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Debian is out-of-date with packages although for good reasons and Ubuntu is a corporate lobotomized version Debian.

Fedora is bleeding edge not recommended for anything other than testing and is of corporate RedHat now owned by IBM and Arch is Gentoo's jealous cousin.

It's why I use FreeBSD and keeping close tabs on Haiku.

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This is a good illustration of the general rule that short one-sentence explanations of a complex technical topic or decision should usually be ignored whereas long explanations that go into details are at least worth something if there aren't obvious falsehoods in it.

> Fedora is bleeding edge not recommended for anything other than testing

we have vastly different opinions on bleeding edge.

Well, I may of made an error in my poke. I more meant is that it's not recommended for production usage and I would call daily driver systems as production. I will admit fault on that.

As myself I'm currently using FBSD16 for my colocated servers and desktop. I have been bleeding lately.

I wouldn't consider it suitable for servers but I think it's perfectly fine for desktops. I still use Debian stable on my desktop because I prefer keeping out of date packages.

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