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Did you consider Pop_OS? What made you choose Fedora? I went with Pop but I’ve always been curious about Fedora and really impressed that Wayland is working so well for you on Nvidia.

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Quite simply, Fedora is by far the distribution with more paid developers, and that certainly shows.

I started using Fedora from more or less 2 decades ago. There was tones of different issue though. But it got much better since 18 or 19. I have upgraded it all the way to 40. There was one issue around Intel display driver which I had to enter console and uninstall the update. But other than that, I hardly had anything to complain about. Did not switch mainly because of VisualStudio and games. Windows 11 put the last straw onto the camel's back. Haven't tried Pop_OS yet, probably will try it someday if I got time.

I initially started with Ubuntu to run the curated Desktop tools in DHH's new omakub.org but Wayland was broken in Ubuntu, Network Manager would frequently hit 100% CPU freezing the OS and it didn't wake from suspend.

Considered Pop!_OS but they're running an older version of Ubuntu and are in the middle of transitioning to their new Rust Cosmic Desktop which I figured would be immature at launch.

I ended up going with Fedora as IMO it was the more bleeding edge with new software, e.g. Wayland by default and their new Atomic Desktops look like they could be the future.

Excellent, thanks. This will be front of mind if the Cosmic transition goes tits-up. For now I’ll just keep mumbling the mantra to myself: trust in System76!

Never liked Ubuntu. It's just a Debian variant that lost its way.

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