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I was thinking of switching from Ubuntu to Fedora because of the praise it got for being more up to date and having great default settings as a desktop distro.
What kind of problems did you run into? Can you give examples? I'd like to know before making the switch.
Basically, on Fedora you are a guinea pig for whatever new tech Red Hat (now IBM) is considering rolling out. It is a well polished distro and I have set it up on several people's computers, but they will be among the first to just foist a whole new replacement subsystem on their users. Can be interesting if you like experimental shit (and what comes to Fedora tends to stick around [i.e. PulseAudio, systemd], unlike a lot of the shit Canonical has tried to introduce [i.e. Upstart, Mir]). Can be a major headache if you are trying to use something which requires iptables and they have jumped into nftables with both feet (for instance).
One of the problems, somebody else said lol they have some ideas and updates to new versions that work better for corporate area but for desktop users it gets slower and too bloated for a normal desktop user (or at least for me, was my experience), if for you, the problems that I say below is not a big deal for you when you try Fedora, you can use it, if it doesn't affect you Somebody would say that Ubuntu is a lot corporate, but if you remove snaps is really okay, on my experience... and there is Debian in anycase lmao
I had more problems with systemd on Fedora than other distros, despite on Ubuntu mostly you will have this issue with snaps only, this was mostly issues here, maybe for you would be different (I tried to install last month but systemd was crashing at boot and returned to my regular debian setup)
I had the kernel issue, on ubuntu it's a bit better to handle previous versions, sometimes an update doesn't work well, bad performance and you don't have so many options of rollback like Ubuntu (Debian too gives more options); and the praise, it's normal because it works well for specific users mostly pure gnome users that works well on any version and don't have issues from like I said before and don't really care losing a bit of performance if we have more "features" that others don't really use so much