Dangerous opinion, I’ve recently moved to Fedora after Ubuntu and after customising it on the GNOME desktop, it’s literally Ubuntu (But better) in every way except no snaps.
Personally as someone who got the ground running using Ubuntu as my 1st Linux distro, fedora is a comfortable transfer and I really like their spins.
Sure DNF can be slow but you can fix that and sure redhat can be a little… difficult with their decisions.
What do you think of Fedora? So far I enjoy the stability combined with near-arch levels of getting new updates!
Assuming you’re on Fedora 40: sudo dnf install dnf5
Yes, I’m on Fedora 40 and I can’t recommend this enough! Also, enable fastestmirror and parallel downloads (and also defaultyes if you want)!
What’s dnf5?
This seems to be default on 39
Some people say it’s “evil” since some drama with RedHat or something? I actually never looked into that drama and it’s probably overreaction of someone but has anyone heard of it or an idea what it’s about?
Fedora Workstation here as well. Stopped my distrohopping for good. Even when I install the betas it seems very stable.
Tested the KDE spin on a spare laptop too and it seemed fine as well.
It’s unfortunate that a lot of people are reluctant to try Fedora because the name sounds like a tips fedora meme
I want to fork Fedora and literally just change the name. Same thing with Mastodon and “toots”.
Maybe Nobara is a good alternative for people who would care about that? Its pretty close to stock fedora AFAIK (I’m still a novice tho)
Pretty close yes, but honestly anyone who would write the distro off for that reason alone isn’t serious enough about computing for it to matter which OS they pick. Only use Nobara if your main intention is gaming. Its not worth picking a niche distro unless you have a very good reason or thats part of the fun for you.
I happily use Fedora for workstation purposes but hate to admit I use it, so it’s an accurate critique. It’s a great operating system though, naming aside.
I am on Fedora. Beware fedora has SElinux enabled. That can cause you issues if you follow a guide written for Ubuntu.
Its been solid for me for few years now
What do you think of Fedora? So far I enjoy the stability combined with near-arch levels of getting new updates!
I switched away from other distros to Fedora (KDE spin), and am happy here.
Do I wish they were better open-source citizens, yes, of course! But they’re still allot better than Microsoft/Windows close-source solution.
And as far as the distro goes, its nice to have solid support for hardware, and a good rolling release cycle that doesn’t brick my OS, and that has quick support for gaming, etc.
If you’re the type of person who wants a Windows alternative OS to use as just a tool for gaming/business first and foremost, and not to tinker with the OS for fun (unless they want to), Fedora is the best, and what we all should be proposing to others when they ask about moving to Linux.
It’s a case of personal preference, but Fedora+KDE is superior than Fedora+Gnome.
I’m happy with it except for the inability to hibernate out of the box. Same for most distros though I think?
I’m looking at putting Fedora Silverblue on my laptop (it’s shared between myself and my wife) after an update went bad on EndeavourOS — context
From what I’ve seen it looks rock solid.
Maybe take a look at universal-blue.org, especially the Aurora (KDE) or Bluefin (Gnome), too. It’s basically the same, but with some QoL stuff already added, like proprietary drivers and more already set up for you for a nicer experience.
I’ve just finished installing Silverblue on the laptop but will give Bluefin a shot. Thanks for the tip!
If you want a stock gnome experience from the ublue image (like the one you get from silverblue), look for the ublue-main image
AFAIK the uBlue stock image is even leaner than Silverblue. uBlue doesn’t contain any pre-installed Flatpaks by default.
Wait doesn’t ublue have the gnome apps installed as flatpaks¿? I have always rebased silverblue to ublue because I have had trouble with the ublue installer - some efi issues in grub
Fedora took away one of my biggest hobbies namely distro hopping. It’s so good i haven’t installed another Linux for 4+ years. Before fedora I would never use a distro for more than a couple of months. It’s beautiful, it’s solid and it’s vanilla. Everything is shipped as the original developer intended.
I distro hopped. i mainly used pop, but I had poor performance with gnome so I started hopping again. And after using arch and opensuse, but after several updates causing issues, I moved to Fedora mainly to try atomic distros. After loving Kinoite and bazzite, I put fedora KDE on my main machine and I don’t see myself leaving.
it’s literally Ubuntu (But better) in every way except no snaps.
That would be Debian, friend.
Debian is awesome but only if you don’t care about having the newest features and updates.
True. I can’t understand why anyone would choose having the newest features over stability. But each to their own.
This looks like a fallacy in the argument. Ubuntu is generally known as being very stable as well, they tend to avoid breaking changes over the lifetime of a release and there are LTS releases to boot.
Not just newest features, newest documentation, bug fixes, and optimizations as well. When I started with Linux, I had many issues that were further exasperated by finding answers for newer versions of software. Nowadays my servers run debian!
DNF is getting rewritten in C++ for next release to make it as fast as pacman
I wouldn’t call it a dangerous opinion, Ubuntu is a great starter distro and was probably top dog back then, it is just that their recent actions have been not liked by the Linux community.
I personally fell in love with opensuse tumbleweed w/ kde 6, but I do want to give fedora a try at some point as well.
Here I am on Fedora wanting to try Tumbleweed
I’ve been using fedora since 2016 and love it. Switched to the KDE spin 2-3 years ago and love that even more. It’s the right balance of fully-fledged OS while still letting me tinker. I don’t have time for Arch-level setup BS, and distros like Mint and Manjaro and Ubuntu felt too clunky and restrictive to me.
