I've been on Fedora GNOME since the start of the year and I'm very happy with it too.
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Got my laptop and desktop switched over last October and it's really smooth. I've got to use RDP for work, and was able to set up a xfreerdp command that just works.
Also like that kernel updates just happen and I automatically get a rollback in grub.
I also like that the fedora default repos are more up to date than the Debian ones. Not as bleeding edge as Nix and Arch, but if I need newer stuff I can get it either outside my package manager or add a repo.
I might try my hand at content creation in the future. If you have any input or tips, feel free to share them with the class
You're in luck with KDE! If you're going to be doing Art or Videos, KDE has something for both: Krita and Kdenlive. If you need to record your screen, OBS is usually what I go for. Edit: Inkscape for SVGs, GIMP for image manipulation. Something like Audacity (or it's fork tenacity) for audio manipulation.
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OBS is like the gold standard at this point. I don't use it a lot but the fact that it's so robust and free puts it up next to VLC for me.
Fedora is my Linux of choice, has been for 10 years, and I've never felt the need to change. Sufficiently universal and up-to-date packages, fun tools like cockpit, inbuilt Nvidia driver packages that automatically compile and update in the background, room for power-usering as much or as little as desired. The introduction of DNF5 last year solved my last bugbear which was the clunky updating, all is well now.
I like KDE, there's something very 'brutalist' looking about it, for lack of a better word
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Okay more seriously I've never even dabbled in Fedora, (all I know is that it uses .rpm instead of .deb, and that was 15 years ago so who knows if it's even true anymore). I'm glad it's working out for you! The more viable Linuxes the better.
My next wipe and install, I am considering trying out KDE but every time I've tried to install it alongside my preferred DE, it just tended to break everything. I'm sure a clean install would be fine but it's also learning a whole new environment. I've heard a ton of great things about but only really poked around a bit on it in a VM.
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Glad to hear you're enjoying it after I pestered you so hard to install it when you initially posted. Don't forget to update your mesa/AMD drivers, since mesa 26.0 just came out with a lot of game fixes and improvements, especially for ray tracing. Those still on Mint are missing out.
KDE is great! I used Latte Dock before that got unmaintained and basically with the use of panels and other cuztomization stuff, my KDE just looks like a GNOME ripoff but also MacOS themed (don't ask me why, I just thought it'd looked cool). KDE is honestly a big good project that encompasses the floating window space that's general so you can style it however you want.
Since we're all Linux users here.. I use Arch btw (hah, well.. EndeavourOS technically..?)
I've been using gnome for a long time now on several different distros, I'm now on Fedora with gnome but all of the KDE hype lately has me wondering if I should give it a try. I've been trying to avoid switching just because of FOMO, but trying new stuff can be fun... Maybe I'll try it out on an old laptop or something
I enjoyed my time with cinnamon on mint (and cinnamon is very easy to customize) but the customization options with KDE feel legit endless. Mind you I do think basic KDE is already a pretty nice desktop environment
I use Debian with KDE now, and I'm happy with it to the point the only reason why I haven't deleted windows yet, is that I haven't found the time to move over the files I want to keep to the correct drive.
...though installing drivers for Nvidia was a PITA, and a lot of the guides are written by programmers, for programmers. Noobs not welcome.
As a hat, the fedora is supposed to be on you, not the other way around
actually it's usually a Trilby not a Fedora, Fedoras have wider brims
As a former fedora man and a current pedant, I appreciate you so much