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this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2026
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I think Fedora is a reliable choice, and if you don't like gnome or plasma any distro will let you install anything else so it's doesn't really matter.
Yeah, but I've had enough cleanup jobs when daily driving Gentoo amd64 branch, I want something OOB
Fedora Spins could be considered out of the box. Plenty of options.
Start on any standard distro do a net install or equivalent and pick a different DE, I'd recommend Ubuntu/Fedora/Debian/Suse, but YMMV