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From Ubuntu to Fedora or what distro?

2 points by tomordonez 9y ago

I used Fedora a few years ago. Moved to the Mac. Moved to Ubuntu. Back to Mac. Back to Ubuntu. I might move back to Fedora. Any recommendations?

rfz 9y ago
What's been your reasoning for switching every time? Pick a distro, stick with it, and learn to customize it to your liking.
- tomordonez 9y ago
  simplicity. used for web browsing, terminal and listen to music. light. I tried installing Debian. Half an hour later the install crashed :)
  - rfz 9y ago
    That's odd. No insight as to what caused it? Generally shouldn't be much of a difference you'd notice for those tasks other than the desktop environment.
    - tomordonez 9y ago
      the install was taking about 30 min. It said something like 'software install' error. Continue. Error loop. On the other hand I tried Fedora and it installed in 5 min. no errors :) yeah you are right not much difference. Ubuntu Unity and in Fedora Gnome 3 look almost the same to me. Although I tried Gnome3 on Ubuntu before too.
mabynogy 9y ago
Was on Fedora before. Debian is ok and better than Ubuntu IMHO.
- tomordonez 9y ago
  What was your main reason from moving from Fedora to Debian. Is it the package manager or any other reason?
  - mabynogy 9y ago
    At that time, Debian Tesing was more stable than a standart Fedora.
ch215 9y ago
After years of distro hopping, I settled with Elementary: https://elementary.io/ https://elementary.io/
- tomordonez 9y ago
  this looks very interesting and I like the screenshots but I wonder this is more for general use and not towards development use.
pacuna 9y ago
I moved from Ubuntu to Fedora a couple of weeks ago (on a Macbook pro) and it's has been awesome so far.
- tomordonez 9y ago
  I am trying Fedora on a VM. It looks similar to Ubuntu. Trying to get use to the package manager. What are a few things you like about Fedora after moving from Ubuntu.
  - pacuna 9y ago
    I think they were mainly related to my machine. On Ubuntu my laptop was getting super hot all the time, even with extra tools and extra drivers installed. Also I was using Ubuntu with Gnome, and it wasn't so fluid. With Fedora, Gnome just works perfectly, the laptop doesn't get hot and the battery just lasts longer.

2 points by tomordonez 9y ago

I used Fedora a few years ago. Moved to the Mac. Moved to Ubuntu. Back to Mac. Back to Ubuntu. I might move back to Fedora. Any recommendations?

rfz 9y ago

What's been your reasoning for switching every time? Pick a distro, stick with it, and learn to customize it to your liking.

tomordonez 9y ago
simplicity. used for web browsing, terminal and listen to music. light. I tried installing Debian. Half an hour later the install crashed :)
- rfz 9y ago
  That's odd. No insight as to what caused it? Generally shouldn't be much of a difference you'd notice for those tasks other than the desktop environment.
  - tomordonez 9y ago
    the install was taking about 30 min. It said something like 'software install' error. Continue. Error loop. On the other hand I tried Fedora and it installed in 5 min. no errors :) yeah you are right not much difference. Ubuntu Unity and in Fedora Gnome 3 look almost the same to me. Although I tried Gnome3 on Ubuntu before too.

mabynogy 9y ago

Was on Fedora before. Debian is ok and better than Ubuntu IMHO.

tomordonez 9y ago
What was your main reason from moving from Fedora to Debian. Is it the package manager or any other reason?
- mabynogy 9y ago
  At that time, Debian Tesing was more stable than a standart Fedora.

ch215 9y ago

After years of distro hopping, I settled with Elementary: https://elementary.io/ https://elementary.io/

tomordonez 9y ago
this looks very interesting and I like the screenshots but I wonder this is more for general use and not towards development use.

pacuna 9y ago

I moved from Ubuntu to Fedora a couple of weeks ago (on a Macbook pro) and it's has been awesome so far.

tomordonez 9y ago
I am trying Fedora on a VM. It looks similar to Ubuntu. Trying to get use to the package manager. What are a few things you like about Fedora after moving from Ubuntu.
- pacuna 9y ago
  I think they were mainly related to my machine. On Ubuntu my laptop was getting super hot all the time, even with extra tools and extra drivers installed. Also I was using Ubuntu with Gnome, and it wasn't so fluid. With Fedora, Gnome just works perfectly, the laptop doesn't get hot and the battery just lasts longer.