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I'm not so sure it's strong anymore. Ubuntu all but owns the set it and forget it desktop market and Arch is effectively the standard for power users. Fedora's

I'm not so sure it's strong anymore. Ubuntu all but owns the set it and forget it desktop market and Arch is effectively the standard for power users. Fedora's market share is just dwindling, because there's no where that it outperforms the competition.

Buttons840 8y ago
I found Fedora easier to install than Ubuntu, and it has a more polished UI. I've also never had to wait 2 years for a library I care about to be updated in their repositories. I got started with Ubuntu around 2008. I wish I could remember why I took the leap from Windows to Linux exactly, but I've forgotten what prompted me to try it. Ubuntu seemed to surge in popularity around that time. Now that I've tried both though, I have a hard time understanding why anyone who is familiar with both Fedora and Ubuntu would choose Ubuntu.
- dralley 8y ago
  >I found Fedora easier to install than Ubuntu Since Fedora 28, I agree. Prior to that, I very much preferred the Ubuntu installer to the Fedora one.
eropple 8y ago
> I'm not so sure it's strong anymore. Ubuntu all but owns the set it and forget it desktop market and Arch is effectively the standard for power users. In my neck of the woods, neither of these is true. Ubuntu was the standard for a long time and is almost certainly a strong majority of new desktop installs, but I've seen Fedora make something of a resurgence over the last couple years to the point where "all but owns" is too strong a phrase. I know one person who uses Arch. (I will say this: unlike the Gentoo folks, you can't tell an Arch user.) And it seems...fine. But I think calling it a "standard" for power users is a stretch.
- jhall1468 8y ago
  Maybe power users wasn't the right term. It's the standard for perfectionists or the detail-obsessed? Interesting that you're seeing a resurgence of Fedora since I can't think of the last time I talked to a Fedora user. I suppose that's the nature of anecdata.
  - eropple 8y ago
    You are right now. ;) I went to Fedora (28 on my work laptop, Rawhide on my desktop) largely because it mostly resembles my RHEL/CentOS production environments--dnf rather than yum, but that's a performance improvement more than anything--and is roughly as supported as Debian/Ubuntu for third-party software.

Buttons840 8y ago

I found Fedora easier to install than Ubuntu, and it has a more polished UI. I've also never had to wait 2 years for a library I care about to be updated in their repositories. I got started with Ubuntu around 2008. I wish I could remember why I took the leap from Windows to Linux exactly, but I've forgotten what prompted me to try it. Ubuntu seemed to surge in popularity around that time. Now that I've tried both though, I have a hard time understanding why anyone who is familiar with both Fedora and Ubuntu would choose Ubuntu.

dralley 8y ago
>I found Fedora easier to install than Ubuntu Since Fedora 28, I agree. Prior to that, I very much preferred the Ubuntu installer to the Fedora one.

eropple 8y ago

> I'm not so sure it's strong anymore. Ubuntu all but owns the set it and forget it desktop market and Arch is effectively the standard for power users. In my neck of the woods, neither of these is true. Ubuntu was the standard for a long time and is almost certainly a strong majority of new desktop installs, but I've seen Fedora make something of a resurgence over the last couple years to the point where "all but owns" is too strong a phrase. I know one person who uses Arch. (I will say this: unlike the Gentoo folks, you can't tell an Arch user.) And it seems...fine. But I think calling it a "standard" for power users is a stretch.

jhall1468 8y ago
Maybe power users wasn't the right term. It's the standard for perfectionists or the detail-obsessed? Interesting that you're seeing a resurgence of Fedora since I can't think of the last time I talked to a Fedora user. I suppose that's the nature of anecdata.
- eropple 8y ago
  You are right now. ;) I went to Fedora (28 on my work laptop, Rawhide on my desktop) largely because it mostly resembles my RHEL/CentOS production environments--dnf rather than yum, but that's a performance improvement more than anything--and is roughly as supported as Debian/Ubuntu for third-party software.