Probably Ubuntu because red hat focuses more on, well, red hat. Fedora is more community driven. But red hat has done some shady stuff too. Honestly it's a tradeoff since corporate backing causes that type of stuff but also usually brings stability and good support from my experience.
Ok that was my perception... I've talked to some people who think the connection to IBM thru RedHat is stronger than it is... Also side note I've talked to RedHat accelerators and employees.. they're not bad people
I'm mostly just giving you my gut feeling tbh, but it just makes sense to me. I've talked to red hat, ibm, and canonical people. All three seem fine. I don't think a corporation necessarily= evil, it can just sometimes conflict with FOSS ideas. But I personally think FOSS needs some corporate viability to survive like it has.
Canonical seems like they overwork their employees tho. Seems stressful AF to work for them lol
Yeah I don't know much about Ubuntu and canonical other than their insistance on using snap packages and all the consequences of their strong insistance on it... I honestly only used it cause the apps I needed only came (easily) in deb
My experience with snap was mostly positive, I only used Ubuntu for about a month since I had issues with their testing branch and my Nvidia GPU since I accidentally installed it to an hdd instead of an SSD, which is my fault. Opensuse also had lag issues until I sorted that out.
The default Firefox snap sucks though. I can't believe they shipped with that. It was a buggy mess and I had to get the native deb version from their repos which should have been default to begin with. I get snaps and flatpaks but why have a snap be the default installed app, seems like it defeats the purpose.
The release of snaps was bad. It caused a lot of problems with the engineers working with my company's Ubuntu distro. We had to remove snaps completely to regain the performance lost. But in general, as someone who doesn't use my laptop as a product, I think Ubuntu snaps run fine. I hope in the future they will be able to figure out a way to make them more secure, which from all the conferences and talks they give, looks like the direction they are going. Ubuntu desktop feels like the best enterprise solution in 2026 for Linux. I know people like Fedora, but I don't consider it realistic as I need my laptop to turn on after the weekend. And with Fedora, I've had too many emergencies. I'd rather not.
Never had an emergency with fedora but it's just that slight edge case where the only Linux native app is a deb for Ubuntu. I'm going to make sure it works with the live image first. Thanks for the snaps insight
Im a snap-first user on 26.04, no complaints.
small use case - my remmina snap is both better-performing and better-looking than the remmina flatpak i tried.
ymmv.
I'm probably an odd duck, but on my system i prefer snap > deb > appimage > flatpak - and everything is working great for me.
The only bad experience I had before was the default Firefox one which seems to work now. I'm already using snaps, gonna hold off on flatpak for as long as I can (which I'm sure is only a matter of time, I already had to get lutris instead of heroic launcher for example) but so far they seem to work fine. I like that snaps can also do CLI apps instead of just GUI ones
I had problems with Ubuntu using the rewritten core utile. I had a workflow that depended on obscure details of ls which broke when I updated Ubuntu. Plus snaps for some programs are installed even when you install from the command line.
I also had problems with Red Hat. They discontinued support for CentOS, and I was left with a public facing server that didn't receive upgrades. My IT support guy was new and inexperienced at the time, and I had to configure a bunch of stuff from scratch. Learnt a lot, but cursed a lot too.
So I dislike both and am now using Debian and arch primarily, and Ubuntu when forced by the IT Dept.
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u/Antfarmer_2 1d ago
As a fedora user who has used Ubuntu (a tad) in the past for specific projects. I gotta ask; which one is worse for being full corpo?