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Post #3366688

2026-06-21 15:34 UTC

Ive been using fedora, my first distro, for about 5 years. I’m about to switch because it just doesn’t do some things I want, or not without a ton of config. I got it because it came up as “best distro for coding” when I googled it, and I was just beginning to code. I can’t imagine its that much better than like Ubuntu though, which is what I think I’ll switch to. Meanwhile there’s several just complete and total roadblocks ive hit because of the distro. Kubernettes and Docker just doesn’t work for me. I was trying a teat install of CiviCRM and never got past the download. Recently, when trying to install Graphene on a new phone, Fedora in fastboot just refuses to recognize it. In the process of trying to work around this limitation, I somehow removed myself from the sudo su group, and fixing it has been a chore. Its like every time I want to do x, it isn’t supported. Coding and developing on it is fine, for my personal projects. If I wanna do anything more than run a script though, its been nothing but hardship. Its been a pretty good distro for me, but I have a dislike for extended config and sysadmin tasks and troubleshooting, and on my personal projects I keep hitting roadblocks over and over on Fedora. Open to other suggestions, but Ubuntu seems the most straightforward

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  • @Cethin@lemmy.zip 2026-06-22 22:23

    The thing with Fedora is they will not ship with anything that isn’t FOSS. This means some things will be missing, like video codex as an example. You can add whatever you need to it, but you’ll sometimes have a starting point that needs more things added than another distro would. Also, tutorials may not include Fedora directions. Personally, I’ve been using Garuda for a few years, and it’s been great. I used Fedora for a bit before and ditched it. Garuda is Arch-based, so Arch tutorials directions work, and you get all the benefits of Arch without the work. CachyOS should be similar. Personally, I don’t care for Ubuntu. I used it before Fedora and I preferred Fedora.

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