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KaiserProyesterday at 8:00 PM1 replyview on HN

Fedora is an arse to use. most of the distros for non free software are targeted at stable RHEL, so are miles out of date.

You only get 6 months of updates, at which point everything break subtly, or not if you use nvidia.

ubuntu with a custom GUI is the way forward, at least compared to fedora.


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jasomilltoday at 12:34 AM

Counterpoint: I've had very few (and always minor) problems upgrading between major Fedora releases over the years with no more effort than following the well-documented steps to do so, including both traditional and atomic variants, the latter with a wide variety of layered packages as specifically not recommended due to potential problems when upgrading.

And on the server side of things, I ran a Fedora CoreOS VM with a Pihole container that silently and successfully auto-updated both the OS and the service container for years with no intervention on my part.