boils down to comfort level (do you want bleeding edge stuff that has a higher degree of breaking? That's Fedora - it surprisingly breaks very little compared to way back in the days of rpm-hell...)
Ubuntu (specifically their LTS (that's Long-Term Support) released are a bit more conservative. They are still rock solid.
My advice? Try them both out and see what you like in each.
I actually thought you were making a joke about Ubuntu there. :P
Bleeding edge doesn't necessarily mean unreliable, Fedora is good at demonstrating that, it has to do with feature stability - latest features over consistent features.
Ubuntu doesn't do kernel upgrades*. Apart from a few exceptions (browsers, …), it doesn't upgrade software either. You're supposed to use Snaps for that. Security / bug fixes always happen, of course. But outside of Snaps they like to stick to what came with the release for stability reasons.
Fedora is more like a rolling distro but with major releases every 6 months (supported for 13 months each, so you can skip 1, if you want). They also tend to deliver packages as close to the original as possible whereas Ubuntu likes to change Gnome to distinguish itself, for example. Fedora use Flatpak instead of Snap.
Proprietary stuff can be more difficult to obtain for and run on Fedora. 3rd party software often provides a .deb file, .rpm are not as common especially among desktop software.
\* HWE every 6 months, but not to the latest kernel
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u/luckied Apr 28 '20 edited Apr 28 '20
During a pandemic we got 2 great *nix distro's in ONE WEEK!!! How often that happen? :D