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It’s the same for me for my Fedora install on my laptop, I installed version 38 when I got my laptop and now it’s on version 44, next week I’ll upgrade it to 45. It’s been rock solid, never had any issues with it.
Jumped on the Fedora ship with 36.
Updating to 43 or 44 broke my install so seized the occasion to try Silverblue instead of Workstation.
It’s even better although the immutable side has its limitation, so I’m happy to have another computer for these.
Fedora is based on debian?
Nope, they're completely separate distro families!
Fedora was originally based on Red Hat. Later it became the main open distro in that family, and now Red Hat Enterprise is based on Fedora.