What brought you to fedora?

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Came because I couldnā€™t stop hopping around, stayed for the community.

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Iā€™ve been using Linux since one of the first versions of Ubuntu for my personal use. I didnā€™t want to try Fedora because of several myths, e.g., crappy package management, hard to get anything proprietary, e.g., media codecs, etc. Then Ubuntu started getting worse in terms of stability, snap appeared which in the begging was disaster and I didnā€™t like it. My next stop was Pop_OS! which was ā€œUbuntu done rightā€ for me. I really enjoyed for ~2-3 years until they decided to go for in-house DE - COSMIC. Have nothing against such decisions, but to me It looked like very capable company had chosen ā€œdo own thingā€ instead of making existing ones better by working upstream. Yes, I know that System76 tried to talk to GNOME project and were disappointed. But at the time to me it looked like the move was more against than for FOSS. And that was the time for me to try Fedora. And I was not disappointed :smiley: And I am till this day. I like it because it is stable, it is on the leading edge in terms of technology and SW. All myths holding me off Fedora have fallen. I can upgrade the distro for 3-4 major releases in a row without breaking my installations. The community - all of you - is awesome. Iā€™m gonna stay here for a while :smiley:

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True I had heard similar myths. Mainly that the support would be less good, which is true, but thats kinda the point?

We are too cool for an official Firefox RPM repo

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I started with Fedora ā€“ it was version 13, which I quickly upgraded to 14 ā€“ when I had a new laptop that wasnā€™t supported with Debian.

I still recommend Fedora for users with new hardware. Youā€™re getting new Linux kernels on a regular basis over the course of a release, and with those kernels come new drivers that generally make your new computer work better.

Iā€™ve been a Fedora user off and on ever since. I still run a lot of Debian (and some OpenBSD), but the quality, innovation and community of Fedora have me leaning on the projectā€™s offerings more and more.

Iā€™ve been running Silverblue for a couple of releases, and I appreciate and benefit from the technical excellence and the work of all the developers and users who contribute back to the community.

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Very new to Fedora, only been using it for a couple of months now. I started messing around with linux when Ubuntu came out and during college was forced to use opensuse. I think it was still SUSE then. Then ended up using Mint for a long time. A few years ago my boredom and general frustration with Mint made me distrohop like a madman. Arch wasā€¦ Arch. Great but not for me. Right before this I learned how to use Debian. Then that was really fun for a couple months, and then it got really boring. Still love Debian but it doesnā€™t keep me interested enough. Finally landed on Fedora. The community feels as friendly as Mintā€™s but more professional in a way. The help requests are a bit more, organized?
Currently using Cinnamon with XFCE on the side. For me, changing desktop environments has been the easiest on Fedora. I can switch from Cinnamon to Plasma and back, move to Gnome and back, etc and DNF keeps everything tidy and easy to read. It just feels better being here because if something is not working correctly, I know it will be fixed soon rather than waiting 6m to 2y to get a updated package (pithos is still only half functional on Ubuntu, Debian and Tumbleweed). RPMs always work for me, DEBs were a coin toss and gdebi was never reliable.
It really is the best compromise between Arch and Debian. Debian stability and Arch flexibility. It just works and works well. Happy to be here and look forward to contributing somehow in the future.

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I think the professionalism in fact, is a result that Fedora has a solid infrastructure because of the main sponsor. A lot of Users see just the negative side. But this is definitely positive, having the possibility to share toughs also with professionals being occupied full time and share knowledge.

In the other hand it is also impressive what the LM team has fulfilled with less money and man power.

Welcome to Fedora @s667f . This is a good attitude. A good start point you find here.

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I needed a replacement for Win10 OS on my ThinkPad X1 Carbon 5th Gen (which doesnā€™t support Win11). GNU/Linux was fine for what I do, as itā€™s mostly academic writing and access to web apps.

Settled on Fedora 40 KDE after trialling lots of various distros because Plasma 6.x handled 150-175% font scaling on my 2560x1440 14" screen better than any other mainstream distro. Itā€™s also been very stable and responsive.

Edit: Only hiccup Iā€™ve encountered so far is that I havenā€™t been able to get the Sierra Wireless EM7430 LTE WWAN working. The weird thing is that it worked once in Live USB mode, but never worked again (despite being functional in Win10).

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I had used Ubuntu and Debian for a while both on servers and secondary machines for a while (FreeBSD before that). I didnā€™t like the directions Canonical was taking Ubuntu and Snap and I wanted something a little bit more leading edge than Debian stable but not quite as bleeding edge as Arch or Debian sid.

I gave Fedora a try on a spare laptop when I was still using macOS as my primary OS and liked what I saw in the community, documentation and adjacency to Alma and Rocky (I had been testing those out as possible replacements for Ubuntu Server). I opted to go with the KDE spin after attempting to get GNOME to look and behave the way that I wanted it.

It also helped that Fedora is one of the two distros that Framework officially supports on the Framework Laptop 16 and runs really well on a ThinkPad T14 Gen 3. :raised_hands:t3: Currently 3 months into daily driving Fedora.

For servers, I still have some running Ubuntu, but phasing those out for Debian stable.

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Please feel free to create a new topic in the Ask Fedora section. Best you use the ā€œSierra Wireless EM7430 LTEā€ string included in your title. Do not forget to deliver a inxi -Fzxx as pre formatted text </> in your request.

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RHEL for backend and for my laptop Fedora was the logical step.

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Welcome to the community. :handshake:t4:

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I try many things to learn and to take advantage of all the benefits of the PC and Linux. I run a lot of commands. Since Iā€™m not a programmer, I donā€™t know the results of some commands. Thatā€™s why I have crashed linux distributions dozens of times. The worst distribution in this regard is ubuntu and its derivatives. It crashes a lot and it is not possible to come back. And it crashes very easily.

When I first started Linux it was 2011. I bought my first laptop and installed a Linux distribution as a second operating system. The first operating system was ubuntu, which was marketed with a lot of advertising as the best and most trouble-free OS for beginners. Unfortunately I only lasted 20 days. I deleted it. I installed other distributions. I tried many other Linux distributions. The only ones I didnā€™t try were fedora and archlinux. I tried to install archlinux in those years but I couldnā€™t install it. So I gave up on arch. In the end the only OS I didnā€™t try was fedora. After 2 years I stopped using linux because it was too impractical in those years.

6 months ago I discovered fedora, installed it, and for 6 months I havenā€™t tried anything. I entered hundreds of commands that would normally crash other linux distributions. But despite all that torture, I couldnā€™t crash it. Thatā€™s why fedora is now my main operating system.

It is also impossible to create a stable, useful, durable, efficient operating system without a company. Because a company provides organization, planning and motivation. In this way, the goal is achieved quickly and decisively, and dozens of employees take responsibility for the smooth running of the system. Distributions without responsibility are community distributions. Because without a salary, without a title, without a title, without a control mechanism, a perfect OS cannot be built.
Open source OSs are also in the most dangerous class in terms of data security. If everything is open, it is easy to find vulnerabilities. But if there is a company behind it, they have teams and auditors to check for vulnerabilities. They also have teams to close them quickly. Communities canā€™t do that because they donā€™t have enough motivation and organization and not enough manpower time. Audit is lacking. It is hard to find people looking for gaps. So the sine qua non for an open source OS is a company. It is not a foundation or a community.

Thatā€™s why I chose fedora.

Actually, I would use Redhat Enterprise WorkStation if I could get unlimited or 50 years of use with a one-time license and not have to pay for the license every year.

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We are a big community and a lot of users are not payed directly by the main sponsor. As Open Source is, a lot of users working together, independent of place and profession. If this network would not exist, open source would not be so popular as it is today.

In special there would miss a lot of Linux distributions, if Debian would not exist. Debian is since the beginning of Linux a leader, and never really has been a company (just as an example). It is a Community as we are. Even if we are not a 100% non profit community.

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I like Gnome and rpm packages.
And the Fedora community is very friendly.

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6 posts were split to a new topic: Questions about the RHEL developer license and stability

However letā€™s try to stay on topic.
What brought you to Fedora?

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I came from Linux Ubuntu. I used Ubuntu for like- a year and a half I think (from 2022-mid 2023) and decided I wanted to take things a step further so I decided to try Fedora (still currently using it).
I havenā€™t been using Linux for very long but I genuinely love how open source Linux in general is in comparison to Windows. Also, Fedora just has a better feel than Ubuntu and has better compatibility and isnā€™t as resource-intensive lol

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Hi Folks

what brought me to use Fedora 41 were the following three things:

  1. This is the OS that Linus Torvalds use, he is bad ass so if he uses this OS means something.

  2. I have been a Ubuntu user for quite some time which is only natural to move myself to the big boys stuff that is Fedora, for instance people dont keep playing R-Type Delta all the time eventually they move to the big stuff like R-Type Final 2 which is vastly superior and challenging.

  3. Jackie Chans movies sound better on Fedora 41 than on Ubuntu and Windows, no to mention that Retroarch just works way more fasterā€¦ so theres no much discussion onto why not being on Fedora.

Happy Holidays :smiley:

There were only like 5 distributions in 2003 that were worth using. Red Hat 9 was hitting EoL and Fedora Core 1 took over. Seemed like a natural progression. Fedora Core 1 was the first distribution where it felt polished to me.