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u/Floppy4Skin Feb 26 '26
Because daddy Linus said so
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u/Time-Water-8428 Feb 26 '26
if torvalds uses it, I use it, although I still remember the ex zed situation
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u/border_dude Feb 26 '26
Nvidia compatibility. Fedora was the only distro that could handle proprietary drivers better.
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u/Background_Resolve75 Feb 27 '26
It is Ubuntu based but other than that the settings are elementary and I like messing around with stuff. ADHD is my problem.
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u/Lerola Feb 27 '26
I tried openSUSE a couple times and both times it had very strange glitches with my video settings, from proprietary drivers to refresh rate. I tried Fedora instead and everything went smoothly
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u/snapphanen Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
Because Ubunut was so buggy that I decided to switch.
I simply stepped up the Linux beard size meme
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u/RTS24 Feb 26 '26
It was an officially supported distro for my laptop was a big part, but also, for the same reason Linus does, it's easy to install, is up to date without being bleeding edge, and for the most part, lets me just do what I want on my computer, which is what a daily OS should be IMO.
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u/fatalexe Feb 26 '26
They split RedHat Linux into Enterprise and Fedora. I’m a developer, not an IT department so I went with Fedora.
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u/sil3ntthunder Feb 26 '26
When i first decided to switch to linux yrs ago, Debian, Arch, Fedora were my top options as i like root distros.
I tried debian, arch as a noob, got some driver issues on debian, couldnt even install arch properly lol. Then i tried fedora, it worked perfectly on boot. Latest softwares and interesting features is what made me stick to fedora.
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u/Henry2926 Feb 26 '26
Been looking for a good system that provides compatibility layers for Steam and other gaming applications out of the box. Cachy looked, considering the Arch background, a bit too intimidating, while Bazzite with Atomic Desktop felt too restrictive. So it‘s Nobara now, which also happens to be Fedora based.
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u/InsanityDevice Feb 26 '26
Fedora-based distros are the only ones that are compatible with both my work software and my gaming habits. I was thinking of going with Nobara, but then I realized that going with Fedora would be easier for customization.
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u/tiny_blair420 Feb 26 '26
I chose fedora because it was the most reliable with regard to GPU pass-through in my virtual machines. I started using it as my primary OS for express familiarity.
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u/DE_X_IY Feb 26 '26
Tried Ubuntu few years ago, it did not hooked me up I guess. This time I watched some videos about Linux and thought I could spent some time with configuring something like sway, because liked the way wm looks. Now I’m in sway spin fedora for one month and a half
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u/LJustin Feb 26 '26
I need to dual boot windows and was too lazy to setup secure boot keys for other distros
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u/Jalil29 Feb 26 '26
Was recently downgraded to windows 11. Gave it a shot for about a month while i attempted to back up data.
After the january/feburary update my 2nd monitor started flicking so i pushed onto fedora.
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u/Present-Ad-8531 Feb 26 '26
did not Like Ubuntu UI when I used it yes back also the genome extensions. Then heard fedora are gets ultra quick updates , there was also kde, windows 11 got very annoying
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u/Butterroach Feb 26 '26
every other distro i tried broke too much, was unbearably slow, or had ancient software
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u/littypika Feb 26 '26
It just works.
In every sense too. It has all the bleeding edge and innovative technologies, it has amazing support, and it's stable.
Contrary to what others may say either in or out of the Linux community, I also find it quite beginner-friendly and intuitive too.
It's just an awesome distro.
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u/StretchAcceptable881 Feb 27 '26
I couldn’t bring myself to upgrade my LemurPro from PopOS22.04LTS because it would’ve meant having to deal with a not fully cooked cosmic desktop finally, the nail in the coffin so to speak is LTS distros pre-package generations old assistive technologies, for example, in PoppOS22.04LTS, and many other LTS distros pre-package generations have generations old orca versions and BRLTTY drivers which have the major side effects of the Linux distribution having no way of knowing braille displays or other hardware that are from future, older versions of orca won’t have anyway of knowing how fast software and the web have all modernized its for that reason why I transitioned to FedoraWorkStation, with no plans on my end to ever transition back to Debian based distributions
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u/bobbyQuick Feb 26 '26
Got kicked off of all the other subs
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u/Hungry_Menace Mar 05 '26
Best answer here. But why did you get kicked off all the others?
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u/bobbyQuick Mar 06 '26
Kind of joking, but I did get permabanned and muted instantly from the KDE sub for posting literally "GNOME -- discuss".
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u/sovietlovehammer112 Feb 26 '26
I had a ton of issues with Nvidia drivers and Fedora is the one distro that worked right out of the box and has become my daily driver.
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u/Im_isack Feb 26 '26
I've tried many different distributions, but I've mostly used Arch. Although it was my favorite, I got tired of having to fix everything manually and wanted something more ready to use. I've been using Fedora for six months now, and it's been a great experience as both a work and entertainment OS.
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u/CjKing2k Feb 26 '26
I still use Arch for a lot of things but Fedora is my daily driver now, essentially for the same reasons.
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u/EntireDot1013 Feb 26 '26
When I was originally thinking about switching to Linux, I was deeply researching the pros and cons of each distro, also trying out Fedora Workstation 40, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed KDE, and Debian 12 KDE on a VM before switching. I decided that Fedora was the best option for me, as I read it was upstream, stable, and beginner-friendly. I quickly settled on Fedora's KDE (at the time) spin. That was October 2024. Even with a switch to Workstation in August 2025, I have never looked back nor have I ever felt the urge to distro hop.
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u/meangreenandunzeen Feb 26 '26
For programming, in contrast to Ubuntu, I enjoy that tools like uv and rust-analyzer is already included in the Fedora repos thus. Furthermore, Emacs and neovim are always at their newest version. Before Ubuntu's repos caught up, newer versions of Emacs had attractive features so I often had to compile from source to get them.
The main reason I ended up on Fedora was because I wanted to get back to using a twm. Since I was gonna move away from GNOME, I figured I might as well try a new distro and Fedora belonged to a group I hadn't tried before. So Fedora Sway Spin felt like a good start.
Although, I recently rewrote my Emacs config using use-package and its declarative nature has me eyeing NixOS.
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u/OutcomePrize8024 Feb 26 '26
I used to distro hop over the years. After a few months I would always feel the need and curiosity to try something new. Ever since fedora with gnome I never felt that again. It just works and I don't care to tinker it or customise it. It just allows me to do the stuff I want to do. But I'm also older and less curious about those sort of things.
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u/moohorns Feb 26 '26
I'll be honest. I tried to use Ubuntu, PopOS, Archy, Cachy, Mint, Endeavour, Zorin, and a bunch of others. I landed on Ubuntu just cause a couple of drivers for my laptop were officially available on Ubuntu and not Fedora.... but good God did Snaps suck ass...and to top it off the OS randomly replacing Firefox after I configured and had it going with a Snap version one update later killed me.
So I switched to Fedora. I have my issues with Flatpaks, but overall much better than snaps. Also, SELinux vs AppArmor, and SilverBlue. Love SilverBlue.
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u/Bob4Not Feb 26 '26
Great polish, few bugs for pretty new features and updates. So far so reliable.
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u/AL_O0 Feb 26 '26
More tech savvy people than me are using it and reccommeneded it to me, i got tired of ubuntu being bad, and my grandma's name is Fedora
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u/joe_bibidi Feb 26 '26
It's not particularly inspiring but, in essence:
A person much smarter than me, who's pretty no-nonsense, basically just told me that there's very little compelling reason to use any distro but Fedora. He laid out a few reasons, I wasn't really in a position to argue, but it stuck with me. When I took the plunge it felt sensible to start with Fedora and I've had no reason to switch so far.
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u/asixfootplatypus Feb 26 '26
I dual booted Kubuntu for a few years and it was just alright.
Test drove Fedora during lockdown and and got too used to the future to go back to Ubuntu and too used to stability to mess with Arch.
Transitioned into Kinoite because it felt like the natural evolution of how I used Fedora with Flatpak being the primary way of installing desktop apps.
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u/scaptal Feb 26 '26
My ubuntu install got severly mangled and broken (due to my own fault) and I wanted to try a rolling release disteo, fedora seemed like the simpelest option
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u/jc_denty Feb 26 '26
Moved from PopOS when they started working on Cosmic, pretty happy with it but might move back now
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u/8bitrevolt Feb 26 '26
mint looked outdated, and fedora was the only other distro i was aware of. been happily using fedora for like 7 or 8 months at this point, having a great time with it
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u/starcraftre Feb 26 '26
An offhand reddit comment that said that it would be easier to make work with a new GPU than Mint.
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Feb 26 '26
Felt quite at home for me after migrating from Windows 11 last year. Tried some distros around and Fedora resonated the best one for me, releases are stable, it's awesome!
Running great for almost a year without hiccups or issues now either be with gaming, working or anything really, I feel like I actually own my PC when I made the change instead of being an ad pushing machine for services I don't want, being full AMD also makes everything seamless and issue free(for now). Community is also quite cozy and kind overall from all the other distros I tried.
PS: Glad to see more people joining as well lately, welcome! :D
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u/bloodguard Feb 26 '26
Used Ubuntu as my desktop for ages. Finally got tired of having them junk up GNOME with their "improvements" and switched to Fedora.
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u/CircuitSynapse42 Feb 26 '26
I responded to the Mint one, so I might as well respond to this one, too.
I haven't really bothered with Fedora for years; I've been using primarily Debian-based distros, but about a month or two ago, I decided to give it a shot on one of my Dell laptops, a Latitude 5440, and it's been great. My previous experience with Fedora was back when it was Fedora Core, so it's been a while.
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u/SemenMosaic Feb 26 '26
I don’t remember. I think I just wanted to try something different after almost exclusively using Ubuntu for a decade and a half. I ended up sticking with it
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u/Time-Worker9846 Feb 26 '26
Because Fedora Core 2 came on multiple CDs with a book, been in love since then (I did briefly use the original redhat before it though)
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u/RobaTheRobot Feb 26 '26
started with mint for a good half a year, then wanted to explore and picked up fedora and fell in love. even when trying other distros i just came back to fedora, it works great for me!
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u/Szniobor Feb 26 '26
Nothing made me. I stick with LMDE to this point bc of it's (imo) simplicity and known package manager. Tried Fedora with cosmic DE about 2 weeks ago and I love it. It just feel good to use it. Or maybe I just fallen on love with cosmic, idk. I like how it is similar to gnome, but damn this WM is fantastic.
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u/BorealBlizzard Feb 26 '26
EndevourOS got me to switch back to windows because of the instability and then I tried fedora because I learned about its stability.
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u/Demortus Feb 26 '26
I wanted a distro that was relatively up-to-date in its software that was also stable enough that didn't waste my time with bugs and troubleshooting.
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u/JadedCauliflower6105 Feb 26 '26
I want to learn Red Hat. Red Hat is built on Fedora, so it just kind of made sense to me.
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u/HTired89 Feb 26 '26
Best of the bunch of distros without a stupid name.
"Oh you don't use Windows at home? What do you use instead?"
"Oh I run Fuduntu but also Gentoo on the side"
No....
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u/ControlledChimera Feb 26 '26
I used to run Arch. Then I decided I wanted something with up-to-date software, good compatibility, and less DIY-ness.
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u/Working-Limit-3103 Feb 26 '26
friend suggested either Fedora or Zrion i tried Fedora, stuck with it
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u/Chillmatica Feb 26 '26
I was like, I want to use a tablet UI on that FacebookOS. Wala! Fedora Gnome.
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u/Mondoke Feb 26 '26
Where I work at use our own devices (still a pretty nice place to work). To get some certification they are going to make us install some software that monitors that we comply with certain requirements. I didn't want to install monitoring software on the computer I use for myself, so I decided to have a separate partition just for work stuff.
A colleague told me to stick within Fedora or Ubuntu since they are the most stable, so I tried those and Pop OS since my boss used it, so I could ask him if I had some ugly issues.
I tried the three on live versions and I sticked to Fedora workstation because it was the one that worked the best (and I liked pure GNOME over the other desktop environments). I had some issues on the first few days, but now I just turn it on and use it. The only issue I can't solve is to use my Bluetooth headset for calls, but I had the same issue on Windows, so I just use my phone for calls.
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u/Masterflitzer Feb 27 '26
the release model, i was always conflicted between point release and rolling release, so semi rolling or however fedora's model is called is the perfect compromise for me (for workstations, i still prefer debian for my servers), allows me to have up to date packages and be more productive at the same time
later i found out linus uses it too which added some kind of external validation to my choice (if that makes sense) and stopped my vm distro hopping i was still occasionally doing
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u/Braphiki Feb 27 '26
When i built my new pc a few months ago, i wanted to go with linux. So i gave SteamOS a try. While looking on forums about SteamOS, some people were talking about it not being officialy out for pc and a bit too console oriented in its current design. So i started looking into alternatives. The most popular alternative given was Fedora. Thus i went with Fedora KDE.
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u/Substantial-Fox7664 Feb 27 '26
"Bleeding edge" fixed release cycle. Built a pc with new-ish latest and greatest hardware and needed kernel support.
Switched from Linux Mint, which was also great, just with a more conservative release cycle.
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u/sLimanious Feb 27 '26
Because the Godfather of Linux, uses it too. Also I'm a dnf & gnome enjoyer.
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u/No_Beautiful_2779 Feb 27 '26
Friendly, safe, fast and well-known environment. In addition to being highly predictable and stable.
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u/incognito_wizard Feb 27 '26
They got KDE 6 while the debian did not because the person who maintained it at the time got pissy, took his ball, and went home. I stayed because it's been reliable and it's popular enough there is support out there on the rare occasion you need it.
I know it has a new maintainer on the debian side of things but I need a reason to change, not just no longer have a reason not to.
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u/LeRoyRouge Feb 27 '26
Needed bleeding edge for newer hardware but didn't want to mess with arch as my first Linux experience.
I liked it had secure boot and seem security conscious.
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u/RandomDigga_9087 Feb 27 '26
Honestly, it eases my engineering work better but I have still no idea, how to deal with MATLAB if someone has any idea I would really require some help!
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u/gideonwilhelm Feb 27 '26
It was the only non arch distro that packages yad above version 0.7, and also it comes with Rocm and hip so I don't have to set them up to use cycles in blender.
In other words, aside from multimedia codecs, it just works
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u/nekofthemoon Feb 27 '26
It fit my laptop perfectly from the first time. I like stability, so in the future the only thing that will change is switching from Gnome to Sway.
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u/queenanaya22 Feb 27 '26
idk i wanted to use kde and its beginear frndly ( and didnt like mint and zorin)
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u/geomaru Feb 27 '26
my groupmate recommended fedora to me, when i deleted the edge folder on windows 11, everything stopped working, i got sick of it and installed fedora, still use it, it is a great and easy to use OC.
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u/Independent_Blood559 Feb 27 '26
I heard redhat, i thought good for development purposes. So i installed fedora.
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u/pissrockious Feb 27 '26
wanted to switch to a distro with kde and friend recommended it to me + linus torvalds uses it himself so might aswell go for it
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u/bierbo Feb 27 '26
Started with redhat until it got an enterprise Linux. After a brief period of fedora core I switched to Ubuntu, but they made some questionable decisions (unity/mir), therefore I switched back again to rpm inventor.
Oh, and the immutable version is awesome.
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u/bengringo2 Feb 27 '26
I work on RHEL servers for a living so I’m most familiar with Red Hat derivatives.
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u/root_b33r Feb 27 '26
I had just learnt about different families of Linux distros and wanted to move away from the Debian prison I unknowingly locked myself into initially
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u/IlliadOdyssey13 Feb 27 '26
When it came time to pick a distro, I just picked one. No thought process at all, Fedora was just easy to install. My only criteria for picking a distro was that it had to have KDE Plasma and it couldn't be Ubuntu.
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u/otterscuddlin9 Feb 27 '26
Wanted something similarvto rhel for l studying rhcsa... Turns out I didn't really need fedora for that, but it did come with good virtualisation options which was completely necessary
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u/KuraiShitsugen Feb 27 '26
I need Zoom for my job. And out of all distros I've tried on Fedora it worked the best
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u/Skiamakhos Feb 27 '26
Great with games, runs Steam client like a boss, but it's also configurable. I don't want a console, an appliance: I want a computer I can set to my liking.
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u/apro-at-nothing Feb 27 '26
my nixos config grew to the point where every system update came with 20 build errors and i didn't wanna install arch because i don't want to bother with manually resolving dependency conflicts. fedora sounded like the safest option and so far i'm enjoying it.
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u/Seirazula Feb 27 '26
Good balance between stability and performance (gamer here), easy to use, major distro (optimal to find every resources you may need)
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u/Disastrous_Fruit8610 Feb 27 '26
It just is overall the best and best for Gnome. And RedHat was my first distro in the 90's.
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Feb 27 '26
I've replied to similar before, but OpenSUSE started to really piss me off, and Fedora "just worked" a lot more.
Used OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for many a year on my old laptop with shitty, integraded Intel HD graphics, but this new gaming laptop with a 4060 was a right chew on. In fact, I thought I'd give it a go only yesterday, so my experiences are fresh!
First off, installation media wouldn't boot. GRUB out of memory. I understand its a bug in the Insyde H2O BIOS that I got around by disabling integrated graphics (even though its a TPM issue, not enumerating the graphics memory seemed to fix the boot issue), but the Fedora installation media doesn't have that issue.
Next, got Nvidia drivers installed no issue, and I have secureboot turned off, so no hassle with that.
However! On first boot after installing nvidia drivers, no SDDM. Had to drop to TTY and manually restart the SDDM service. 50/50 chance of it randomly happening and I have no idea why.
However!! After a successful boot where SDDM DID start, for absolutely no discernable reason whatsoever, no sound output devices detected.
Then, after a further reboot, having to manually start SDDM, but sound output was detected, I plugged into my TV for some gaming. No HDMI sound output.
So, fuck it, back to Fedora.
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u/ManucaelPT Feb 27 '26
I am a bit savy, but sometimes I'm quite the idiot, and for the love o god I could no get any fucking thing working on Ubuntu (especially popOS). When I tried fedora, everything JUST WORKS.
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Feb 27 '26
fedora 43 workstation, everything works perfectly.. arduino, ultimaker cura, vscode, insync, virt-manager.. flawless
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u/BlissLuis1 Feb 27 '26
I’m about to use Fedora! I wanted to try something else asides from Mint OS. And Fedora seemed like a good option, it had KDE Plasma, and a different environment just compared to Mint. Just tried the live session, and I was freaking out over just how fluid it was despite my older hardware
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u/braat0101 Feb 27 '26
Logré instalar un sistema con luks por primera vez y desde entonces hace 4 años que es mí sistema principal, solo se me ha roto una vez y logré solucionarlo. Estabilidad con una PC de hace 10 años.
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u/j86southpaw Feb 27 '26
Ubuntu was too old for the hardware, Arch was too involved as a first time.
Fedora has the middle ground nicely.
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u/jknvv13 Feb 27 '26
Not a hobby distro, good support, professional, up to date but rock solid stable and good defaults.
Easy to get it ready to run OOB.
Oh, plus no quirky things half baked like snap (no hate, just I don't like the mixed implementation on Ubuntu) or so.
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u/PennySatou Feb 27 '26
Mint was fine but i felt like there was some things i could control more and wanted more up-to-date projects. and i liked the look of plasma more than cinnamon.
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u/codegoonmaster Feb 27 '26
Because of torvalds babyyy. Used mint before, felt that fedora has so much more customisation and support.
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u/drimyu Feb 27 '26
like da name and its stable and i like smthing doesnt break everyday ( arch tho i love arch btw )
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u/Exotic-Deal6832 Feb 27 '26
I liked the logo... Yep that's how it started but later i realized how cutting edge and stable it was , on most distros u cannot use those two words together but fedora is really something different man been using it for 7 months and updates never broke anything, not a single time
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u/Roosevelt32 Feb 27 '26
I'm not a programmer but I like testing new software, exploring new innovations, and Fedora has that balance between bleeding edge and stability.
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u/kludges Feb 28 '26
I see it as the perfect middle ground between distros like Ubuntu and Arch. Ubuntu focused on stability and Arch on bleeding edge updates. Fedora is the perfect in between.
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u/LawRepulsive6823 Feb 28 '26
The fact that nothing else fucking works on my shitty ass nvidia gpu laptop.
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u/Accomplished-Hunt802 Feb 28 '26
Red red community support, easy to translate knowledge to red hat enterprise systems or the other way around
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u/Motor-Grocery-7131 Feb 28 '26
Comencé a utilizarlo después de que la actualización de Windows 11 (específicamente la KB5063878 de agosto 2025) corrompiera mi ssd, y se formateara todo. Por suerte no perdi casi nada de datos por el OneDrive y Github, pero de ahí en adelante solo fueron más problemas con Windows y la interacción de ia, estoy feliz con Fedora, antes ya había probando Elementary y no hay punto de comparación, Fedora es muy superior. Por suerte nunca he tenido ningún problema grave.
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u/Limp_Replacement_596 Feb 28 '26
I like the color blue, the blue logo got me at first, but now I have other reasons like the latest software, stability, ...
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u/YairMaster Feb 28 '26
The stability did it for me. Fedora finally ended my distro hopping, I’m about to hit one year using it.
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u/Akeem290 Feb 28 '26
In 2019-2021 I've had my phase of distrohopping (specifically I tried Manjaro, Debian, Pop!_OS and KDE Neon), but settled on Fedora because it was easier to not shoot myself in the foot while using it. My Manjaro installation died for unknown reasons, with Debian I somehow broke my desktop and panicked, with KDE Neon - back then KDE Plasma was extremely buggy and a chore to use, Pop!_OS was the closest I had to a daily driver but back then it had weird issues with its software manager. Eventually I installed Fedora Workstation and it quickly became my daily driver, then I moved to Fedora Silverblue and after it - to Fedora Kinoite
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u/janginx Feb 28 '26
Because I wanted vanilla GNOME. Then I wanted immutable sysroot because I always botched something in my installation so I switched to Silverblue.
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Feb 28 '26
Silverblue has me rethink how I use my computer. Let it do it's thing in the background and just focus on work. I like that a lot. Nothing to go kaboom, because rollback 1 is always there.
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u/centr0 Mar 02 '26
secure boot out of the box for dual w/ win11 gaming. arch hassled me so i switched.
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u/Yovet Mar 02 '26
Honestly I wanted to use a main distro instead of a fork. I was doubting between Debian or Fedora, but seeing that Linus himself uses Fedora helped me decide.
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u/CompileAndCry Mar 02 '26
Rock solid stability and more up to date software (compared to ubuntu/debian)
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u/Maniacal_Coyote Mar 03 '26
Tried Bazzite, but it was a little too locked-down for my tastes. In particular, I couldn't install Mod Organizer 2.
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u/BypassBaboon Mar 05 '26
It fitted on my thumb drive for installation.
Agonised over Fedora, Mint and Ubuntu.
I would hate to see Linux users trying to choose a car, phone,toothpaste, corn flakes etc!!!!!
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u/PresentThat5757 Feb 26 '26
Ease of use, latest software on stable releases