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> really curios if there is ANY overlap of your target audience and fedora users. I believe it's the other way around: no other Linux distribution has a higher
by krn 5y ago
> really curios if there is ANY overlap of your target audience and fedora users.
I believe it's the other way around: no other Linux distribution has a higher overlap with the target market of the Framework Laptop than Fedora.
Because unlike Ubuntu, Fedora Workstation has been specifically design for developers, hobbyists, and early adopters[1].
Personally, I only recommend and install Ubuntu for non-technical people, who don't need or care about always having the most modern OS features.
[1] https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/ https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/
- plokiju 5y agoI’m a developer who’s pretty much always used Ubuntu, and haven't bothered digging too deep into other distros. What are the modern features I’m missing?
- krn 5y agoTo put it simply: most things that you are enjoying in Ubuntu now first showed up in Fedora months or even years ago.
- OnlineGladiator 5y agoWhat does Fedora currently have that Ubuntu is missing?
- Mikeb85 5y agoFedora just gets everything sooner. Newer kernels, gnome, packages. But it's still rock solid because of Red Hat/IBM.
- mathfailure 5y agoWell, that's just bullshit. You either get stuff sooner or get stuff more stable, you can't have 'rock solid' stuff sooner.
- Mikeb85 5y agoDepends what you mean by stable... In my experience, recent Fedora releases don't break. They also have the best laptop compatibility. But if 3rd party software (or your own software) targets specific libs, you need to keep up. Ubuntu is typically about one release cycle behind.
- bashinator 5y agoThe packaging system is what originally brought me to debian and ubuntu; RPM caught up a while back, but apt was better for decades. Stability and easy access to good tooling is what I like about Ubuntu; how is Fedora better?
- bravetraveler 5y agoFedora is a maintainers dream, in my (limited) opinion. Things like mock and fedpkg make modifying upstream/bundling your own stuff up super easy. Then add in COPR (like PPAs) and it's a feedback-loop friendly setup
- nerdponx 5y agoIt's also a very "tidy" system to administer for the most part, although sometimes I get tripped up on the "sysconfig" stuff.
- jl6 5y agoUbuntu feels to me like it’s been feature complete for about ten years and all we really get in the new versions are updated upstream apps and drivers, a stability crapshoot (sometimes better, sometimes worse), and an extension of support. Is Fedora doing anything different?
- krn 5y agoFedora is where most of the innovations in Linux happen, because it's an upstream of CentOS Stream, which is an upstream of RHEL.
- bradwood 5y agoManjaro! It gives you the best of Arch without the tinkerers overhead... I've used RHEL, Debian/Ubuntu, Slackware, et al, and Manjaro, for a laptop, is hands-down the best developer distro out there IMHO.
- hansel_der 5y ago"the early bird get's the worm, but the second mouse get's the cheese."
- pmontra 5y agoI always used Ubuntu on my hardware and about 90% Debian derived distros for customers vs a 10% of Red Hat derived ones, some CentOS and some Amazon Linux 2. I really don't like rpm. I do adapt to the different organization of the configuration files but I prefer the Debian one (maybe because of habit.) Most importantly I feel it's easier to google for solutions to Ubuntu problems. Of course I'm also more used to do that, I'm probably at 20 vs 1 Debian/Ubuntu vs RH machines now.
- hcal 5y agoI have to say I agree. I feel like a lot of people seem to think it is a suit and tie enterprise type boring distribution. Its really not. It has similarities to the enterprise distros, but it certainly doesn't feel like RHEL. Its where the new fun stuff goes first... not so new that it will bite you, but still new enough to be fun to play with. That seems perfectly in line with the marketing I see from framework.