Fedora: My Indispensable Distro
I've been using Linux for over two years now. I started with Linux Mint, as many "You Should Switch to Linux!" YouTube videos and "Best Linux Distros for Beginners" articles always recommended it to complete beginners. I liked it. It felt absolutely refreshing. Windows had always given me feelings of unease and displeasure. I've had many bad memories with Windows; my first online friends who turned out to be bigots, my first music production hobby that spiraled into chaos, and many more that all happened on a Windows 10 PC. Linux was the start of a new life for me; a life that I never thought I would want.
And while Mint gave me that refreshing feeling, that didn't mean it was completely perfect, and while nothing is 100% perfect in my eyes, I still felt lost using Mint. It wasn't the most difficult to use to begin with, of course; it's actually very simple to use if you have the time to learn. The issue was how my PC actually handled it. Since Mint uses X11, it seems that any newer GPUs (such as the case with my AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT for my PC) can cause Mint to never show up for me. I’ve tried researching how to fix this, but nothing could really work.
So I decided to look for more distros to use. While exploring, I stumbled upon Fedora on some Reddit threads and other forums. It seems that people absolutely love Fedora because it supports new technologies and is more of a rolling-release (although not like Arch, where it's completely bleeding edge) than any Ubuntu-based distro.
I decided to give it a try, and now I can confidently say that Fedora is my favorite distro of all time. I'm currently writing this blog post on a ThinkPad X250 that runs Fedora KDE, and I absolutely love it. My gaming PC also runs an atomic Fedora variant called Bazzite, which is perfect for what I do. Many things work better for me with it than with anything else. And it doesn't require a lot of tinkering, like Arch does, to get things set up properly.
In the end, I've distro-hopped many times. I tried Arch a few times, then openSUSE Tumbleweed, then NixOS, but they all felt either off or difficult, even with the familiar Plasma desktop environment. I try not to learn too much at once because I'm already in the midst of learning something more valuable to me, so I want to put aside ricing and customization for later. But even then, I’ll do those aspects on Fedora only, as it’s now my all-time favorite.
Now, my life has felt even better using Linux. As a highly sensitive person, environment changes can be a struggle for me. But in this scenario, it actually works out in my favor more, and that feeling of excitement for using Linux is a whole lot better for me, even if I have to learn some more terminal commands.
