Fast adoption of new technologies yet stable enough to be my daily driver at work.
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Iāve tried a few other distros and landed on it
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I always wanted to work for Red Hat ever since I got into technology. I applied there 52 times before I got my first interview and landed a role. It took abou 13 months. Since here, I have been so excited by the Open Source communities that are being built. But Fedora is so robust and amazing.
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Simply: I think it is the best Linux Desktop
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I used CachyOS and after the AUR incident i wanted to try something new, and here on Fedora KDE i manage to use gsync on my old 1060 which is nice
Welcome to everyone from the Red Hat team building excercise ?!? 
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I can completly agree to what you said about gnome. itās 2026 now and still as good
What was the āAUR incidentā?
Attackers adopted oprhan packages and put malware inside of them, those contained malicious npm and python dependencies which contained an infostealer. These packages were a dependency to other packages and thatās why it was widespread.
the kde implementation, i left kde neon for problems i had there
i used some time othe des like lxde and cinnamon but kde is my thing, that and the distro in general that is quite stable
Round 2ā¦
Love these kind of questions.
My intro with Linux really started back in 10th grade economics. I know you might find this hard to believe, but school was not my first priority 
and being that the class was in the computer room, I had even more reason not to pay attention.
It started with jailbreaking my iPod Touch through some random forum I found. From there I got into trying to work around the school restrictions and finding different ways to bypass the schoolās policies so I could get on Facebook. I found RDP before I even really knew what it was, and was blown away that I could access one computer from another. That turned into exhausting every possible way I could think of to get the schoolās Windows machines to talk to a completely different OS ā my Mac back at home, which was also my gateway to pirating all the movies and music I wanted.
You bet your bottom dollar my parents eventually got a letter in the mail warning them about the piracy. The funny part is I was learning how to work around network policies at school while still thinking private browsing was some magical cloak of invisibility at home.
Windows to Mac, Mac to Windows, whatever I could get working.
Having a Mac at home and Windows at school was probably my first real introduction to the idea that there was more than just Mac and Windows. RDP wasnāt quite going to work the way I wanted, so I ended up using VNC instead. Iād leave screen sharing enabled on my Mac at home and connect to it from the Windows machines at school.
Looking back, that was probably when I realized I was much more interested in figuring out how things worked than whatever I was actually supposed to be doing.
That back and forth eventually led me to Debian, and from there the distro slide began. Arch when I wanted to suffer, Debian as the safety net, and plenty of other stops along the way.
Containerization was always kind of the goal; I just didnāt have the vocabulary for it yet. I went from Docker to Kubernetes and Slurm, and now with AWS, containers have become pretty much second nature.
Iām a Pythonista to the core. Automation has always been a big part of it, but I really enjoy the math side too. Thereās something about taking a dataset that looks like complete gibberish and trying to find the classifier hiding in it that I find genuinely fun. Jupyter notebooks and venv became a pretty natural part of how I work.
Software has always been pretty situational for me. Iām usually trying to learn something or solve something, so Iāve never really had a single language or stack. Different problems, different primitives.
The last few years have moved my work heavily into cloud, training, and ETL pipelines, which has only pulled me further down that rabbit hole. I also enjoy building my own OSINT tooling for the same reason: I like finding signal in noise and seeing where a trail of data leads.
So when I eventually found Silverblue and started playing with Distrobox, it felt oddly familiar. It was a little like jailbreaking that iPod Touch all over again ā except this time I actually understood what I was trying to accomplish.
Iāve spent a lot of time feeling like I was on the outside of different communities, bouncing between them without really committing to any of them. Coming to Fedora has felt different. It feels like Iāve finally found a space that actually feels like community and that Iām not fighting to figure out how I can properly contribute, which is probably why Iām taking the time to introduce myself instead of just lurking in the background.
So, hello Fedora.
If thereās somewhere you think I should be looking, something I should be getting involved with, or just general advice for finding my way around the community, Iām all ears.
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I donāt remember exactly, but it was maybe 3-4 years ago when I started with Linux and SRE stuff. Thatās when I heard about Fedora from an instructor as one of the Linux distros available to use. I have used Windows, Ubuntu with Desktop environments (GNOME, KDE, Xfce), Linux Mint, and then I started using Fedora with KDE as desktop environment. Iām not deep into Linux stuff, but I liked Fedora with KDE and the way it runs is 
. I didnāt expect it to be this good. The way its website and documentation are maintained also feels like at least someone really cares about the user experience. So, I checked out its documentation to understand the contribution scope, and it looks like thereās a neat structure here. So I decided to get involved while being user of it.
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