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Dangerous opinion, I've recently moved to Fedora after Ubuntu and after customising it on the GNOME desktop, it's literally Ubuntu (But better) in every way except no snaps.

Personally as someone who got the ground running using Ubuntu as my 1st Linux distro, fedora is a comfortable transfer and I really like their spins.

Sure DNF can be slow but you can fix that and sure redhat can be a little... difficult with their decisions.

What do you think of Fedora? So far I enjoy the stability combined with near-arch levels of getting new updates!

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[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

it's literally Ubuntu (But better) in every way except no snaps.

That would be Debian, friend.

[–] brayd@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Debian is awesome but only if you don't care about having the newest features and updates.

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

True. I can't understand why anyone would choose having the newest features over stability. But each to their own.

[–] ProtonBadger@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

This looks like a fallacy in the argument. Ubuntu is generally known as being very stable as well, they tend to avoid breaking changes over the lifetime of a release and there are LTS releases to boot.

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