Been using for 15 years, I've never sat there and worried about gtk or qt, Maybe wayland or X11, but I've just naturally moved to wayland?
Just install something like Fedora, and you won't worry about it, it will just work.
I personally hate Ubuntu btw Canonical is just not for me. I have no idea how it's so popular. Personally Fedora or NixOS are just so superior I don't know why anyone bothers with anything else.
>I personally hate Ubuntu btw Canonical is just not for me. I have no idea how it's so popular. Personally Fedora or NixOS are just so superior I don't know why anyone bothers with anything else.
Ubuntu got popular years ago because they made a distro that supported everything and was really easy to install and use. Fedora has always been a pain because it doesn't support a lot of stuff out of the box (i.e. codecs): a distro that can't even play MP3s was a non-starter for many people 10-15 years ago. NixOS isn't nearly as easy to install and get started with.
Ubuntu has been coasting on its inertia for a long time though, and many other distros have caught up with it or surpassed it, such as Mint, while Ubuntu has been shooting itself in the foot with things like Snaps.
Personally, I prefer OpenSUSE to Fedora. I've been running Leap for several years. Fedora didn't perform as well on my hardware nor was it as stable. Over the last several months, I've been piloting Arch and will likely settle there. Canonical and SUSE are both moving in directions that I'm not in favor of, e.g., tighter coupling to the enterprise/money making side. From a company perspective, sure it makes sense. But from an individual perspective, perhaps less so. I'm not looking for the Linux equivalent of Windows: bloated, telemetry, privacy invading, etc.
NixOS is great in many ways, but it’s really quite difficult to use. Anything that requires use of the command line is a no-go for everyone but hardcore enthusiasts. Even I, who have contributed to Nixpkgs, wish I could just stick to a GUI sometimes. Not to mention how NixOS breaks assumptions software has about your computer and therefore makes development much more difficult than it really needs to be.
>Personally Fedora or NixOS are just so superior I don't know why anyone bothers with anything else.
Could be. I should try NixOS or fedora again but seriously don't overstate it. Cannonical are not my fav company. Installing an LTS ubu works fine, it has annoyances (maybe nixos and fedora are better?) but it's still so incredibly far ahead of windows or macos it's not even close for me. Sure, I'm used to linux on my laptop (thinkpad t480s intel graphics) that anything else will be a massive hassle to maintain, with driver issues, os-level spyware and all that other headache. When I use my kids' macs they always feel janky, windows? Forget it, it's just so unpolished and ew.
Pretty different to RH7 in 2002 in quality and polish when I first tried linux.
With respect I was trying to point out quietly that I've heard that kind of distro-jingoism for 20 years and the failure to appreciate another person's distro of choice to the point where you think nobody should ever be using it is just a bit silly. The distro I use is fine, if yours is even better, great!
Just install something like Fedora, and you won't worry about it, it will just work.
I personally hate Ubuntu btw Canonical is just not for me. I have no idea how it's so popular. Personally Fedora or NixOS are just so superior I don't know why anyone bothers with anything else.