Hi All,
I used to like Arch Linux a lot on my dekstop, but then wife gifted me a Macbook Pro with M2 and my desktop did not switch on for 3 years. Recently I had to work from home however, the big monitor was occupied by her so I thought of reusing my desktop. Fired up and Arch loaded perfectly. Even after 3 years the updates happened and there were some hiccups. I think I got used to of Mac so wanted to change to something easier. My first attempt was Pop_OS, that amazing distribution simply failed to boot due to my GTX 1070 Nvidia card incompatibility with Wayland. Same issues with Ubuntu 26.04 and Kubuntu 26.04. Ofcourse I did the usual tricks like nomodeset, but nothing worked. Then I did a sweet hack, installed Lubuntu 26.04, which is on X11 and then installed ubuntu-desktop. All my Nvidia drivers were super easy to install. However, the fonts and look and feel in general was very ugly. Maybe due to a combination of Lubuntu + Ubuntu, but it looked no way comparable to my Mac. A Freiend suggested to install Fedora KDE and I was amazed to see that despite having Wayland, Fedora booted up fine with GTC 1070 ( pascal). Without Nvidia drivers, it was not good, but after install and drivers ( 580 version for pascal ), now my desktop looks amazing. I would still not say that its same as Mac, which is still more beautiful, however, Fedora KDE is the best looking Linux I have seen. Its so fast, everything works fine. I’m planning to host my local LLM on it and make it my fun desktop.
Thank you Fedora.