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I started with Mandrake and Red Hat, moved to Slackware, then Gentoo, Ubuntu, Mint, and landed on Fedora about 12 years ago. That's my "solid, no-frets, no-hass

I started with Mandrake and Red Hat, moved to Slackware, then Gentoo, Ubuntu, Mint, and landed on Fedora about 12 years ago. That's my "solid, no-frets, no-hassle, Linux OS". But a lot of people want Ubuntu, Arch, or one of their variants, because they solve some problem that the user perceives, better than one of the other distros. The variety of choice that we have available is one of the greatest strengths of OSes built around the Linux kernel.

inglor_cz 5y ago
We had a very similar development. In my case it was Mandrake, RedHat, Gentoo, openSUSE and now I oscillate between Fedora and Ubuntu. It is my experience that while Fedora generally works really well, if something goes wrong, it is seriously wrong and cannot be fixed until the great devs decide to do so. In my case, it was a recurring X11 glitch that returned more than once in several Fedora releases. (I reported it to their bug tracking system.) On the other hand, Ubuntu has such a massive user base that any problem I encountered already seemed to have a working workaround.