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dnf is yum rewritten for the modern Python 3 world.

I've been using Debian on my own machines for a long time.

I'm not a fan of the Flatpak philosophy mentioned above. It goes against my own own personal philosophy, related to the Unix Philosophy to keep things simple and small. BSD was the operating system I cut my teeth on, a long time ago.

A Flatpak is more than the simple application you want to run. It also carries all the baggage it needs to run with it, everything including the kitchen sink.

If an ordinary app is simply a motorcycle, then a Flatpak is a huge motor home that comes with the motorcycle.

On a motorcycle-only trip across the country you might eat in local restaurants and sleep in motels. On a Flatpak motorcycle trip you eat and sleep in the motor home. A computer with limited resources might have some trouble finding a place to park the huge motor home.

Linux Mint or Raspberry Pi Desktop for PC and Mac may be friendlier Linux distributions for the novice than Fedora. On the other hand, if you've already got Fedora up and running you've already jumped through most of the major hurdles.