System Details Report
Hardware Information:
- Hardware Model: Dell Inc. Inspiron 3480
- Memory: 8.0 GiB
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-8265U × 8
- Graphics: Intel® UHD Graphics 620 (WHL GT2)
- Disk Capacity: 240.1 GB
Software Information:
- Firmware Version: 1.25.0
- OS Name: Fedora Linux 39 (Workstation Edition)
- OS Type: 64-bit
- GNOME Version: 45.1
- Windowing System: Wayland
- Kernel Version: Linux 6.5.10-300.fc39.x86_64
Software information says you’re already using Fedora ? Do you mean you want to switch distros ? If so, it’ll be useful to say what you’re looking for and why Fedora didn’t fulfill those needs so we can recommend alternatives.
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- Do you actually want to switch distros? Or just interested in what’s out there?
- If Fedora 39 didn’t satisfy you, then what exactly is bothering you?
- What is it that you seek from your distro? Being out of the way? Freedom? Polish? Blank slate? Security? Privacy? Ease-of-use? Up-to-date? Big repos? etc
I have distro-hopped before so i don’t mind switching
I need a distro which is package-agnostic since i use a lot of old ooen source academic software and they alternate between being only supported on RHEL or Ubuntu
Fedora 39 is great except when i need to build the above mentioned software from source and i spend 2 hrs failing to match the dependencies from Ubuntu
Also want to improvey laptop’s battery life, but i think i can’t get it much better than in Fedora
Thank you for responding!
I need a distro which is package-agnostic since i use a lot of old ooen source academic software and they alternate between being only supported on RHEL or Ubuntu
Perhaps you should look into container solutions like e.g. Distrobox. You can basically install/run any package; just ensure usage of the correct container environment.
Fedora 39 is great except when i need to build the above mentioned software from source and i spend 2 hrs failing to match the dependencies from Ubuntu
If you’re otherwise content with Fedora, then perhaps consider installing the aforementioned Distrobox; which happens to be found within Fedora’s repos and thus one sudo dnf install distrobox away from being installed on your machine.
Also want to improvey laptop’s battery life, but i think i can’t get it much better than in Fedora
I’d argue that Fedora is not best for battery life, though. Minimalist distros tend to be a lot better at this. Installing auto-cpufreq in Fedora Silverblue on my AMD-powered laptop did come with significant improvements, so perhaps you could prolong your battery life by utilizing it or similar programs; think of TLP, thermald etc to name a few.
Thank you for the fast reply
I looked into distrobox and checks all the boxes but there is the issue of my lack of storage space(currently only 130 GB left out of 240)
Also thank you for the suggestions regarding battery life, will look into those.
I would say debian but as others said, are you on hopping distros? Do you have any problem with fedora 39?
You should be fine on basically anything. I have a similar-spec machine running Arch with KDE and it’s rock solid.
