r/ultramarine

Hi ladies, gentlemen and everyone in-between. I am considering doing The Switch (tm) over the summer because we all know Windows is named like that because this is where you’re supposed to trow out of. I’ve been doing some… well I’d like to say I’ve been doing research but as someone new to Linux, it looks more like browsing Reddit and watching YouTube. Not really deep stuff. That lead me here.

I have been thinking about Mint as any new users do for a first distro when I buy a new hard drive. However, since I’m an IT student and I am will be doing development using VS Code and Docker later on. I’m sort of scared that Debian base distro won’t be right as the feedback I’ve seen about mint is that you will always be using outdated software. Coding with outdated software feels… dangerous? In the sense that I’m scared of encountering compatibility issues. I am not interested in rolling releases either so Fedora based sounds like the perfect balance.

I have seen Ultramarine once being described as “Mint for Fedora” and that sounds appealing for a beginner. Honestly most I interacted with Linux were server VMs for assignments, Docker and coding basic Bash scripts. Would you guys recommend Ultramarine or should I take the more stable approach and use Mint? You guys know better than me!

I ran the migration script on a Fedora install. I see that this is minimal compared to a full install.

So I'm wondering- if I did a clean install with Ultramarine, what differences would I see?

Im new to ultramarine i previously was on mint i dual boot win 11 for my racing sim and vr, was wondering if theres a simple way to install NVIDIA drivers like in mint some basic research showed it could be possible with disabling secureboot but i am unable to remake manual keys to re add it as all the tutorials show do to the way minisfourm motherboards work so was hoping for a option like mint has to install

In the past few weeks I noticed plenty of system updates on my Ultramarine desktop installation and noticed just yesterday while searching for a package in the dnf list command output that I have the new version of the linux kernel and the new version of GNOME installed. That sounds cool but if I run fastfetch I get that both are running on the old version and I was asking myself if I have to do something manually or if Ultramarine will care of running the commands that will remove GNOME 49 and the 6.x kernel from packages and switch to the new ones beneath one of the upcoming system updates

Thanks in advance and sorry if this may sound like a stupid question but I'm new to linux and don't know how "managed" is intended to be a so called distro like Ultramarine

Ultramarine Kde received kernel 7 today...or earlier. Runs smooth so far without hiccups...

Kudos to the development team!