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.
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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.
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.
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
I prefer Mint just because it’s what I’m used to. Otherwise both are pretty solid distros.
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 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.
I’m personally still loving Regolith Desktop on top of Ubuntu/Debian.
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 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.
Fedora is a great and user-friendly distro but I wouldn’t really recommend it. Historically, Fedora has always been kind of test site for Red Hat and it still can be considered the upstream for RHEL with all the downsides that come with upstream software.
I am a Void user myself because I like its minimalist approach but it is not for people who are new to Linux. Whenever people I know tell me they want to try Linux, I usually recommend Mint (Which is a long-standing goto newbie distro, imo. It is polished enough and has a great community.), Pop!_OS (Great out-of-the-box hardware support.) and Endeavour (Polished and user-friendly arch-based experience.) to new linux users.
Mint is very opinionated and made explicitly for less technical users. If you have basic command line skills (or you’re willing to learn) Fedora gives you more choice and in my experience it’s actually more reliable than Debian based distros.
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.
