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Comment by kirubakaran | Hacker News Reader

How is Fedora better than Debian? (genuinely curious)

It's not, it's just different. You mostly get newer stuff and more breakage.

So it's like Debian Unstable?

A bit, but it feels a lot more alien. If you're moving through the Debian/Ubuntu family, the base system is quite similar, apt is always there for you etc... . In Fedora, it's different.

> more breakage.

NO! STOP!

Seriously, don't spread rumors. Debian "Stable" has bugs and issues that up-to-date distros have solved.

The word "Stable" has 0 correlation with bug-free. It is entirely meaning "outdated/old" and used for bug consistency, not OS stability.

Faster, feature rich, less bugs, things just work.

Debian-family will have you running into hardware issues, peripheral issues, software conflicts, and using the terminal to update/install things.

I used to think Linux was cheap/knockoff Windows.... No, that was just Debian-family. Fedora is better than Windows.

As somebody who has the family using debian for decades now, I am very averse to trying out a new daily driver. Of course if it really is better and not just a different way of going about things, it is worth a try. But this comment gives me no real information, just an opinionated take without pointing to anything specific other than I might need to use apt, which I like. The hardware, software, peripheral comments seem odd or at least about seven years out of date, since I rarely have trouble with any of that and many vendors focus on publishing Debian compatible drivers / software as their only Linux contrib, so they actually get things before other distros in many instances.

You are probably the worst person to ask about this topic because you are used to a poorly performing distro. You already learned all the terminal commands to fix things. You already know all the stuff you need to upgrade.

Most people havent been using linux for decades, and Fedora takes care of things you 'deal with'.

> The hardware, software, peripheral comments seem odd or at least about seven years out of date,

Sorry dude, this is just wrong. You literally could not run Nvidia GPUs on Debian last year due to Kernel 5. Your ignorance doesnt make this problem go away. Any new laptop + debian is a disaster.

"Don't use Nvidia, don't use laptops, learn the terminal, its not that hard to upgrade X, its not that hard to install Y, its not that hard to change Z setting"- Debianer

The main one for me is not pushing snaps and other weird canonical ideas.

Canonical is Ubuntu not Debian.

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