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Sadly, DNF5 and the new Anaconda installer didn't make it to the party, in case you were wondering.

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[–] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Fedora should be the default distro we recommend to beginners. Everything just works despite being up-to-date unlike Ubuntu. Still waiting for DNF5, though.

[–] Doods@infosec.pub -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Flatpaks never worked for me though, last I tried was 38.

Also didn't something happen in relation to some encoding?

Pop!_OS would be my recommendation, semi-rolling for sweet driver updates, Ubuntu based for easy searching (how to do x on Ubuntu) and Large software support.

I just remembered that Pop!_OS doesn't ship with vanilla gnome, sadly, which degrades its position as a recommendation.

[–] WereCat@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd argue the "selling" point of Pop!_OS are their non-vanilla GNOME features.

[–] Doods@infosec.pub -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's what I hear Pop people saying.