with much less setup. We had a Linux lab, but the livecd allowed us to work on Linux on our personal machines. I’d dabble with Linux and explore distros for a few years, depending on hard ware compatibility, I’d always have at least one Linux box. I remember attempting to get HalfLife 2 running in Cedega (a commercial fork of wine), even played the original left4dead with friends, this was in 2008. I was there when pulse audio launched before it was ready and when KDE moved to version 4 and was an absolute resource hog. I bought the unreal and tournament games on disc to play on Linux. Was Disappointed when the UT3 release got delayed and then eventually canceled. I remember going to the id software ftps to get the Linux binaries for all the quakes. There were a few other Linux adventures in there, like a misguided attempt at compiling Gentoo in 2007 and working out mythtv server as a media pc and pvr.

Was excited when I got beta access to steam in 2012, and I haven’t had Windows on my personal computers since then.

This is true, because each layered package is reinstalled every time a new compose is pulled. If you layer 100 packages, 100 packages get re-installed. Which massively slows the update process

They didn’t murder centos, they changed its development so that its upstream of RHEL, one point release ahead. For 95% of deployments it makes no difference, for the last few percent RHEL proper is available for free for non-commercial purposes and if it’s commercial then buy a license or use another clone.

Most people have bought into FUD, and spout off the same BS points, and were never centos users to begin with.

I’ve been running Fedora OStree variants for over two years. I version upgraded and rebased between entirely different spins, rawhide and over to ublue variants then back to fedora mainline. All off the original install, keeping my userspace intact. Never once has it self destructed.

I run it in podman in user context, root is not required

Nothing, someone who never needed access to the RHEL snapshot source is butt hurt that it only exists as part of centOS stream, making it harder for community rebuilds to exist.

It’s no big deal for 95% of users, truly a nonissue. That last 5% can buy RHEL for production or use it for free for personal hosting or development.

now that you mention it the sound card was initially strange, until I found which output I needed at set it to proaudio output.

Chromebooks are a great way to get 100% compatible Linux hardware. Even though it was underpowered, the old chromebook I had fedora on was one of the best Linux machines I’ve ever had