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.
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