Great video Matt. I've heard from other content creators that Fedora can be considered a 'go-between' in rolling-release distros, being between Debian is updated less, and Arch which is constantly updated. Another comparison that brings in an alternative factor is that MX Linux customizes Debian Kernel releases to work efficiently with not only their MX Tools we highly tout; but also providing a better driver updates that the MX team stays more on top of than the lagging Debian option. Like MX; Fedora can have this effect to the point that it may be more beneficial for some rather than Arch, which has less 'oversight' in drivers meeting the demands of fast AUR turnarounds in app updates.

Nice videos.. been watching you off and on for a while. Nice coverage, thanks for sharing!

New to Linux and really taking to it the further I get into the experience. I've been consuming a lot of content while I grapple with the front end learning curve. I really appreciate how you cover your content, the thoughtful presentation of helpful info. You've helped a lot and I'm happy to sub. Thanks for taking the time to do these videos.

Late last night, I made the switch to Fedora Linux 36 from Windows 11 Pro. I noticed an early sign of Windows that Microsoft will have a complete control of your computer in the near future and guess what? You don't even own them as long as you are using Windows OS. As for Fedora, it seems works and cope well with my system and app I used on Windows almost available on Linux as well. Few apps not on Linux so looking for alternative is no problem. Did I regretted made that decision? Nah. I noticed the performance in Linux drastically increased!

I appreciate you give your time to explain every little concept and issues of both sides and give 'technical' reviews. Unlike other people who mostly stay on the GUI and 'look and feel' side. Good luck for your future. 👍

9:27 we're all watching this in the future. Good comparison, you're quite detailed and thorough. Would love to try Fedora but it didn't work on my old laptop (driver issues) and probabyl won't on my new one (gaming laptop). The new laptop is why I moved from Mint to PopOs.

A year later I am watching this, good video. You are knowledgeable and present well. An asset to the video community. Well done.

I am a new user, that switched to Linux from Windows and of course my first choice was Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I did install it and it ran ok, but after switching off my laptop it just wouldn't start, some issue with snapd, from threads with similar problems I guess it was an M2 SSD support issue for some brands. Currently I installed Fedora 35 and it works fine, no issues for now, though the installer was a bit confusing and not as straightforward as Ubuntu's.

I come from Debian and now I'm on Fedora Workstation since version 35 and I think I'm staying because of the fluidity and almost no inconvenience. Although the truth is that I started using Linux with Ubuntu and it is a great distribution. Greetings Matt.

Would be interested to know the number of packages each distro comes preinstalled with. Not a 1:1 measurement but still interesting

thank you for the great content. Subbed.

This is the best analysis of the two. Well done!

awesome video, thanks so much !

Switched from Windows. There were major GPU issues on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Installed Fedora 35 and everything is OK. Now I'm using v36.

Nice comparison. My pick between the two is Ubuntu, but not because Fedora is a bad distro. Far from it. I'm just comfortable with apt and prefer it to dnf. I also like Ubuntu's out of the box experience, but that's due to me not wanting to spend much time customizing. Both are great, it's worth checking both out.

Great information!

I would love to know what your thought on using i3 and xfce together is? That's my current setup I'm using it on a Linux mint install. I like i3 but I still need a panel so this is the easiest solution I found for myself

This guy is the most balanced linux youtube out there. Absolutely on the ball. Nobody talked about fedora installer being a pain, but it is especially if you are used to calamares

Very interesting content. Could someone tell me how the screenshot tool is called?

Hi Matt, thanks a lot! Best wishes from Germany, Ralf

very well explained. thanks

I’ve tried 4 different popular distros, and I know hardly anything about Linux. The only distro that “just worked” for me was Fedora. I come from 20+ years of using Windows. I’m a “GUI guy.” I don’t like the terminal. And with all that being said, I really enjoy using Fedora :)

16:15 smooth. as a gnome user, i respect the shade

Fedora is the better of the two easily, Fedora is honestly what Ubuntu used to be and now, just falls behind with seemingly every update.

Hello. I recently discovered your channel and I like it. My recommendation is for you to wear shirts and caps with your own branding. So anyone that sees a video of yours will identify your channel and brand.

Fedora 36 was actually finally released right on the date of your video: 10 may 2022. ;) I have kept checking that "Fedora Linux 36 Schedule" webpage on their website during the last weeks, 10 may was actually "Final Target date #3" on that. I have installed Fedora next to Arch and Windows on my laptop (Anaconda is actually kinda great with precise partitioning options, especially because I use Btrfs for every Linux system), I it's great. It's indeed super modern and progressive. And I need modern kernel versions on this laptop, not just an easier installing videodriver. Fedora definitely not the "keep it simple" mind (actually hard to customize certain basic things in the system due to a lot of complexity), but for that we already have the GREAT Arch Linux, which is very modern with it's package versions as well (very parallel to Fedora). Great NVIDIA tip for laptops with hybrid graphics: If you dual boot like me, it's very easy to copy Arch's great "prime-run" script to a bin folder on Fedora. But about Ubuntu, I am actually a bit fed up with it, and yes it's largely because Snap = crap, but especially also because Firefox has been moved to it, which dramatically increases startup time. Open source and quality have become less and less Ubuntu's first priority, but market share is actually given the main priority. And the invasive proprietary Snap store is just one other example of it. It's desktop is indeed GREAT though and I love it! But it's not enough for me, I want an actually good distro, which it is not. And oh yeah I really like APT indeed, and so I like Debian a lot. Especially for it's idialistic vision, stability and being as free and open source as possible. Note about that last point that this is why I actually respect Debian and Fedora for having closed source repos disabled by default. For me it's actually kind of a possitive thing, not a negative one. Because you can still enable them if you like.

I have 2 computers with Linux installed. Manjaro on a mini pc and now Ubuntu 22.04 on my Dell XPS 13 laptop. I wanted to run Manjaro on my XPS 13 but is was buggy. I installed Ubuntu and I'm able to get everything to work even the finger print sensor and even the face recognition. It takes all of 5 minutes to install flatpak support and that installs the gnome software store with flatpak support. Honestly, Ubuntu is working awesomely.

Thanks for such a great video Matt. I do have a question, it's about the how are so many organizations focused in developing different Linux DIstros but few of them are trying to develop better productivity, graphical design, and gaming software for linux? I have always considered that those kind of applications are as or more important than the OS per se. It has been years since Linux has been available to the market and I feel that for those users have the need to use in a daily basis Microsoft Office 2016 / 2021, Adobe's suites, or games such as Skyrim Ultimate, Borderlands, Stellaris, etc but in Windows instead of Linux... it can be deterring the lack of information if those programs can actually be run on Linux or not. I have this ignorance if those kind of software can or not run on a Linux environment and how stable and secure would they be? So personally I use Linux in very simple stuff and keep my Windows 10 for real important things. Itpresume that most people might see Linux an OS for geeks, something interesting that some hackers and developers use, and not for real problems, solutions or gamming, which is a shame at the end (I say some as you know those "few" people). I can't believe that in so many years Linux doesn't have an Office suite as competitive or better than Microsoft Office. Obviously there's the money factor but seriously a OS that has so many distros but so few sophisticate productivity software, there must be something wrong. Would it be to much to ask if you can build up a series of casts talking about this topic, on if Linux is or isn't behind in productivity, design and gaming technology / apps in comparison to Windows desktops OS? What is been done in those areas and where to find info about it? I would really appreciate it. Thanks for everything.

Although always entertaining, it is like asking is Sedan or SUV better? Is Audi A6 or Mercedes E-Class better? Is red or blue better? As soon as we add "...for my specific use case and my taste" things start getting interesting 💪

what screenshot app you are using?

Which has more software/apps available ubuntu or fedora? As in apt or rpm. Also what about manjaro gnome? How does it comepare with ubuntu and fedora? Thanks alot

16:15 🤣 a grave mistake indeed

Up to 14:00 you are very focused on UI and details of a few programs (distibution and package installers...), and so far I have not so much a good idea of how they compare globally. As dev (HPC, AI, desktop, graphics) and researcher and admin (VM, servers, desktops), I will be more interested in maintenance of packages (eg., can I use easily the lastest release of X, or dev version of Y, are they well maintained), how much cluttered is the distro, ease of management of network, samba, hardware, drivers, and possibly how much they customize their distribution and make it so custom one need to search too often somewhere on the web how to do admin things (add service, add driver, change window manager), which is a huge drawback (eg., I appreciate FreeBSD a lot for its simple direct administration).

Recently switched to Ubuntu 22.04 and all is well, snaps mostly respect DT tweaks which has been my biggest gripe in the past. I usually run with Fedora however a recent update broke a few things and as we see they are late on delivering 36. Actually I'm liking ZFS, makes Ubuntu seem faster than Fedora with BTRFS *shrugs*...

can i upgrade to fedora 36 through the gnome-software or do i need to use the terminal?

With the newer releases, installing proprietary drivers and software on fedora has gotten quite a bit easier.

As an arch user I recommend friends and or new users to use fedora

if fedora/wayland starts working with nvidia without difficulties, i would consider it as a primary candidate for a main workstation.

So my main concern is I want to know why. It's difficult for me to explain what I mean by that. Say I'm learning to drive. I learned stick shift first and it translated perfectly when jumping into an automatic transmission. Or musical instruments. You have the same notes, but some are strings, some brass or woodwind, some are percussive or a combination. Learning electric keyboard translates perfectly to piano and pipe organ, but not bass guitar. Bass guitar is easy to go to lead guitar, but is probably not the same as ukulele or violin... So, we have .rpm and .deb. along with a command line difference between apt and dnf. Is that the only difference? Is navigation via terminal exactly the same? If I gain full command control of backend of Ubuntu, can I get a job at a company maintaining their business with redhat? Will experience in backend of fedora let me know how to tinker on a Mac (Mac is deb, no?)? Back to the car analogy, a stickshift driver is a better end user than the automatic. I want to be the best end user in my long term goals. With musical instruments, a guitar player is not objectively a better end user than a drummer or a saxophonist. They're just hitting the same notes from a different approach. In this sense, I suppose the reason why to pick one is the part I don't get. Sure harmonica is nice but I would probably prefer spending most time learning and playing guitar or piano to make music with regularly. Any thoughts?

nice job!

2:15 "User creation doesn't happen during install" That may be true for GNOME, but I use the Cinnamon Spin and there is indeed user creation during install.

Ubuntu works better for me. I've switched from windows 10 to fedora in 2018 i just only used fedora for few months. My experience with fedora is pretty bad. So i switched to Ubuntu. I've been using Ubuntu for 4 years now it's rock solid & more polished than fedora

watching this on fedora 38:D very nice vid very good explained..my choice is obvious, cause i want vanilla gnome and not being served with things i might not like..there is no bad or unstable distro, ubuntu was great back in the days i personally like ubuntu and canonnical effort to make more things work out of the box..but there are users who just dont want that..nowdays ubuntu has a lot of issues during install itself..and some things wont work as expected, peopce complains,but maybe they are doing something wrong i dont know..fedora just works, stable, fast, and have the latest and best gnome integration (i am the fan of gnome) easy to use

my top 3: Open SUSE, Debian, Fedora

What about amd for fedora? Is it fine?

Unrelated, but have you ever heard of Elkowar’s Wacky Widgets (eww)? I haven't seen anyone talk about them. Could be something fun to play with.

I think that Fedora 36 is supposed to be released today

I installed Ubuntu on a second laptop back in 2009. I wont say im a power user. I struggled thru the few problems i had many times askimg help in the forums. Watching a video complaining how Ubuntu was releasing old versions of Gnome and then some packages were the old version and others were new... and complaining about snaps i thought i would tey Fedora. I like it very much. There were more things to do right after installing... like getting dvd mp3 and other video codecs to work... also i like the resize button on my windows... but after that it works like a champ. Will see if i can upgrade to 37 when it comes out or i have to clean install and then do all the work again getting it like i like it.

Both Ubuntu and Fedora can be upgraded in place. This is an important consideration to make when choosing a distro, but it’s thankfully a non-factor in this comparison.

The journey thoughout Linux distros is amazing Started on Kurumin 3.0 / Windows XP dualboot, then Mint Maya / Windows 7, and now Fedora 39 / Windows 10. Currently transitioning for Linux only. I'll leave windows for good when Windows 10 reaches it's EOL 😂

Ubuntu is easier and prettier looking out of the box but I prefer how Fedora is almost like a rolling release and easier to upgrade to the newer version without having to reinstall.

I'm not a linux savy guy, I just use it casually. but can fedora utilize ubuntus repositories? cuz if it, then there are a gazillion number of packages for different fields that are available for ubuntu but not others. it just makes life drastically easier if you are on ubuntu. if fedora does something for this, and somehow make this a reality where if something is not available on its official repos, it can use ubuntus, then that would be a game changer. (If I'm not they are both debian based, so they should work together right? please correct me if I'm wrong)

I think ubuntu apt is overall a better a package manager than yum, even though is not easy to install stuff on apt, yum doesnt make it any easier. Both distros also have weird standards that they made up and bundle lots of packages you are not even going to use, so i think the package manager is the deal breaker in this case

I definitely think fedora 36 is a great distro and for a new user coming from windows it's the simple choice

It was once my opinion that if you only can have one operating system, then you first choose whether you want an rpm-based distro or a Debian-based distro. Then if you choose the rpm-based then from there you would decide if Fedora is better for you than OpenSUSE or Mageia, RHEL, or AlmaLinux. It is too bad something like Korora never became a major player. However, I now only run Linux inside a Chromebook container. I would tell newbies to try Linux if they have access to a Chromebook.

Fedora's "Everytthing" installer is a work of art and really shows how modular anaconda is.

I like Fedora, but I also like Ubuntu, but which is better? There is only one way to find out. FIGHT!!

As a non technical user I'm just happy with both

I remember recently hearing some thing that in a upcoming version of fedora either 36 or 37, the Fedora team is planning on making a change where if you don’t run UEFI on your computer as opposed to legacy bios, you won’t be able to do a clean install a fedora. You can upgrade from an old version if you already had fedora installed but you can’t do a clean install say with a USB stick. Have you heard anything about this?

I'm a Fedora fan- you get a large team and corporation associated with it, WITHOUT it being "corporatized" like Ubuntu.

Hello Matt, Do you have an opinion on Deepin Linux?

Fedora hands down for me. So good

40: sec ~ Define 'popular'. Where are you getting your figures from? Note that I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm asking what your source is. You are obviously not using Distrowatch, which I applaud, that's a hit counter on a list - not any kind of actual listing of how many installs of an OS there are and how many end users, but ...

fedora. hands down.

Fedora is good but keep in mind it's the testbed of Red Hat / IBM. And the daily restarts when Fedora install updates are annoying.

Regular Ubuntu LTS have support for 5 years. The other flavors "only" have support for 3 years.

For me Fedora+Xfce4 all the way !

I tried Ubuntu but it felt horrible. I kinda liked Fedora but it’s very hard for me to ditch Manjaro.

Fedora 38 should have complete access to Flathub by default

Fedora is best♥️ but.. if anyone want Ubuntu without snap go for linux mint..

angry bird !

IMO if you use a PC that's a few years old and you're not a turbo nerd, Ubuntu. If you *are* a turbo nerd with a high-end PC and you're going to start screwing around trying to get you Steam games running as well as they possibly could (or whatever else), Fedora's actually going to break *less* because it's kind of built for your "I want this cool new thing, let's screw around" mentality.

Screw snaps, flatpaks and event the AUR. Just compile everything from source like a giga chad.

I use arch btw

As someone who works in e-commerce and uses desktop Linux at work. I got to say that I don't know wtf is Redhat doing with Gnome and other desktop frontend stuff. Ubuntu used to be OK but now they are doing same as RH/Fedora. That stuff is totally unproductive for me to use. I need modular desktop that I can modify to my needs not some semi-mobile desktop.

I was liking to follow your vids... although you are very "glued" to software install and updates... that represents like 1% of time I am in front of a PC... But.... after watching Mint vid... very deceiving... please... open your mind... you are dealing with free and open software...

Fedora is cutting edge done right.

Fedora has always been better at everything Red Hat stands after Canonical sold herself to the devil

Fedora! Hands down!

I like Fedora because of instant update

I would say Arch. Arch now officially offers a install script, it isn't that hard to install as before, and it has lots of resources that other distros don't have or difficult to install. I did switch from Arch to Fedora few days ago, but I gave it up today, it lacks so many things that I need, and I switch back to Arch Linux.

Ubuntu vs Fedora which one more malware, virus, hacking resistant??

I prefer ubuntus out of box experience, and fedora is better for everything else

Both are riddled with issues that any "Newbie" would become frustrated with.

there is no question. f cannonical. use fedora at all costs.

fedora. just get fedora.

Ignore Ubuntu. Go for Fedora. You’ll have to learn some things, but you should be expect that if you’re getting into Linux. Just get it over with. It’s not that bad.

Void. xD

No comparison really. I always end back with Fedora.

VS better there is no thing. they are distros. you can build your own linux that will be same good as them if you use same packages that they havent done its thos "sunday programmers" thats linux someone like you have created "nano" and all rest linux programs lol there is no "linux" company that do all one linux that rule everything i mean beat macos and windows. it never happen. linux will allways be distros. grab all these packages togetter and add wallpaper call it ubuntu but its debian in core lol

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Bro I've been asking this question in every Linux forum there is, I have a 6TB WD MY Book External Desktop HDD Drive, it's connected via USB3 but ain't powered by the PC, it draws power straight via these charger thingies; I have 2 worries, I didn't know U have to Install a fqn driver for this piece of sh1t otherwise its cooling and sh1t wont work, USB suspension ejects it, etc... when you install the driver, Windows recognizes it as a typical internal HDD and only then functions properly; There's no official or unofficial driver for this sack of sh1t... AND it doesn't support any file format other than NTFS. I have another 4tb Internal NTFS those are SSD I could free 1tb for Dual boot, but since i DO NOT wanna use windows anymore I dunno what to do with that MyBook fq Me; worst thing I ever bought; and as I understand its safer Not to expose NTFS partition inside linux OS; besides u gotta understand I cant move around 10 tb of data (all stored in NTFS partitions for that matter) given all that any suggestions as to how can I stop MyFq from turning on, it turns on the same time as other USB ports, keep that one off log into linux? basically is there a way to turn off a particular USB-port (well there is, in the bios), then turn it on once the Windows is already has booted up?

fedora sounds complicated......ubuntu sucks the only "apt" distro out of mint, ubuntu, and POP_os pop is the only one i recommend with a good package GUI store. arch yea i use pamac....but im not a dev im not a IT guy so i don't know anything bout scripts and i have a terrible memory to remember keybinds. but the AUR is awesome and in pamac i can select 10 + packages "apps" i need at once instead of finding all the package git clones and stuff in the arch wiki. idk im mid 30's and trying to learn new stuff after using windows all my life. so forgive my opinions. lol

> Ubuntu

The g in gnome is silent...

Ubuntu is dead