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I’m not new to linux but i’m not an expert either, i use Fedora KDE daily on my thinkpad L590 and i’ve tried also Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
From my experience i find Fedora a much better experience, ad i don’t really understand why i feel this much improvement in quality.
Starting with the UI, i find it very cured and well designed, everything works well and animations are on point, i find the UI also almost perfect on Ubuntu, but on Linux Mint i had several strange behaviour.
The thing that surprised me was the touchpad feedback, none of the other distros gave me a food feedback, the worst was Linux Mint where the sensibility of the scrolling was extremely high, than Ubuntu was a little better, but none of them had a scrolling speed slider or a method to fix it, don’t know why since it is one of the things that naturally someone wants to adjust to its personal preference. However, Fedora nailed the sensitivity and the scrolling inertia right from the beginning, and there is a slider to change the scrolling sensitivity using touchpad.
Other that that, i found battery and performance much superior, i got smooth experience with balanced energy, where with Ubuntu i had to use performance mode to get no lag and the battery was discharging a lot quicker compared to Fedora.
Other that that i can’t really tell you why i found Fedora that much better, but when i use it i feel like i’m using a finished OS that works flawlessly and i never think “they need to improve this and that”, where using Ubuntu and Linux Mint i thought is multiple times a day.
Do you feel the same? Is there a reason why the experience is so smooth and straight forward?
Need to know the numbers before we get into why it’s good. What are the benchmarks? System specs and what you’re using them for would be a great starting point.
Fedora’s great because it’s always at the bleeding edge of Linux tech. Just check out what’s coming in F38 - PipeWire improvements, better KDE integration… upstream is where it’s at" Release Notes
Fedora’s good because of its rolling release model and active community. It gets updates directly from Red Hat, so you get the latest security patches and software versions ASAP. Tested it myself - 99% of my issues were resolved with a simple ‘dnf update’. What are the benchmarks for comparing Fedora to other distros?
Actually, Fedora’s biggest flaw is its tendency to become the bleeding edge testbed for Red Hat’s ideas, often before they’re ready. It’s not a polished distro like Ubuntu or Debian, but a development platform in disguise.
I’m not sure that’s a fair characterization, contrarian_chris. According to DNF (Depsolver Network Fetcher) data from 2020, Fedora has a faster package update cycle than Ubuntu and Debian, but also a higher percentage of successfully updated packages (81% vs 75% for Ubuntu and 69% for Debian) [1]. This suggests that Fedora’s “bleeding edge” approach doesn’t necessarily mean it’s