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Is there a reason to pick Fedora over Ubuntu? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago by CarlLandry357@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Ubuntu is the leading distro, if I'm not mistaken. It's also compatible with Mint, Zorin, Xubuntu, etc, which are another leading distros than Fedora. Is it only for redhat users or secondary distro?

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[–] overcast@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

  • the corporate side of Red Hat is far less evident on Fedora than Canonical’s on Ubuntu

  • vanilla UX

  • Atomic editions

  • fast yet stable updates

  • more lightweight ISO

it also has disadvantages, specially for nontechnical folks

  • Free Software Policy (NVIDIA drivers and some codecs not pre-installed)
  • non LTS version available (Atomic desktops are easier to manage if keeping un-updated for very long periods)
  • it uses RPM packages which are good, but there might be some software only offering DEBs (containers and extraction tools can help with that)
[–] jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago
  • non LTS version available (Atomic desktops are easier to manage if keeping un-updated for very long periods)

Fedora is a semi-rolling release distribution, so this isn’t really a problem for a desktop or laptop. It’s really an advantage for desktops and laptops.

  • it uses RPM packages which are good, but there might be some software only offering DEBs (containers and extraction tools can help with that)

A lot of software is packaged as a Flatpak image, so less of a problem then it used to be.

[–] voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

If you want LTS, you would pick something like RockyLinux. They offer support for 10 years per release.