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does anyone use fedora as their desktop? when i worked with RHEL,centos and rpm, I liked it quite a bit. However, ever switching to ubuntu, everything just wor

does anyone use fedora as their desktop? when i worked with RHEL,centos and rpm, I liked it quite a bit. However, ever switching to ubuntu, everything just works better and it seems like more people use ubuntu based distributions. If fedora software is actually newer, it might be a worthy desktop

wdfx 4y ago
I've been using Fedora as daily driver since the i3 spin was made official (which actually was only a few versions ago). I am much preferring the experience vs. [k]ubuntu.
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h4waii 4y ago
I’ve been using Fedora since release ~30 on desktop and laptop, previously a Debian user for like 15 years. I think it switched cause I wanted Wayland and more recent Gnome at the time. Everything more or less always seems to work without issue, I’ve done upgrades, swapped out hardware over the years and never had any show-stopping bugs. More recently I became a package maintainer and it’s been an excellent process, from the documentation to the community. I used to be weary of RPM and the “dependency hell” but it’s not really a thing anymore. I like picking the right tool for the job, and so far Fedora has worked out well in this regard, but Ubuntu, MacOS, Windows, etc all have their place.
spicyusername 4y ago
I've been using Fedora Desktop since ~25 or so. It also typically "just works" and has much newer packages in it's repos.
maztaim 4y ago
Fedora software is typically newer. I enjoy using it over Ubuntu, but my work experience kind of influenced me to be more comfortable with Fedora over Ubuntu or others. It just works well for me, but that could be my years of using it.
mroche 4y ago
Typing this from my Fedora based workstation, been daily driving Fedora since switching from RHEL 8 to Fedora 34 last April. As I don't work in or use Ubuntu-ecosystem-centric tools (this was a PITA when I was working on a RHEL 6 based HPC cluster) I don't really run into any issues. And for applications if there's something not in the primary repos (Fedora + RPM Fusion) there's typically a Flatpak covering my use case.
nortonham 4y ago
on a laptop a couple of years ago, fedora 33. I liked it generally, but for linux I am more of a debian person.
AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
If you count Silverblue, I use it on almost everything but my primary desktop, which runs Windows 10.
gtaylor 4y ago
I switched my personal laptop (Dell XPS 17) from Ubuntu to Fedora about a year ago and have been pleased. The GPU situation is more polished, suspend and resume works with less quirks, and I like the more recent versions of upstream software. I’ve also been feeling pessimistic about Ubuntu’s general direction and Snaps in particular.
2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
It's been my main desktop for 2+ years and on my home server since Fedora 28 or 29. I also have it on a Surface Go 3 and Lenovo W541 laptop. It's great.
unmole 4y ago
I switched to Fedora after ~14 years of using Ubuntu as my daily driver. One year in, it's been rock solid. Although I did accidentally screw up the Windows install while doing an upgrade.
jjtheblunt 4y ago
Fedora 37 is working _great_ for me on a graviton2 (or graviton3? i forget) for several weeks too, just as a data point.
nbaksalyar 4y ago
> does anyone use fedora as their desktop? I've been using it since Fedora 21 which amounts to almost 8 years. In these 8 years, I've had zero problems with the OS - besides some proprietary Nvidia driver issues which are/were pretty common on Linux; since I've switched to AMD GPUs I haven't had any problems whatsoever. Upgrades go smooth every time, even when upgrading to beta versions. Fedora is a rock-solid distro and I always recommend it over alternatives.
bentheklutz 4y ago
I've been dual booting fedora alongside windows as a desktop since somewhere around 25 and have been pretty pleased with it. As others mentioned, I had some issues with nvidia drivers initially and have purchased AMD graphics cards since then partially due to that. I've found that fedora strikes a balance between up to date software and reduced requirement for tinkering that suits my uses better than alternatives I've tried as a general desktop.
saltcured 4y ago
> it seems like more people use ubuntu based distributions. I think it depends which sub-populations you measure. The modern web and social media can make it hard to understand how your anecdata are sourced. I think the marketing behind Ubuntu is a large part of its visibility, expanding into a bit of a vacuum left by Red Hat's turn towards enterprise and away from regular users. This has compounded over the years with more network effects among new users. I'd say that cloud hosting and blogging environments have had more novice user influence than prior enterprise and university-based environments that had more senior-driven inertia. From my POV of academic and scientific computing with a sprinkling of enterprise consultancy, there used to be a strong Red Hat bias in US (maybe North American?) Linux usage with SuSE having a similar role in Europe. When RHEL emerged, this preference was inherited by CentOS and Scientific Linux. I don't know exactly how my own filter bubble developed, but I had little awareness of Debian until the Ubuntu marketing arrived and I read the back story. It was one of those parallel world experiences. Perhaps I knew more about SuSE as "the competitor" due to high-performance computing conferences being dominated by US, western Europe, and East Asia participation back in those days.
rickstanley 4y ago
I'm planing on switching to Nobara[0] after it's updated to 37 as well. I had a rough time in the same distro with my Asus Rog Zephyrus G15 2022, like keyboard backlight not switching off and freezes after inactivity or moving the mouse slightly slower. [0]: https://nobaraproject.org/ https://nobaraproject.org/
herbst 4y ago
I recommend fedora to anyone as starter distro, I run manjaro as my desktop (aka lazy arch). Ubuntu is not what it was anymore IMO.
mxuribe 4y ago
I actually used ubuntu for desktop for many, many years, and really didn't have many issues with it. At some point i moved to Linux Mint (can't recall why, or maybe just to distro hop)....and stayed from about version 17.1 (Rebecca?) til about 19.2 (Tess or Tina?)...and at some point got annoyed with Mint...so hopped to Fedora ~early 2020, and have enjoyed it ever since. While both ubuntu and fedora work nicely, i *feel* like Fedora has newer things in it. Certainly with Snaps, Flatpaks, and AppImages, technically one can keep living in a world with newer things....but i favor fedora's near-cutting edge approach. I have not tried Arch yet or any of the rolling distros....that seems a tad too cutting edge for me. Of course everyone's mileage may vary. But nowadays Fedora runs really nicely on desktops, and i have no desire to hop to any other distro (for desktop). Not that you asked, but for servers, it has been ubuntu all the way for me...but that's simply for familiarity, and work has only required a basic ubuntu server to do a job, and cary on with other matters. I have no experience with non-ubuntu stuff on the server side. While i know tons of people who run CentOS on servers, i don't know anyone who personally runs fedora on the server. (I'm excluding mention of good ol' Solaris, BSD, and other unix systems from back in the ol' days of course. ;-)

wdfx 4y ago

I've been using Fedora as daily driver since the i3 spin was made official (which actually was only a few versions ago). I am much preferring the experience vs. [k]ubuntu.

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h4waii 4y ago

I’ve been using Fedora since release ~30 on desktop and laptop, previously a Debian user for like 15 years. I think it switched cause I wanted Wayland and more recent Gnome at the time. Everything more or less always seems to work without issue, I’ve done upgrades, swapped out hardware over the years and never had any show-stopping bugs. More recently I became a package maintainer and it’s been an excellent process, from the documentation to the community. I used to be weary of RPM and the “dependency hell” but it’s not really a thing anymore. I like picking the right tool for the job, and so far Fedora has worked out well in this regard, but Ubuntu, MacOS, Windows, etc all have their place.

spicyusername 4y ago

I've been using Fedora Desktop since ~25 or so. It also typically "just works" and has much newer packages in it's repos.

maztaim 4y ago

Fedora software is typically newer. I enjoy using it over Ubuntu, but my work experience kind of influenced me to be more comfortable with Fedora over Ubuntu or others. It just works well for me, but that could be my years of using it.

mroche 4y ago

Typing this from my Fedora based workstation, been daily driving Fedora since switching from RHEL 8 to Fedora 34 last April. As I don't work in or use Ubuntu-ecosystem-centric tools (this was a PITA when I was working on a RHEL 6 based HPC cluster) I don't really run into any issues. And for applications if there's something not in the primary repos (Fedora + RPM Fusion) there's typically a Flatpak covering my use case.

nortonham 4y ago

on a laptop a couple of years ago, fedora 33. I liked it generally, but for linux I am more of a debian person.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago

If you count Silverblue, I use it on almost everything but my primary desktop, which runs Windows 10.

gtaylor 4y ago

I switched my personal laptop (Dell XPS 17) from Ubuntu to Fedora about a year ago and have been pleased. The GPU situation is more polished, suspend and resume works with less quirks, and I like the more recent versions of upstream software. I’ve also been feeling pessimistic about Ubuntu’s general direction and Snaps in particular.

2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago

It's been my main desktop for 2+ years and on my home server since Fedora 28 or 29. I also have it on a Surface Go 3 and Lenovo W541 laptop. It's great.

unmole 4y ago

I switched to Fedora after ~14 years of using Ubuntu as my daily driver. One year in, it's been rock solid. Although I did accidentally screw up the Windows install while doing an upgrade.

jjtheblunt 4y ago

Fedora 37 is working _great_ for me on a graviton2 (or graviton3? i forget) for several weeks too, just as a data point.

nbaksalyar 4y ago

> does anyone use fedora as their desktop? I've been using it since Fedora 21 which amounts to almost 8 years. In these 8 years, I've had zero problems with the OS - besides some proprietary Nvidia driver issues which are/were pretty common on Linux; since I've switched to AMD GPUs I haven't had any problems whatsoever. Upgrades go smooth every time, even when upgrading to beta versions. Fedora is a rock-solid distro and I always recommend it over alternatives.

bentheklutz 4y ago

I've been dual booting fedora alongside windows as a desktop since somewhere around 25 and have been pretty pleased with it. As others mentioned, I had some issues with nvidia drivers initially and have purchased AMD graphics cards since then partially due to that. I've found that fedora strikes a balance between up to date software and reduced requirement for tinkering that suits my uses better than alternatives I've tried as a general desktop.

saltcured 4y ago

> it seems like more people use ubuntu based distributions. I think it depends which sub-populations you measure. The modern web and social media can make it hard to understand how your anecdata are sourced. I think the marketing behind Ubuntu is a large part of its visibility, expanding into a bit of a vacuum left by Red Hat's turn towards enterprise and away from regular users. This has compounded over the years with more network effects among new users. I'd say that cloud hosting and blogging environments have had more novice user influence than prior enterprise and university-based environments that had more senior-driven inertia. From my POV of academic and scientific computing with a sprinkling of enterprise consultancy, there used to be a strong Red Hat bias in US (maybe North American?) Linux usage with SuSE having a similar role in Europe. When RHEL emerged, this preference was inherited by CentOS and Scientific Linux. I don't know exactly how my own filter bubble developed, but I had little awareness of Debian until the Ubuntu marketing arrived and I read the back story. It was one of those parallel world experiences. Perhaps I knew more about SuSE as "the competitor" due to high-performance computing conferences being dominated by US, western Europe, and East Asia participation back in those days.

rickstanley 4y ago

I'm planing on switching to Nobara[0] after it's updated to 37 as well. I had a rough time in the same distro with my Asus Rog Zephyrus G15 2022, like keyboard backlight not switching off and freezes after inactivity or moving the mouse slightly slower. [0]: https://nobaraproject.org/ https://nobaraproject.org/

herbst 4y ago

I recommend fedora to anyone as starter distro, I run manjaro as my desktop (aka lazy arch). Ubuntu is not what it was anymore IMO.

mxuribe 4y ago

I actually used ubuntu for desktop for many, many years, and really didn't have many issues with it. At some point i moved to Linux Mint (can't recall why, or maybe just to distro hop)....and stayed from about version 17.1 (Rebecca?) til about 19.2 (Tess or Tina?)...and at some point got annoyed with Mint...so hopped to Fedora ~early 2020, and have enjoyed it ever since. While both ubuntu and fedora work nicely, i *feel* like Fedora has newer things in it. Certainly with Snaps, Flatpaks, and AppImages, technically one can keep living in a world with newer things....but i favor fedora's near-cutting edge approach. I have not tried Arch yet or any of the rolling distros....that seems a tad too cutting edge for me. Of course everyone's mileage may vary. But nowadays Fedora runs really nicely on desktops, and i have no desire to hop to any other distro (for desktop). Not that you asked, but for servers, it has been ubuntu all the way for me...but that's simply for familiarity, and work has only required a basic ubuntu server to do a job, and cary on with other matters. I have no experience with non-ubuntu stuff on the server side. While i know tons of people who run CentOS on servers, i don't know anyone who personally runs fedora on the server. (I'm excluding mention of good ol' Solaris, BSD, and other unix systems from back in the ol' days of course. ;-)