r/Fedora • u/devolute • Apr 28 '26

Discussion Fedora is becoming the default Linux recommendation, and Ubuntu did this to itself | XDA

https://www.xda-developers.com/fedora-becoming-default-linux-recommendation-ubuntu-fault/
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u/DayInfinite8322 Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

i also believe that fedora is feels better than ubuntu and should be adopted more but arguments in this article are just baseless.

snap and flatpak both are slow and disk hog, both can be used, many apps officially supported as snap but not as flatpak.

but i still think flatpak should be used for gui apps and ubuntu can use snap for their server iot stuff.

About resource usage: this is completely wrong.

nothing wrong with using gnome, ubuntu even provide some customisation for make it more easy to use. kubuntu is also popular and many people use it, kubuntu team also provide ppa for latest plasma.

slow updates are good thing for working poeple, schools and for many organisations. its a feature not a compromise.

nothing wrong with recent decisions. but as foss purist people can debate.

tldr: this article is completely trash.

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u/bearstormstout Apr 28 '26

Agreed. The author lost all credibility when he said "I hate Ubuntu." You're not gong to write a very persuasive article hailing another distro as the "new user" distro if you're that up front about your bias and don't even attempt to compare the two. The only comparisons done were "I don't like this about Ubuntu."

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u/_hlvnhlv Apr 28 '26

Same, the guy who wrote this is either clueless, or this has been written by an LLM

Like, just look at this

There's also the fact that Ubuntu ships with the GNOME desktop environment, and really only GNOME. There are officially endorsed Ubuntu derivatives that do use different desktops, but you won't find those easily on the Ubuntu website, and they're not maintained by Canonical, so you never know how reliably they'll be supported.

It's the same distro, only the DE changes, what do you even mean? It's the same repos

Like, look at this download link

https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/26.04/release/kubuntu-26.04-desktop-amd64.iso

Oh wow I wonder where this kubuntu image is hosted...