Which Linux should you use ubuntu or fedora?
Which soda should you drink, Sprite or 7-Up?
Depends on your needs.
Ubuntu has better support out of the box for most things while fedora feels simpler to use. Entirely personal preference though
7-up is clearly better, this is a terrible analogy.
but yeah @Friddkk just pick one it hardly matters, they’re all equally busted at certain points, just for different stuff
I should use Debian, because I know it and like it better than others. You should use whatever one you like better. If you don’t know which one you like better, you should try out several of them to find out.
Nearly every distro has a LiveCD you can test without installing, and they’re freely available to download and use. Try on a few and see which ones fit you best.
if you do this, put /home on its own partition, so that you can swap in place without losing your data
Ubuntu minimal install is my recommend for new linuxers.
Both, and decide for yourself. Easy as flashing a usb drive.
I use Ubuntu. What little OEM support goes to linux, usually goes toward Ubuntu.
Depends on your hardware. Fedora has broken itself via software updates 2-3 times on my systems in the past year.
Ubuntu has not done that to me.
Its a mixed bag with just about any distro. Find one that fits your needs and stick with it. If your needs change then move onto something else
Yeah, i do have to say though that Debian and its derivatives like Ubuntu have been pretty reliable for me since 1998
(I started with Slackware 3.1, then ran Debian Bo for a while, then ran Redhat (before RHEL/CentOS) 5.x and 6.x for a little bit and then went back to plain Debian until Ubuntu started getting commercial support.
I ordered a bunch of Linux CDROMs from ftp.cdrom.com after downloading Slackware floppy disk sets over 28.8k modem and finding that disk N of 15 for X was fucked and having to start over, etc…
Mmmmm…MINT
Depends on what you want to do and what annoys you.
Ubuntu has two kind of releases: LTS (Long-Term Support) and non-LTS. LTS gets a 5-year support lifetime. With exceptions, applications aren’t upgraded to any new releases during that lifetime.
Every 6 months there’s a non-LTS release with a lifetime of 9 months. Newer stuff, newer risks. Maybe.
You can upgrade from release to release. Replacing core packages may annoy the updater.
Fedora has a new release every 6 months, and supports that release and the one before it for 12 months. So, if you want to always be on the latest Fedora release, you will upgrade every 6 months. If you lag behind a release, you push that to a year.
Fedora releases in sync with Gnome releases, which is its focal point GUI. Others are available via support within the Fedora community.
Typically lots and lots of updates in Fedora, including kernels. That means more change than an Ubuntu LTS release, and change increases the risk of something going wrong.
If you want a Linux machine that starts on a good base and sees relatively little change, go Ubuntu LTS. If you want a Linux machine that starts on a good base and you want the updates that arrive during a release’s lifetime and can handle the more frequent move to the new release, go with Fedora.
What kind of breakage?
Bruh coke or pepsi.
FreeBSD or OpenBSD.
Remember, theres always RC Cola.
Fedora