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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by vanviegen on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @02:36AM (#43251509)
Ubuntu isn't what it used to be, unfortunately. I'm pretty much in love with Aurora [1] nowadays. It's an immutable distro (for a smartphone-like upgrade experience) based on Fedora and KDE, rock solid, sane defaults, a good selection of dev tools, proper nvidia support if you want it, and it feels really snap!

[1] https://getaurora.dev/

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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by RDaneel0livaw on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @09:02AM (#43254715)
Just curious, what do you think Aurora itself does better than regular fedora kde?
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by vanviegen on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @04:42PM (#43260087)
I haven't used plain Fedora much, but Aurora just 'feels' more coherent, polished and stable than other distro's I have used in recent years. I tend to notice bugs/rough edges in all of them, but Aurora somehow just works. Having a strictly fixed core allows it to be fine-tuned better, I guess? Or perhaps it's just in my head. :-)

All non-core software is provided by Flathub (through the Discover app) and Brew (for cli apps). Both have worked flawlessly for me as well.

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