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Lenovo now ship with Fedora (lemmy.ca)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Fedora is better than Ubuntu?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

I'm sure there are opinions both ways. I think the reason Fedora is the headline is because it is the more recent addition. Lenovo has had an Ubuntu option on some machines for a few years now. Fedora is a fairly recent addition.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Generally yes

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ubuntu fucking sucks, every distro is better than Ubuntu

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm using Linux mint, I think it's build on Ubuntu. It's all i know, but I hear arch is awful for beginners.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ubuntu is based on Debian so regular Mint is actually 2 levels down from upstream. But Mint has started offering a Debian base recently called LMDE if you want to check it out.

As for whether Arch is bad for beginners. Kinda. It's a DIY distro, assuming you can follow tutorials and guides it's pretty straight forward, especially with the archinstall script. But if you're uncomfortable with a terminal install, you can try out EndeavourOS which features a full gui install and a few tweaks to make it easier on beginners.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I'm not unhappy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Mint attempts to reverse questionable changes made in Ubuntu, which makes it good again

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It depends. In my experience it’s less stable but has newer packages.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I switched a while go and haven’t regretted it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yes

  1. It has more up to date packages (while being reasonably stable), their implementation of gnome is essentially vanilla so its easier to build off of as a base (unless you like Ubuntus extensions and fonts but tbh you can always add those yourself)
  2. Their KDE edition (starting from the recently released version 42) is no longer a spin so it should get as much attention as Workstation (Gnome)
  3. DNF is arguably much better than APT and especially with the new improvements its seen
  4. Fedora handles snapshots much better (btrfs)
  5. There are more extensive third party repos on fedora
  6. They dont shove snaps down your throat
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I currently main Fedora. It is reasonably stable and reasonably cutting-edge. I'm happy about it.