Why are you choosing Fedora over Mint or vice versa? What distro do you use and why?
After lots of distro-hopping, using arch for many years, I switched to Fedora and never looked back. I just want things to work, and fixing little issues gets boring really quickly, so I stopped using arch.
Exactly
mint is a really stable base, doesn’t make me fiddle with the shell if i don’t want to, just works out of the box, and has an installer that isn’t ass.
fedora is pretty stable too but they also make things harder for users rather than easier.
Can’t compare to Mint, but I’m happy with Fedora. I like it because:
- It’s very up to date but not bleeding edge.
- Flatpak support is great.
- Ships with vanilla Gnome.
I prefer Mint just because it’s what I’m used to. Otherwise both are pretty solid distros.
I like Mint. I’ve been a Linux user for a long time, and Mint has so many little refinements and doesn’t get in my way - of course a lot of that is Cinnamon, but hey, they 're the originators of that too. Plus I’m used to apt at this point. I also find it easy to customize the way I like (nothing too crazy, just a bit): https://imgur.com/a/wPxLPkb
fedora works like a clock and adopts new tech first in the industry
mint feels like using windows 7 in 2023 - unreliable and dated
I’ve been using Pop_OS for the last several years (both work and home machines). I just want something that I can install my IDEs and Steam on with a few clicks. I spend enough time building containers and managing services at work, don’t want to put in more effort at home. If I was more of a hobbyist, I’d probably dive into something arch based.
Ive been on Manjaro for a little over a year and, aside from seeming like a second class environment to other Linux systems, I’m really enjoying it
I tried Fedora this year and really don’t like it. I’m sticking to arch/arch-based : the learning curve is steep but onse you get used to it it’s really efficient.
What things do you not like about fedora?
The fact that it is difficult to personalize, firstly. Coming from Plasma and before that Zorin, I find it hard to change the look and feel of the OS.
Then there is the package manager. TBH, after having the Pacman/AUR combo, nothing ever comes close to it in terms of simplicity.
Plus I don’t know but I find it bloated and laggy. But then again, maybe it’s just me. That’s the beautiful thing about GNU/Linux, it’s that yog can choose the distro that fits your needs.
+1 for Fedora. It’s very stable even with very fresh packages, I’ve been on the same installation for years without a hitch.
I still recommend Mint for absolute beginners tho.
I prefer Mint just for ease-of-use, really. I’m not a new user, by any means, and over the years I’ve bounced between Red Hat, openSUSE, Ubuntu, and a small handful of others that escape me at the moment. But I’m also not a power user.
With Mint, I don’t have to tweak things, really. I can install and just go about doing what I want to do. As a bonus, guests aren’t left scratching their heads as much if they sit down at my computer to browse the web or pull up a video. It’s Windows-ish enough where they can muddle their way through with minimal issue.
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I like the idea of immutable systems. They allow you to rollback updates/package installs, they break less often and it keeps the system away from the apps.
I’ve never had an issue with it since I started to use it and I will probably never look back.
If you like immutable systems, you might want to check out Fedora Kinoite if you haven’t already.
I used kinoite before switching to uBlue Bluefin and it’s what made me like immutable systems a lot.
I switched to it because I wanted to try it out, mainly because of the ubuntu-like desktop experience
On Kinoite now and loving it, my next planned direction is ublue, because I really want to go the cloud native desktop route. I might even try and see if I can get my desktop stuff into a separate container running ontop of minimal coreos style system. Then building a new system, attach to new tty, and switching to see if I like it, will be my default tinkering path. Basically extend the toolbox concept to take care of the gui desktop space too.
I’m personally still loving Regolith Desktop on top of Ubuntu/Debian.
I currently use Fedora Silverblue, mainly because of the easy rollback, and because it makes package management easier. I like having a default base to add and remove from (and being able to easily rebase onto a different spin). That said, regular Fedora and Mint are both solid distros.
Personally I think its mostly a matter of preference and doesn’t matter all that much. I like to run a fairly stock desktop environment with minimal tweaking so my setup aligns with what receives the most QA/testing and that means I generally pick distro based on the desktop environment they ship, how much I like their defaults, and how much information there is to find online.
I like vanilla Gnome so Fedora is a great pick. I was never super into how cinnamon looked so I never really gave mint a big try, though I did daily drive ubuntu budgie for a few years and liked my experience with that. Whether I am using yum, apt, pacman or dnf isn’t really that big a deal, they all work. Several years managing redhat servers professionally has given me a lot of comfort troubleshooting in that setting so I tend to go for Fedora. Also a nice bonus to have more recent software available without jumping through hoops.
I do want to try out Pop OS and a few others and its cool to distro hop, but generally I just kind of like stock Fedora a LOT so I am not really that tempted to revisit other options and have to get all set up with a different workflow.