(TL;DR:Reached a point where Windows no longer adds much value to my personal laptop, and maintaining multiple OS installs just feels like clutter now. Thinking of simplifying everything into one clean Linux setup, probably PopOS or Fedora.) main use case - development and productivity with great importance to ui/ux
So guys, I’ve been using Windows 10 as my main OS until a few months back, while also dual booting Linux alongside it (Debian and Arch). I’ve never really tried any distros outside Debian, Arch, and Ubuntu. The main reason I kept Windows as my primary OS was gaming, since I used to play a lot of PC games. Apart from that, I also used it for applications like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro, and a few other Windows-only software. But things changed. I don’t really game anymore due to various reasons, mainly time constraints. Ithinidayil I upgraded to Windows 11 too, but honestly I didn’t like it much. And recently, I barely even use those Adobe apps or Windows-only applications anymore either, so Windows itself feels like it has lost most of its relevance in my setup. Even then, if any Windows-specific use case does come up, I still have access to my sister’s Windows laptop to run those applications. For almost the past year, Debian has basically become my main OS, mainly for development purposes, though I still use Windows equally from time to time. The issue is, I don’t really like the current UI/UX setup either, I messed it up so hard, I was thinking of reinstalling the os, My old Arch setup and configs are all messed up, and honestly I don’t feel like spending time ricing and rebuilding everything again. Now I’ve got three OSes sitting together with no real benefit, just wasting storage space and making things unnecessarily cluttered. So I finally thought, why not just move to a single OS setup?
After doing some basic digging around and based on what I’ve been seeing online, I’ve narrowed it down to either PopOS or Fedora, feel free to suggest me anything else that matches my current use case ie. development and productivity, What I’m looking for now is something with a much better UI/UX experience than Windows out of box, while still being solid for development and daily use.