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Fedora has an existing look of being... too easy/friendly/noobish? It's not necessarily the trendy "at your own risk" distro others choose. However, I complet

Fedora has an existing look of being... too easy/friendly/noobish? It's not necessarily the trendy "at your own risk" distro others choose. However, I completely feel Fedora is going to be the strongest distros in the mix in the next decade. ostree, docker-image-based, read-only images are going to be The Thing (tm). I'm hoping they take CoreOS and continue it as a server-oriented minimal distro, and use it as a base layer for the desktop-oriented ones like Silverblue. I wish I could articulate this better, but this is how 1 person is creating their own customized version of Fedora Silverblue - with Github workflows: https://github.com/pkulak/filverblue/blob/main/.github/workflows/build-filverblue.yml https://github.com/pkulak/filverblue/blob/main/.github/workf... I can just rebase off of that image and try it out like a git remote branch. Add in eventual plans for dm-verity and such, and Fedora's distros (kinoite, silverblue, (sigacea?)) are going to be leaders. Much more dependable and predictable.

caycep 3y ago
The one thing I would want to know before switching from fedora to ubuntu - there's a ton of software support given ubuntu's prior popularity, so it always seems like the path of least resistance getting set up for basic things like a samba server or for a pytorch/CUDA development setup - how far along is this with Fedora? Similarly, there's a ton of user generated tutorials/technical and configuration answers online for ubuntu - I am hoping Fedora has this sort of material floating around? Similarly, it seems the Fedora community exists by the good graces...of IBM - how much independence would it have in the future?
- scoodah 3y ago
  In my experience I’ve not had any issues finding resources and materials for most anything I want to do with Fedora. That said I also migrated from Arch to Fedora when I needed to pick between Ubuntu and Fedora for work, so I was used to being a bit more hands on to begin with.
StoneTable 3y ago
Universal Blue (https://universal-blue.org/ https://universal-blue.org/) takes the OCI-based Silverblue and extends it even further, including bluefin (https://universal-blue.org/images/bluefin/ https://universal-blue.org/images/bluefin/) which aims to provide an Ubuntu-like desktop experience for those of us who've given up on Ubuntu/Canonical.

caycep 3y ago

The one thing I would want to know before switching from fedora to ubuntu - there's a ton of software support given ubuntu's prior popularity, so it always seems like the path of least resistance getting set up for basic things like a samba server or for a pytorch/CUDA development setup - how far along is this with Fedora? Similarly, there's a ton of user generated tutorials/technical and configuration answers online for ubuntu - I am hoping Fedora has this sort of material floating around? Similarly, it seems the Fedora community exists by the good graces...of IBM - how much independence would it have in the future?

scoodah 3y ago
In my experience I’ve not had any issues finding resources and materials for most anything I want to do with Fedora. That said I also migrated from Arch to Fedora when I needed to pick between Ubuntu and Fedora for work, so I was used to being a bit more hands on to begin with.

StoneTable 3y ago

Universal Blue (https://universal-blue.org/ https://universal-blue.org/) takes the OCI-based Silverblue and extends it even further, including bluefin (https://universal-blue.org/images/bluefin/ https://universal-blue.org/images/bluefin/) which aims to provide an Ubuntu-like desktop experience for those of us who've given up on Ubuntu/Canonical.