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>I’ve been running a couple of Fedora versions as desktops on fully supported hardware and, oh my, they were quite bad in terms of stability (bluetooth not work

>I’ve been running a couple of Fedora versions as desktops on fully supported hardware and, oh my, they were quite bad in terms of stability (bluetooth not working, video calls breaking), speed, and general UX when compared with Ubuntu. These things have little to do with the distro. They should be identical, barring version differences. Maybe you had breakage with Fedora because of bleeding edge stuff, but the other way round is equally likely, where Ubuntu LTS will be too old for new hardware. Once your hardware is 1-2 years old, all distros become largely identical. And if your hardware is already old, RHEL/Rocky/Alma will work too.

sitzkrieg 4y ago
i have compared several distros on a 4yr old workstation with all supported hardware and had catastrophic differences
- bubblethink 4y ago
  Did you have an nvidia GPU perchance ? Hardware issues are a function of the kernel and all distros do an adequate job of maintaining/backporting to their branch. What's an example of a catastrophic difference ?
  - sitzkrieg 4y ago
    no, intel integrated. usually the DE randomly stopping working (crashing/looping login screen etc) not even after updating is what id call catastrophic. , or things that are usual suspects like bluetooth, wifi, integrated audio, etc working flakey vs other distros
simion314 4y ago
- Maybe that is the reason, Fedora probably ships bleeding edge stuff that is not well tested, you get the latest features but a the same time you get the latest bugs. - There are also configuration differences, ubuntu can blacklist some hardware for certain features. - Ubuntu also gets bug reports from users and customers, the developers will apply the fix in Ubuntu but it might take time until the upstream project applies the fix, or even if upstream applies the fix it will only appear in the other distros in the new release unless the distro has the energy to backport non security stuff.
- gtirloni 4y ago
  > Maybe that is the reason, Fedora probably ships bleeding edge stuff that is not well tested, you get the latest features but a the same time you get the latest bugs. Fedora releases every 6 months. Just keep using $latest-1 and enjoy a ton of fixes.

sitzkrieg 4y ago

i have compared several distros on a 4yr old workstation with all supported hardware and had catastrophic differences

bubblethink 4y ago
Did you have an nvidia GPU perchance ? Hardware issues are a function of the kernel and all distros do an adequate job of maintaining/backporting to their branch. What's an example of a catastrophic difference ?
- sitzkrieg 4y ago
  no, intel integrated. usually the DE randomly stopping working (crashing/looping login screen etc) not even after updating is what id call catastrophic. , or things that are usual suspects like bluetooth, wifi, integrated audio, etc working flakey vs other distros

simion314 4y ago

- Maybe that is the reason, Fedora probably ships bleeding edge stuff that is not well tested, you get the latest features but a the same time you get the latest bugs. - There are also configuration differences, ubuntu can blacklist some hardware for certain features. - Ubuntu also gets bug reports from users and customers, the developers will apply the fix in Ubuntu but it might take time until the upstream project applies the fix, or even if upstream applies the fix it will only appear in the other distros in the new release unless the distro has the energy to backport non security stuff.

gtirloni 4y ago
> Maybe that is the reason, Fedora probably ships bleeding edge stuff that is not well tested, you get the latest features but a the same time you get the latest bugs. Fedora releases every 6 months. Just keep using $latest-1 and enjoy a ton of fixes.