OrbitalMartian

Fedora Hopping

📆 13 Nov 2025 20:55 UTC +00:00 📕 481 words ⏳ 4 min.
🏷️#Linux#Fedora

A month or so ago, I did a whole series of blosts about me starting my 2 Year Linux Challenge on Arch, then switching to Debian. Well… guess what I did! I distro hopped once again, I hope this isn’t a return to my previous pattern of distro hopping.

This time, I’ve gone back to my old faithful, Fedora. I didn’t realise it, but I actually switched over just a few weeks after the release of Fedora 43.

Why Fedora?

Before my time with Debian and Arch, I was using Fedora; and had been for years. I remember using Fedora 36-40 at least.

I absolutely loved my time using Fedora and it mostly “just works”. Of course with me at the controls, things could go horribly wrong, as they have in the past. I do love using Fedora.

Installation Experience

With Fedora 43, we get the new Anaconda WebUI as the default installer interface. I won’t pretend that I know what it is, but the experience is just as I had expected it to be and remember it being on previous versions.

I set out wanting to have a nice minimal install of Fedora, so I reached out on the Fedora Community and posted this topic which got some really helpful responses. By far, the most frequent suggestion was to use the Fedora Everything installer (which I didn’t know was a thing) and select exactly what I wanted to install atop the base system. I selected to have gnome and cosmic installed which was great. I was using Gnome and had Cosmic to play around with while it’s being developed.

After a couple of days, I decided to install KDE Plasma Fedora currently has version 6.5, the latest, and I have been running that for a few days. Which has been great. For some reason, it decided to set Cosmic Greeter as the Display Manager (login manager) and not Gdm, which was a surprise when I first booted up. I am thinking I’ll install and set LightDM as the DM as that’s what I’m used to and was using on Debian.

What’s Happening With 2 Year Challenge?

Nothing! Absolutely nothing! I don’t want to have a goal of using my distro choice for 2 years, I decided recently that it was too much. I will use what works for me at that time, and if I need to switch, I will, if I don’t, then I won’t. So as of today, I will no longer be partaking in the 2 Year Linux Challenge.

Conclusion

While Fedora is what’s working for me, that might not be the case for everyone. My view of things is, use what works for you, don’t worry about what other people think.

And that’s it for this one, I’ll see you in the next one. BYEEE!!!

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