Originally used Ubuntu alot and ended up liking kde design as it was similar to Windows. Started using fedora due to recommendation from privacyguides.org
Now slowly rolling to any clients that are running windows 10 and need the basics of browsing the Internet and casual file edit on libraoffice.
Started with FC3 when I first had a sysadmin job in a local hospital. Briefly switched to Gentoo for a while, but Fedora felt right to me. And it took a lot less time installing something when you donât have to compile everything 
Thatâs the good and bad of Gentoo I guess. Very different distros.
Oh man, the amount of times Iâve distro-hopped over the past few years is insane. Iâve used it all. Gentoo, Ubuntu, Arch, Void, Debian, Mint, even BSD! I donât know how, but Fedora just works perfect for me, and Iâve learned learned my lesson to not break stuff for fun⌠mostly
Ubuntu never worked for me. Arch worked too well until I had no time to spend configuring, and tweaking it. I had heard a lot of good things about Fedora, very stable, gets updated frequently enough to not become boring, access to flatpaks, rpms and a whole bunch of software, and something new to learn since this is my first time using Fedora.
I like Fedora because it strikes the balance between having newer packages like Arch and stability like Debian. I distro-hopped a lot in the past but nowadays I usually switch between many DEs and WMs. The only downside that I have with Fedora is that I have to install media codes manually, but it isnât a big of a deal.
Fedora works better with the hardware of my two PCs.
Before I had been using Ubuntu and derivatives and Debian, I got tired of all the problems and errors I was having so I moved to Fedora, adapting to Gnome in the process.
Fedora Workstation is also very polished and simple, looks more professional.
I would like to use Debian for its âindependenceâ but It takes too much effort and in the same time every time I try I get the impression of the half finished work of amateurs. Sorry Debian.
This is the price to be independent. Even with all this, it is amazing how many distributions came out of that project.
When I was in 9th grade, I was kinda a Debian person, but one year later I went all-in on FreeBSD which I used, and even committed to to for nearly a decade.
I bought a 12th Gen HP Spectre and while I had struggles with laptop FreeBSD for the post-Kaby Lake, I realized desktop BSD was no longer practical so I initially turned to openSUSE Tumbleweed having been tempted by it for about a year.
Tumbleweed had some stability issues Fedora didnât, combined with the uncertainty around SUSEâs ALP plan (as a server) at the time led me to switching to Fedora as a desktop and Rocky as a server.
Having a good GNOME experience also helps tremendously. I work at Microsoft (not on Windows or anything Linux-related) and even I can admit Fedoraâs out of the box experience beats Windows 11 by a long shot. Trust me, Windows has so many papercuts, people have gotten numb to our papercuts but not Linuxâs.
I used Ubuntu on and off since 6.06, used Windows up until 10, and switched primarily to Ubuntu for a while. FileZilla was outdated and I kept hearing about Fedora having more up-to-date software. I liked what I saw, and switched to it somewhere in Fedora 20s!
GNOME is my favorite DE and I like that Fedora has a clean mostly-upstream implementation.
Ubuntu Server was fine, but I also went to Fedora Server at some point for consistency. I liked the default folder config style for nginx and wasnât a fan of the sites-availables symlink thing, I felt like I knew I want a website enabled if I created the config. Fedora having more up-to-date software also made it more appealing, but most important was SELinux (I figure if Google uses it for Android it must be good). Itâs kind of annoying, but I greatly appreciate that itâs protective enough to be blocking stuff I just assumed previously was proper access.
I distro-hopped for a bit and also like openSUSE Tumbleweed; rolling-release is great!
My favorite niche distro was Solus, and Budgie was kind of cool. Some years ago I requested vsftpd to be added to the repo, and I think requested an updated default config. I later found that config to have a typo, but the change was already pushed to public repos. Knowing that I was able to widely affect others with a bad config was kind of wild! While I understand why probably nobody else would run vsftpd on Solus, Iâm also kind of surprised nobody or nothing else verified it; I guess it looked good-enough for human eyes, and I was fine with it too at first 
I was also a Windows user back in 2015-2016 beginning with Windows XP. Around 2020-2021 if I remembered correctly, I decided to use Linux alongside Windows for fun up until recently when I am frustrated with Windows 11.
I still use Windows in some cases but my old ThinkPad T420 is still running Fedora strong as ever.
I agree. Having this stock-like implementation and a small number of apps installed is easier for me to customise my setup.
Actually I think that is the price to not have a clear mission and a leadership. It is the same for the âlinux ecosystemâ as a whole. Too many resources spent in niche projects that go nowhere, to many wheels reinvented in the most dramatic ways. Then there is a big question I cannot answer. Why donât they just copy what works better? I mean, Whoever is responsible for Debian Gnome could just look at Fedoraâs implementation and copy it. Whoever is responsible for Debian KDE could copy, I donât know, Kubuntu. What is the point in being different and being worse? Then again, I would not offer desktop environments via âtaskselâ if the offering isnât the best possible, Instead I would focus on fewer things and make those the best, people who really need it can always put together âalternativesâ via APT. I cannot stand the âlegacy - amateurishâ aura around âlinuxâ. Once I tried Devuan XFCE and I was like a time machine in the '90s. Floppy disks.
Speaking of Windows, I started from Windows 3 when the desktop was a new idea and quit with Windows 7 because I had to replace my computer with the next Windows version. Around Windows XP I started to look at âlinuxâ as an alternative but I kept using Windows mostly for having it easy at work. Problem is I am the only âlinuxâ user in my circle so every time I must find workarounds to deal with other people using Windows or iThings. Last time I had a conference call with a lawyer and I forgot my Firefox doesnât allow video with Microsoft Teams, I should have prepared some Chrome/Chromium setup. If I say âlinuxâ to the lawyer I just look like the guy with tin foil on his head. On the other hand, all these years of practice as âsoloâ made me almost unstoppable, given that I have time to adjust.
Back in 2003, when Red Hat switched to RHEL, Fedora (Core) was an oibvious and logical choice for an easy to use and well designed distro with a good community.
Debian was still not as friendly as it is today (and I was a noob), Ubuntu was nonexisting, Suse was also pre-dating their openSUSE days (and super slow on my machine). So i grabbed 4 CDs of FC1 and that was it, basically.
I still think that the peak of Fedora was around FC 5, with a bit of a decline later on, reemerging now (since versions 3x).
I still do not really understand immutable releases and how that could work for me, so I am on a regular release.
In the past 20 years i first used Ubuntu for about 5 years since the 6.06 LTS release. I liked it a lot overall, but one thing i didnât always enjoy was that Ubuntu chose to customize the experience in ways i wouldnât always prefer myself. During this time i already heard about Fedora but i didnât get to try it because i was more familiar with the Debian ecosystem at the time.
I do remember visiting Thailand at some point and entering a hostel where a computer screen displayed the Fedora 7 wallpaper:
Itâs an iconic image that has stuck with me since.
Around 2011 i got a little fed up with Ubuntu making decisions for me and i installed Arch, which i then used for another 5 years or so. Arch is fun because it gives you a blank slate with full control over everything on your system, and the community is vibrant and very focused towards experimentation. There were a number of times however that my - and thousands of other usersâ systems - got wrecked badly by low-level issues due to for instance the switch to systemd and a few big glibc updates, so that was problematic when you needed to get stuff done.
Just when i reached a busier period in my life Microsoft announced their first WSL implementation and i decided to move back to Windows for a while and use WSL for my linux needs. It was quite nice because everything just workedâ˘, and for another 5 years or so this is what i used while the linux desktop experience slowly faded out of my memory.
Then over the last year or so i have quickly become quite annoyed by the choices that Microsoft has been making and is forcing on itâs users. Hardware requirements are being forced, always-online login accounts are being forced, telemetry is being forced, even advertisements in system screens are being forced. I started spending more and more time tweaking and removing these things but eventually came to a point where it started to feel silly and a waste of time.
So about 2 months ago the natural moment arrived to say goodbye to Windows and move back to linux, and as soon as i started thinking about it the Fedora 7 balloons popped up in my memory. Within minutes i had downloaded the Fedora writer and created a bootable USB-stick, the installation went flawless and here we are.
So far iâm very happy to be here. Fedora feels like a nice mix of the things i liked the most about the other systems i used. It is a smooth experience like Ubuntu but more vanilla and free, it has a semi-rolling approach which makes it almost as progressive as Arch without a lot of the manual work and possible systemic breakage. It has a helpful community that is a bit more focused on getting a reliably working system rather than a bells and whistles experience, which i prefer at this stage. And last but not least it has the support of several large professional organizations in the linux ecosphere like Red Hat and good relations with upstream developers, which gives it a stable foundation to work from.
Tips hat
Hmmmm. Is there a âWhat made you stay with Fedora?â thread? Itâs just as interesting, if not more interesting, to know.
Long story shortâŚ
As a visual basic then a .Net dev since school, I did play with âipcopâ as my first non windows machine
Then, I did add a distrib called âSME serverâ in my home lab which was based on centos
I went to âscientific linuxâ when I get a new server but upgrades to a new major release was a pain !
Then came âatomic hostâ for some years ⌠and now itâs âfedora CoreOSâ and up[dat|grad]es are so smooth !
Then, I did need a new laptop, and I bought a fedora slimbook 2 !
Now, My home lab is made with :
So, I went to Fedora thanks to a random choice from the beginning 
Iâd like to thanks, the great community, and in a more nominative way @dustymabe, @bgilbert and @jlebon for the time and resources they did give to me with FCOS dev !
This thread has been running so long, I donât remember if I responded to it before or not:
I started out with RedHat Linux 6 in the mid '90s. I then upgraded to 7 and then 8. I even got a copy of âRedhat Linux Unleashedâ for Christmas one year. When 9 came out there was a bunch of controversy around some kernel patches that Redhat included with it and sometime after that, Fedora was branched off.
By this time I had started using Debian and got quite comfortable with it. I tried out Fedora Core 1, 2, and 3 but it felt lacking to me at that time. Eventually I started using Ubuntu for a few years, then OpenSuse became my primary distro for several years. Occasionally Iâd give Fedora a try and it wasnât till 24 that it finally stuck. Since then itâs been my only distro and I often recommend it to friends who are wanting to get into Linux.
âWhat brought you to Fedora?â Good question and if you ask me to give an answer in a single sentence then my answer is, Microsoft brought me to Fedora and thank GOD they did.
I think, Fedora owe me a little bit of explanation though. I was a Windows user for my entire life starting from Windows 3.1. Everyone knows that Microsoft is trying to be a Mafia nowadays forcing user to buy hardware they donât need and trying to extort money in any way they see fit. So, to give Microsoft a finger (sorry, I couldnât find any other expression and mods please donât ban me), I have decided to migrate to Linux permanently. Once upon a time, may be 2-3 years ago, I installed Ubuntu, for once and I didnât like its look and still donât like it. So, I started my research and I found that Fedora is the most advanced cutting age OS among Linux distros with its fixed major update cycle, its compatibility and its vast community and itâs FREE. But I was scared of Redhat because it is for enterprises and not for regular users and I have to pay a hefty amount (in my currency standard) to get it. So, I gave Fedora a try and guess what, LOVE AT FIRST INSTALLATION. It was so easy. Just 3 to 4 clicks and you are done. Setup ⌠amazing⌠NO COMPARISON TO WINDOWS. It is far far better than Windows and NO COMPROMISE WITH PRIVACY. In Windows, either I had to use Rufus to make an headache-less ISO or I had to spend some time to disable all sorts of privacy invasive options in Windows and block several processes through third-party firewall (Windows Defender is a bogus, everybody knows). I think I donât have to explain this part regarding Fedora. Then as per my research, I installed KDE Plasma 6 and it blew my mind⌠completely clean bowled. Now I sometime become angry on me thinking why didnât I choose Fedora earlier?! If I did, then I would become more conversant with the system. But I am happy that I have taken the decision. Better late than never and this is my story of âWhat brought me to Fedoraâ. 
And now I am trying to convert my family, friends and clients to a Fedora-user,
10 posts were split to a new topic: Support period of Operationg Systems like Windows etc
I allowed me to create a separate topic for the support period of OS.