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Nope, this is about usage statistics. Fedora was huge years ago, but Ubuntu has taken the "easy" desktop user, Arch has taken the power user and there's a ton o

Nope, this is about usage statistics. Fedora was huge years ago, but Ubuntu has taken the "easy" desktop user, Arch has taken the power user and there's a ton of competition in the server space, with CentOS being an effective drop-in replacement. Fedora just doesn't really have a home anymore and hasn't done anything to really set itself aside from the competition.

rwmj 8y ago
Apart from being an integrated, polished distro that brings together all the latest development tools. And being the basis of RHEL, CentOS etc. And the distro used by tons of Linux developers. Yeah it's done nothing at all.
- simion314 8y ago
  >And being the basis of RHEL Fedora users are testers for RedHat, this does not mean that next RH release will be identical to Fedora from today, as an example the current RH uses a classical GNOME setup by default in a way telling us that GNOME UX innovations were not appreciated by RH for the workstations
  - russdpale 8y ago
    No but many, many of the nrw things you see in fedora make it into rhel. Its one the reasons fedora exists.. Somehow I dont see the emoji picker making it into rhel 8 though!
    - simion314 8y ago
      I understand that, but what is the advantage of a Fedora user, your are testing bleeding edge stuff for RH, only if you are in for the bleeding edge and experimental features and you also are working with RH and CentOS servers.2
- thawkins 8y ago
  Linus runs Fedora
pjmlp 8y ago
In case you haven't been paying attention Canonical came to the same conclusion as Red-Hat and decided to pivot into server and IoT space, as Linux desktop hardly brings any money into business. So the "easy" desktop user is on its way out.
- jhall1468 8y ago
  No it isn't. Canonical didn't pivot, they entered the space. Brand awareness is what the underlying desktop market is for, while server provides income via support contracts. But Ubuntu desktop isn't going anywhere (on the contrary, Ubuntu subsystem for Windows shows Canonical wants to embed more into the desktop market).
  - pjmlp 8y ago
    Ubuntu might have been the first being supported on WSL, nowadays it is just an option among many.
_ph_ 8y ago
At work, most of our Linux installations are Red Hat and CentOS, so for me, Fedora is the ideal distribution for a cutting-edge Linux which is mostly compatible with our software platform. Besides that, I quite like Fedora.
- narwally 8y ago
  I see the same with Ubuntu. I've seen a lot of developer switch to Ubuntu based distributions because they've become comfortable with using it as their production environment, and it's nice to have the same underlying environment for development. I think moving into the server space was beneficial to Canonical on its own, but It's also brought a lot of developers to their desktop platform.

rwmj 8y ago

Apart from being an integrated, polished distro that brings together all the latest development tools. And being the basis of RHEL, CentOS etc. And the distro used by tons of Linux developers. Yeah it's done nothing at all.

simion314 8y ago
>And being the basis of RHEL Fedora users are testers for RedHat, this does not mean that next RH release will be identical to Fedora from today, as an example the current RH uses a classical GNOME setup by default in a way telling us that GNOME UX innovations were not appreciated by RH for the workstations
- russdpale 8y ago
  No but many, many of the nrw things you see in fedora make it into rhel. Its one the reasons fedora exists.. Somehow I dont see the emoji picker making it into rhel 8 though!
  - simion314 8y ago
    I understand that, but what is the advantage of a Fedora user, your are testing bleeding edge stuff for RH, only if you are in for the bleeding edge and experimental features and you also are working with RH and CentOS servers.2
thawkins 8y ago
Linus runs Fedora

pjmlp 8y ago

In case you haven't been paying attention Canonical came to the same conclusion as Red-Hat and decided to pivot into server and IoT space, as Linux desktop hardly brings any money into business. So the "easy" desktop user is on its way out.

jhall1468 8y ago
No it isn't. Canonical didn't pivot, they entered the space. Brand awareness is what the underlying desktop market is for, while server provides income via support contracts. But Ubuntu desktop isn't going anywhere (on the contrary, Ubuntu subsystem for Windows shows Canonical wants to embed more into the desktop market).
- pjmlp 8y ago
  Ubuntu might have been the first being supported on WSL, nowadays it is just an option among many.

_ph_ 8y ago

At work, most of our Linux installations are Red Hat and CentOS, so for me, Fedora is the ideal distribution for a cutting-edge Linux which is mostly compatible with our software platform. Besides that, I quite like Fedora.

narwally 8y ago
I see the same with Ubuntu. I've seen a lot of developer switch to Ubuntu based distributions because they've become comfortable with using it as their production environment, and it's nice to have the same underlying environment for development. I think moving into the server space was beneficial to Canonical on its own, but It's also brought a lot of developers to their desktop platform.