From Ubuntu to Fedora or what distro?

tomordonez · 2017-04-26T15:39:25.000Z

I used Fedora a few years ago. Moved to the Mac. Moved to Ubuntu. Back to Mac. Back to Ubuntu. I might move back to Fedora. Any recommendations?

ch215 9 years ago |

After years of distro hopping, I settled with Elementary: https://elementary.io/

tomordonez 9 years ago | |

this looks very interesting and I like the screenshots but I wonder this is more for general use and not towards development use.

mabynogy 9 years ago |

Was on Fedora before. Debian is ok and better than Ubuntu IMHO.

tomordonez 9 years ago | |

What was your main reason from moving from Fedora to Debian. Is it the package manager or any other reason?

mabynogy 9 years ago | | |

At that time, Debian Tesing was more stable than a standart Fedora.

rfz 9 years ago |

What's been your reasoning for switching every time? Pick a distro, stick with it, and learn to customize it to your liking.

tomordonez 9 years ago | |

simplicity. used for web browsing, terminal and listen to music. light. I tried installing Debian. Half an hour later the install crashed :)

rfz 9 years ago | | |

That's odd. No insight as to what caused it?

Generally shouldn't be much of a difference you'd notice for those tasks other than the desktop environment.

tomordonez 9 years ago | | |

the install was taking about 30 min. It said something like 'software install' error. Continue. Error loop. On the other hand I tried Fedora and it installed in 5 min. no errors :) yeah you are right not much difference. Ubuntu Unity and in Fedora Gnome 3 look almost the same to me. Although I tried Gnome3 on Ubuntu before too.

pacuna 9 years ago |

I moved from Ubuntu to Fedora a couple of weeks ago (on a Macbook pro) and it's has been awesome so far.

tomordonez 9 years ago | |

I am trying Fedora on a VM. It looks similar to Ubuntu. Trying to get use to the package manager. What are a few things you like about Fedora after moving from Ubuntu.

pacuna 9 years ago | | |

I think they were mainly related to my machine. On Ubuntu my laptop was getting super hot all the time, even with extra tools and extra drivers installed. Also I was using Ubuntu with Gnome, and it wasn't so fluid. With Fedora, Gnome just works perfectly, the laptop doesn't get hot and the battery just lasts longer.