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To put it simply: most things that you are enjoying in Ubuntu now first showed up in Fedora months or even years ago.

by krn 5y ago

OnlineGladiator 5y ago
What does Fedora currently have that Ubuntu is missing?
- Mikeb85 5y ago
  Fedora just gets everything sooner. Newer kernels, gnome, packages. But it's still rock solid because of Red Hat/IBM.
  - mathfailure 5y ago
    Well, that's just bullshit. You either get stuff sooner or get stuff more stable, you can't have 'rock solid' stuff sooner.
    - Mikeb85 5y ago
      Depends 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 ago
The 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 ago
  Fedora 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 ago
    It's also a very "tidy" system to administer for the most part, although sometimes I get tripped up on the "sysconfig" stuff.
jl6 5y ago
Ubuntu 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 ago
  Fedora 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 ago
Manjaro! 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."

To put it simply: most things that you are enjoying in Ubuntu now first showed up in Fedora months or even years ago.

by krn 5y ago

To put it simply: most things that you are enjoying in Ubuntu now first showed up in Fedora months or even years ago.

OnlineGladiator 5y ago

What does Fedora currently have that Ubuntu is missing?

Mikeb85 5y ago
Fedora just gets everything sooner. Newer kernels, gnome, packages. But it's still rock solid because of Red Hat/IBM.
- mathfailure 5y ago
  Well, that's just bullshit. You either get stuff sooner or get stuff more stable, you can't have 'rock solid' stuff sooner.
  - Mikeb85 5y ago
    Depends 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 ago

The 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 ago
Fedora 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 ago
  It's also a very "tidy" system to administer for the most part, although sometimes I get tripped up on the "sysconfig" stuff.

jl6 5y ago

Ubuntu 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 ago
Fedora 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 ago

Manjaro! 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."