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I have no idea about who you are, or what your use cases are, or how you even feel about Fedora currently. I used both of these distros for a long long time. I

I have no idea about who you are, or what your use cases are, or how you even feel about Fedora currently. I used both of these distros for a long long time. I enjoyed both of them for different reasons although they were both employed as desktop "Daily Drivers". I used Fedora on my Lenovo T580 because that's what it's certified for. I used Ubuntu from 2006-2022 on more than one system. I will tell you that I'd never go back to Ubuntu at this point. I was honestly prepared to "upgrade" to Debian at the next opportunity. I firmly recommend Debian over Ubuntu now. The main reasons about Ubuntu are that it peaked around 2018, and their insistence on Snaps and other more-or-less proprietary stuff began to ruin stuff that was working fine. In contrast, Debian played catch-up and was no longer horrendously outdated or featureless, and as a result it's matured into a really respectable first choice. I typically used the KDE environment, although my Raspberry Pi ran MATE quite nicely.

gumballindie 3y ago
> I was honestly prepared to "upgrade" to Debian at the next opportunity. Had the same thought as of recently. Debian + KDE. At the end of the day one can just install whatever they need and WMs are distro agnostic anyway. Having said that i think should go ahead and test run ubuntu for a while see how it feels.
lioeters 3y ago
> The main reasons about Ubuntu are that it peaked around 2018, and their insistence on Snaps and other more-or-less proprietary stuff began to ruin stuff that was working fine. That's how I feel also. I had a good run with Ubuntu on numerous machines local and remote, but the past few years have made me question Canonical's technical decisions and the future of this distro. Particularly due to Snap, I can't whole-heartedly recommend it to new users (or onboarding new employees, team members) anymore. Debian, Pop OS, Linux Mint. I'm still exploring my own personal preference. In recent times, I've heard from people that Fedora is a good choice too.

gumballindie 3y ago

> I was honestly prepared to "upgrade" to Debian at the next opportunity. Had the same thought as of recently. Debian + KDE. At the end of the day one can just install whatever they need and WMs are distro agnostic anyway. Having said that i think should go ahead and test run ubuntu for a while see how it feels.

lioeters 3y ago

> The main reasons about Ubuntu are that it peaked around 2018, and their insistence on Snaps and other more-or-less proprietary stuff began to ruin stuff that was working fine. That's how I feel also. I had a good run with Ubuntu on numerous machines local and remote, but the past few years have made me question Canonical's technical decisions and the future of this distro. Particularly due to Snap, I can't whole-heartedly recommend it to new users (or onboarding new employees, team members) anymore. Debian, Pop OS, Linux Mint. I'm still exploring my own personal preference. In recent times, I've heard from people that Fedora is a good choice too.