Fedora vs Debian and Arch Linux

Lets breakdown Linux Distributions and figure out which one is good at what. .

[TheWilldrick]

for the newbies or tinkerers, fedora's dnf has awesome rollback commands if you screw up your packages, mainly "dnf history" and "dnf swap". Both have saved my install so many times I'm embarrased to count them

[TheMetaldudeX]

I’m new to Linux still and found my self on fedora recently. The best part about this comparison is arch, deb, fedora are all great choices.

[chichudox]

Fedora is from my perspective, the most homogeneous Linux desktop distro out there related to experience and function. Why? In my opinion it's feels like has been made it from the backend-fronted to provide a logical, stable and consistent experience.

[JohnCremboz]

FYI: "leading edge" is what the Fedora people are calling their approach.

[JonDisnard]

Fedora is not based on RHEL. It's actually the other way around, RHEL is based on Fedora. Or actually now CentOS steam is based on Fedora, and RHEL is based on CentOS steam.

[BoyanOrion]

Never been happier with Arch. I've been using it extensively and very heavily 99% of the time for all my daily work and personal use.

[gilpo]

Finally!!! A distro review/comparison that is actually about the fundamental differences between the distros, their packages, and their package managers. I’m a Arch user (btw) but have been looking for comparisons with Fedora and all I could find were pretty much glorified GNOME reviews…
Amazing video!

[ChrisHaupt]

Tried to go Linux so many times and always went back to Windows for one reason or another. But I’m now running Fedora exclusively on my laptop and it’s been such a wonderful experience. Gnome is beautiful and smooth, OS updates are really well implemented (and frequent), and it even handles fractional scaling extremely well. I won’t be getting rid of the Windows partition because you never know when it might be needed, but I will be shrinking it dramatically.

[uMalice]

Fedora is a release based distro, not rolling . Fedora is upstream to RHEL. Fedora stable packages eventually go into RHEL. It's impressive how stable some distros have become and the feature set that is available. I'm a debian and/or mint user but warming to fedora again thanks to trying out Rocky. I love the fedora spins and hate Gnome. Am I the only one that thinks "did not finish" every time I type DNF? Excellent review Titus!!!

[GusStclair-ocxh]

I just switched to Fedora from Pop_OS and I can't say that I'll miss it. I definitely liked Pop_OS, but they made it hard to customize the desktop environment and make it my own. Fedora has been a pretty painless move, although learning the package manager was a bit of struggle at first.

[tanvirasif]

Debian - If u want an ultra stable experience and u don't care about having the latest software
Arch - If u prefer bleeding edge stuffs and don't mind updating and downloading a bunch of packages every now and then
Fedora - In b/w Arch and Debian, I suppose

[JessicaFEREM]

I'm really loving Fedora Workstation since it's got the RPMfusion repos which are like AUR but without the stability or maintenance problems

[ziggo]

My friends and I have started a month long Linux challenge to use it as a daily driver for about a month. It's been 10+ years since I've used a Linux desktop OS and it's certainly come a long way.

[erics]

I love OpenSuse Tumbleweed because it's bleeding edge and at the same time is very solid. It's a good competitor for Fedora.

[mananabanana]

Using Fedora Silverblue as my first Linux distro and absolutely loving the stability it offers. Especially because I broke several other distros before this while trying them out in virtual machines. If you're not super into tinkering or customization then immutable distros like Silverblue/Kinoite/openSUSE MicroOS are the way to go.

[Tony-pynh]

Finally someone who isn't just talking about the new desktop picture or what the new DE has to offer. All Linux distro's are "Linux" and the only thing that really separates them is the package manager . They all use the Linux kernel. It is just a question of how stable of a version you want. Great video Chris.

[MikeOnTrack]

This is the video that all new people to Linux, like me, need to watch.

There's so much focus on DTE in the Linux YouTuber space that it almost seems that underlying OS makes no difference, but that is not the reality.

[skyrunner]

I've had a similar experience with Arch and Debian based distros. Constantly swapping between them. I tried out Fedora at one point, but I just couldn't get into it at the time, but have been considering giving it another try now that I know more about Linux in general. This video has definitely helped me to solidify that decision to give Fedora another shot.

[TheFrantic]

Although I'm probably incorrect in this, I usually mentally group distros by their package manager, and then have a folder for specialty distros (Tails, Parrot, Alpine)

[Sitwayen]

AUR is the best way to use Linux for new users. I use Linux for at least 15 years and I still don't know how to build packages properly. I am not a programmer, if the instruction in the package does not work, I need to lose a lot of time looking it up online. And I have been using Linux exclusively for at least 8 years, switch to arch from ubuntu based, 4 years ago, and I am never using a Distro without the AUR anymore, I don't even distro hop anymore because it is so good.