I’m a software developer with plenty of linux experience but I just want a distro that just works without me having to troubleshoot everything all the time. I am lazy and I just want something easy and reliable. I don’t want an update to break it. But I want the ability to customise it if I want to and the ability to install pretty much everything available easily.
Basically I want MacOS, but as Linux. I’m very hopeful that there’s something I have overlooked!
I was about to say Bazzite. But Aurora seems to do the same thing? Fedora UniversalBlue based atomic image, with KDE and a sprinkling of of handy out-of-the-box stuff like proprietary codecs, Nvidia drivers etc
Bazzite is the gaming spin, and basically the starting point for people that want a couch console / HTPC / stationary Steam Deck imo.
Bluefin and Aurora are put together with general computer use in mind, and then both of them can be swapped to a developer-focused “-dx” image with a single command, that adds VS Code and a bunch of development tools.
It just changes the starting point based on if your PC is mainly for work, or mainly for play. All three are just as capable to be set up for whatever.
Thanks, I’m running Bazzite on a (gaming) laptop now, but I’ll install Aurora next time I set up a laptop