I Almost DITCHED my UBUNTU for FEDORA! Why?

49 thoughts on “I Almost DITCHED my UBUNTU for FEDORA! Why?”

• Ubuntu is a good distro and Ubuntu 16.04 was the 1st distro i ever tried but i don't like that these days Canoncical are trying to force Snaps down our throats. These days i much prefer to use Debian and Fedora.

• cara… abandonar isso Ubuntu logo!! 🙂 really man.. I just cant use Ubuntu. I have tried and tried to like it, along with Gnome also but I just cant. I liked fedora, but then decided I need to test other distros, so yeap.. tried arch for… like a whole friggen day… really.. nope not for me, Arch.. seems OK, I like Kali and even more the Kali purple which is IMO the best arch distro and almost decided to use it as my daily driver.. if it wasnt for everyone saying DONT… I would probably be using Kali now.. tried centos and other redhat based distros, tried Garuda, tried many many distros.. but eventually I went back to Fedora with KDE plasma… customised to be something with the best parts of MacOS and Windows, and of course KDE features.. for me Fedora with KDE can do anything and everything I need. umm except run adobe photoshop and MS outlook 🙁

• Ubuntu sucks. I've been using Fedora KDE for a while and is been the only Linux distro that has been a completely smooth experience.

• The best Ubuntu wallpaper is still 8.04's. Just wow. Back then I also found a blue variant which I used on a Xubuntu installation I had

• im using ubuntu os and i want to move to fedora but how i couldnt see a video that helped

• Does anyone use Fedora KDE? 🙂 Fedora Gnome is great expiriance, but Fedora KDE is pain IMPE…

• What are your objections to Arch?

• I'm using Fedora but with KDE. I also love GNOME and its workflow as long as I make a few tweaks by adding a couple of extensions. However, KDE works better on my hardware and I do not need to depend on extensions getting updated to support the latest GNOME release which sometimes takes too long.

• I'd be willing to give fedora a try once it changes its name. Otherwise I'd be sticking to Arch

• so you almost do the sam what linus do in his Pop!OS in that challenge lol

• Fedora is god

• This is such a comedy of errors that it should be the title 🙂

• This happen to me too like two years ago. It removed KDE Plasma if i remember correctly, regardless it removed important packages while i was tryint to install or uninstall ( dun 'member ) an app that was completely unrelated.

• Do it

• I recently switched to openSUSE, which by default uses BTRFS and gives you snapshots rollback out of the shelf. Tux bless them. In just a few weeks I have used them three times. Sure, two of them it was me who fucked up the installation and the other was a bad Plasma update (although at the moment I thought it was installing Snap), all of them pretty light screws that could have been fixed no problem, but just trying a handfull of snapshots, running `sudo snapper rollback` on the lastest healthy one, rebooting and forgetting about it is awesome.

• wow, your life(scripts) is so much OS-dependent that you cannot even switch between Linux distros?!

• The moral of the story: learn to read the consequences before performing any action instead of blaming the distro

• Any GNU/Linux system can be fixed. If you reinstalled it is because you clearly have no idea what you are doing. Just use Windows. GNU/Linux is not for mediocre people.

• This is why I mainly use nixos, and arch as backup in case something is annoying to do in nix. Reproducibility is priceless.

• Lol, what a story. I share some similar stories with linux

• Apt sucks ass, it's the worst package manager I've ever used and it keeps causing issues like this, I think it's probably the single biggest reason behind most people thinking Linux is hard or confusing or unstable. Fedora's dnf and Arch's pacman work so much better. Also, for the love of God don't install packages from the browser like this, every single time I've seen someone do it, it blows up their system xD

• I really do not understand why people do not try Debian.
  I am using Debian for 20? years and all excursions into hyped other distributions ended in a return to Debian.

• Fedora has been working well but there's a few issues that mostly have to do with nvidia drivers.
  Some weird problem that breaks appimages…after reinstall haven't reproduced the problem.
  Also absolutely hate dolphin file manager…

• I understand better the issues with debs now.

• Be it GNOME or KDE, Fedora is the most suitable base for both of them. Both DEs get their updates faster in Fedora. So if I have to use KDE I will use Fedora KDE first.

• Whatever 😒

• I am really hating the way, they are enforcing snaps. Firefox(snap) is installed by default. If you reinstall the simple version of firefox through terminal, it will again install only the snap version. It infuriates me.

• You pronounced Ubuntu correctly 😀

• fedora is not open source, not an option at all

• Fedora and Arch are my go to distros, even if when giving advices to linux newbies I always talk about ubuntu and mint because most of the problems newbies are gonna google will include solutions assuming they're using apt as a package manager and I know many would get confused to the point of trying to "pacman -S apt" or "dnf install apt".

  That said, I really think anyone who (already, not is trying to!) daily drives linux should try a few distros because they could appreciate the differences behind the DE.

  I really prefer both Fedora and Arch over Ubuntu. Both have a great official documentation. Fedora just works and is actually great for beginners as well. Arch, even if not the easiest of the experiences, is a great compromise between minimalism and being actually easy to maintain and always does its best to keep it simple. Also, memes aside, I find Arch's community to be one of the most ready to help. You should really try both for a few days even inside VMs.

  Beside the distro sermon… don't you use any tool like Timeshift to contain the damage in these cases?

• So, you almost pulled a Linus Sebastian using APT

• You just need a VM (kvm with virt-manager is good), sounds like too much hassle and takes extra storage, but that way you can test new things without breaking your main install.

• I really like fedora, I switched to it recently and it hasn't given me a problem yet.
  ubuntu for some reason just stopped being usable. I'd try to install programs that are only 1 version behind and they'd throw warnings and never install. fedora also feels like a slightly tweaked vanilla experience, it feels like an empty platter I can shape to be my desktop instead of the other way around.

• When I first started with Linux I originally used Red Hat 8 and I think Red Hat 9 (I think they had announced Fedora Core, but I didn't end up using it) and I loved the system, it was great to use. Then around Midway through my studies Ubuntu was released (and they were passing around pretty CDs at my course), and when I installed and started using it, I never looked back. I did dabble with base Debian for a bit but for the most part I generally had some subset of Ubuntu for both the server and the Desktop even though my primary rig is always Windows.
  Then recently Ubuntu started changing, first came the introduction of snap (which always ran kind of poorly for me, and I don't like the closed nature of the store) which is now becoming the default, then they stopped innovating and just releasing updates which meant that I was never enthusiastic to get the latest release. Since about 2 years ago I have used Linux Mint as my primary Linux OS which has been really helpful in moving myself from Ubuntu (I think the last one I used was 18.10), and I never looked back. Recently Nick from "The Linux Experiment" did a video on how far Fedora has come and how smooth it is, and with you doing a video on Gnome I thought i'd give it a try and oh my god how polished and nice is Gnome 41 (and i'm patiently excited for Gnome 42) and Fedora, the distribution just works super well and paired with their Flatpak support I get the best of all worlds and find that the distribution will likely be my main squeeze for Linux going forward.
  I do still like KDE and so I have a separate laptop with OpenSUSE and Plasma on it which works well, but it has a lot of quirks that Fedora just doesn't have (luckly OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has a recent version of KDE) so I much prefer how smooth Fedora is. I have also moved all of my server needs away from Ubuntu and off to Debian because it's just so heavy and unnecessary.

• Just curious what's wrong with Arch?

• Do it!!! Fedora gang, WYA?

• I was wondering why your system hadn't recovered from just removing the bad package, now I understand! Wow! Talk about timing! Glad you were able to get it fixed

• I Still Use Ubuntu Server…

• I use BTRFS and have Snapper configured to make automated timeline snapshots. I also have a dnf plugin that makes a pre and post snapshot whenever I update. You can see exactly what files were changed and roll back in seconds.

• Time to start using btrfs and snapshots…. Which btw, fedora now supports be default. When will Ubuntu do this??

• I recommend Manjaro Linux. It's stable and up-to-date.

• come join fedora, it's where the cool kids play

• this is why i switch to manjaro

• Yes, do as I say!

• Yes do as I say!

• I switched from Ubuntu to NixOS, packaging is much better , hard to brick system as you can rollback, config are declarative

• Ubuntu was fine but nowdays is broken.
  I use Neon still because of KDE, but I swear at every major upgrade.
  I'm not sure Fedora nor Arch are the answer, quite frankly I don't find the BSD reliability in any Linux distro.

• I went from Fedora to Ubuntu 21.10. 21.10 have to many bugs. Not a daily driver. Switched today back to Fedora. Stable and fast. No headache like Ubuntu. Anyway thanks for the clip.

• didn't linus go through the same thing in pop_os?

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