I’m trying to figure out primary distro for framework 16. Currently using fedora for about year. I’ve package installation automated through ansible so technically using new distro is not big hassle still want to see if there is any other way of easily distro-hoping on bare metal.
I’m long time user of Ubuntu and now pop os so that’s one option and other is bazzite (or similar immutable). I would like to try at least those 2.
Ventoy or LiveUSB if you just want to poke around. There honestly isn’t much difference between all distros anymore aside from package management, and that is somewhat being a bit pushed aside due to portable package distribution.
What exactly are you hoping to find or test?
Ventoy is risky and a bit sus for such a security-critical software.
Glim is another solution for ISO-multiboot-USB that doesn’t require as much trust.
https://glee.thias.es/GLIM
https://github.com/thias/glim
Why is it “sus”? Isn’t it basically a bootloader for isos?
Probably in reference to the binary blob controversy. TL;DR Ventoy has always had unreproducible binaries in it and people want them buildable and documented for security reasons. If you want to go down the rabbit hole, here’s the currently active issue (there were several before this one): https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/3224
Because of all of the blobs it contains. That has caused a lot of people to not trust it.
Ventoy or liveusb is good for installing something but doesn’t seem good idea to actually run long term.
It’s not for long term anything at all, it’s just running a live distro to poke around.
This is why I asked my second question: what kind of things are you looking to check out or compare? That’s helpful in pointing you in the right direction.
If you’re unfamiliar, there is literally almost zero difference between distros aside from very tiny customizations and the underlying package management system.
You won’t find some distro with massive performance gains for any average task. You also won’t find a distro with some optimization that is special that can’t also be applied to any other distro.
So if you find something you like about one distro, you just put that on whatever you’re running (unless you’re talking about package mgmt). Easy Peasy.
Sorry didn’t notice second part as soon as I saw ventoy/liveusb. What I’m looking for is very superficial (apart from atomic distro). I’m looking to see if I like using distro. I’ve exact same packages on my fedora (laptop) and pop os (desktop), I keep thinking I still like pop os (maybe just what I’m used to).
Just to help her: what do you think PopOS is going to give you that Fedora will not?
Maybe just new DE. And I keep having intermittent issues with keyboard in fedora (can absolutely be hardware / firmware issue and I will see it in other distro as well