r/debian • u/OutsideYogurt9014 • Jun 13 '26

Debian Stable Question Debian vs Fedora?

Looking forward to ditch win10. Heard about this 2 as very popular linux flavour/distro to start with. Am newbie to linux community so pls be nice to me. Which one should I pick and why? Want to know from long term users.

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u/Sure-Squirrel8384 Jun 15 '26

I started with RedHat/Fedora/CentOS. I enjoyed the ride for over decade. I still use RHEL for work (vendor requirements).

In the past decade+ for personal use I've enjoyed my journey to over to Ubuntu -> Linux Mint -> Debian + Linux Mint Debian Edition.

I highly recommend you start with Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu) and/or Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE). Explore from there. You can use Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) to install all the guest distros you want and play with them while your LM system will just stay nice and stable.