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Having tried Elementary OS, various versions of Fedora, Suse, and even Mageia and Bodhi (e17 desktop), I have never found a compelling story away from Ubuntu's
by vegabook 10y ago
Having tried Elementary OS, various versions of Fedora, Suse, and even Mageia and Bodhi (e17 desktop), I have never found a compelling story away from Ubuntu's overwhelming advantage in online resources for non-greybeards like me. Last night, compiling mesa, with all the weirdo dependencies, this was brought home to me as half the time as I typed in an obscure package that I had to find, Google was autocompleting it with "ubuntu" appended on it. Says it all. And in my mind, snap is already gaining massively more mind-share than flatpak and everything else and that's why it's almost certain to win. And that's a good thing. It's good because Ubuntu does desktop awareness better than anyone else, in my opinion, and of course, half the battle is community building. Not just the tech.
That said, I will hand it to Fedora on ARM, where I use it quite extensively on dev boards.