I too made the humble journey from Gentoo, starting first 2002 before multicore CPUs when stage0 to Xorg took days. Then to Sabayon and finally to Fedora KDE spin when Gentoo had their massive data loss without backups. Also when a standard cron update suddenly replaced everything with SystemD which was a shock if you weren't paying attention. I also got a great job with Red Hat which I've since moved on from but continue to be active in the Fedora community.
Fedora KDE spin is still my ride or die and I highly recommend it. Writing RPM specs is second nature now and easier than ebuilds for me. You can choose your release or use rawhide for that rolling release bleeding edge feel. Plenty of community repos are available and the COPR system copr.fedorainfracloud.org/ analogous to Portage overlays where you can even contribute your own repos or try out other kernels or system projects.
The most important benefit though is always being prepared for what comes next to the downstream RHEL and EL derivatives which is super helpful for career. Working in enterprise just feels natural if your daily box runs Fedora.
It takes a few minutes to try out and the ISO is actually smaller than the standard Gnome ISO even though all the same repos are used.
Great review, thanks - definitely want to keep this on my radar.
always being prepared for what comes next to the downstream RHEL and EL derivatives
This is an underrated point, and part of what;'s drawing me to Debian too. Might be worth installing again as a secondary even if I choose something else.
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I too made the humble journey from Gentoo, starting first 2002 before multicore CPUs when stage0 to Xorg took days. Then to Sabayon and finally to Fedora KDE spin when Gentoo had their massive data loss without backups. Also when a standard cron update suddenly replaced everything with SystemD which was a shock if you weren't paying attention. I also got a great job with Red Hat which I've since moved on from but continue to be active in the Fedora community.
Fedora KDE spin is still my ride or die and I highly recommend it. Writing RPM specs is second nature now and easier than ebuilds for me. You can choose your release or use rawhide for that rolling release bleeding edge feel. Plenty of community repos are available and the COPR system copr.fedorainfracloud.org/ analogous to Portage overlays where you can even contribute your own repos or try out other kernels or system projects.
The most important benefit though is always being prepared for what comes next to the downstream RHEL and EL derivatives which is super helpful for career. Working in enterprise just feels natural if your daily box runs Fedora.
It takes a few minutes to try out and the ISO is actually smaller than the standard Gnome ISO even though all the same repos are used.
spins.fedoraproject.org/en/kde/
Great review, thanks - definitely want to keep this on my radar.
This is an underrated point, and part of what;'s drawing me to Debian too. Might be worth installing again as a secondary even if I choose something else.