Linux

I've installed Arch before. I can't claim I've ever really used it as a daily driver — going through the installation is something of a rite of passage in the Linux world, and I've done it, but I've never committed to it long-term for everyday use.

Debian is where I go for learning purposes and specific tasks. It's not my daily driver — that's Fedora KDE — but it's the distribution I reach for when I want to understand something more carefully, or when I need a system that is as stable and predictable as possible for a defined purpose.

Fedora KDE is the Linux setup I've settled on and genuinely enjoyed the most. It feels like an unlocked version of macOS — or just a clean, honest operating system that gets out of your way. This section has two parts:

Fedora KDE is the Linux distribution I've landed on and the one I've enjoyed using the most. It feels like an unlocked version of macOS — clean, coherent, honest about what it's doing — or just a well-built operating system that cooperates with you rather than tolerating you.

This is an abbreviated practical guide for getting the most out of Fedora KDE. It covers the things I actually use — package management, enabling extra repos, Flatpak, useful KDE tweaks, and a few quality-of-life settings worth knowing about.

Linux Mint is my go-to recommendation for anyone moving to Linux for the first time, and it's the first thing I install when I'm not sure whether a piece of hardware is going to cooperate. When I'm skeptical about driver support or compatibility, I install Mint — it's the distribution that consistently just works.