 So I've been using Fedora now for quite a while well over a month And I've made several videos about it in that time And I don't really want to talk about my experience too much in this video really what I want to talk about today is To answer the question is Fedora good for new users now I've talked about how Fedora is becoming more and more popular in the past and how it's kind of overtaking Ubuntu as the Main Linux distro if we can ever say there is a main Linux distro Which we really can't but it seems to be over the last two years or so that Fedora has become more and more popular Especially amongst new users So what I wanted to talk about today was is that a good thing is Fedora really that great for new users and now that I've used Fedora for quite a long period of time I can have more insight into which way we should answer that question So the first thing we need to answer when we're thinking about this is what makes a good beginners Linux distribution and I've talked about this before but really the main Things that make up a good beginners distro all have to do with installation and support when it comes down to Everything else it doesn't really matter because most of that stuff is going to be documented So when you talk about like package managers or installing something from a package Store or something like that all that stuff is either intuitive or is Fairly well documented no matter what distribution you're going to be using unless you're like talking about like gentoo or something And even they have documentation is just more technical You know what I mean? So let's look at Fedora when it comes to those two main points installation and Support the first one is going to be where Fedora really kind of falls off because the Fedora installer, which is called anaconda is Not the greatest installer out there It's not the most intuitive in fact It's quite dated and there are some peculiarities when it comes to choosing like the partition or the drive that you're going to be installing on that aren't necessarily the most intuitive thing for new users and on top of that is if the new user has Installed Linux before so let's just say they've done a few distro hops So they've installed the boon to they've installed man jar or something like that So they've experienced the ubiquity installer and they've experienced the calamari's installer both of those while different are basically the same Workflow you begin at the beginning you end at the end. You know what I mean? they basically have the same path that you follow when it comes to Fedora the path is completely different and It's not necessarily that it's bad It's just because it's different it's going to throw some people off add on top of that the peculiarities that I talked about earlier and The installer nest isn't necessarily the best for new users and they are working on that But it's still something that you kind of have to keep in mind the second thing that I said was important is support and support is where Fedora kind of has a mixed bag because it definitely does not have the breadth of popularity that Ubuntu has so if you Google how to do something on Linux chances are the tutorial articles that are going to come up are going to focus on telling you How to do that but they're going to tell you how to do it on Ubuntu so Everyone's probably had this experience if you use Linux for any amount of time You'll know that you've googled something to learn how to do something and they've tell you to pseudo app install something Even though you just asked how to do it on Linux They're assuming that you're using Ubuntu because Ubuntu is the most popular distro so Fedora doesn't really have that cash when it comes to literature on the internet and Published articles from people on the internet It doesn't mean that that stuff isn't out there It's just not as plentiful as it is for Ubuntu outside of that the support and like the community forums and Online in other places is fairly robust. It's not Probably as good as Ubuntu's is But it's good enough for most people and the one thing I found is that Ubuntu and Fedora their communities are Basically comparable when it comes to friendliness. I have had some more prickly people when it comes to Fedora But for the most part the people in the Fedora camp are just as happy to help new users as The ones in the Ubuntu camp. It's not universal, but it seems to be that way for me So those are the two most important things when it comes to deciding whether or not a distribution is good for new users and Fedora is Very much a mixed bag when it comes to it the installer I would say is not as intuitive and as good for new users as something like Ubuntu or elementary OS or Manjaro something like that. The community on the other hand is just as good I would argue for the most part as Ubuntu or any of those other distros So another thing that is important that I didn't really talk about earlier is stability and the reason why I didn't talk about it is because it's very when you talk about stability is very much a Thing that you have to take into account on a person-by-person basis. What's stable for me might not be stable for you I know many people who have tried Fedora and could not get it to work on their machines at all And it was an horrible experience for them I've known people who are like me who've had a wonderful experience and have no have had no problems And you can just replace that distro name with any others So I know people who have had excellent experiences with Arch. I had no people who can't install it for the life of them I know people who can't stand Ubuntu because it won't run on their machines And it's not stable or it always crashes or something And I know people who have run Ubuntu for 20 years. So really when it comes to stability It's much harder to say because it's going to very much depend on Several factors one that person's hardware. How is it going to interact with things like Wayland? So if they're going to use the Standard Fedora ISO they'll get genome and Wayland and that not and that might not necessarily be great for People who have NVIDIA cards. So that's going to be a factor Also outside of hardware it's going to be some kind of level of expertise because things are going to break a little bit more often On Fedora than they will on Ubuntu simply because you're going to be dealing with slightly newer packages It's not like Arch where things might break even more often But it's still something that you're going to have to keep in mind because Fedora does push out packages a lot faster Than Ubuntu or Debian or Mint or something like that. So when it comes to stability in terms of like Packages that break your system and things that might go wrong It's going to really kind of depend on what the problem solving skills of the new user is And that's where support comes in and I found that a lot of times the problems that I have had on Fedora Have been easily solved with just a google or hopping into a discord chat room or something like that It's been fairly easy to solve But all that's being said i'm not a new user anymore I consider myself a newb when it comes to linux, but i'm not really a new user So I can't really take my experience and say hey, this is how it's going to be for Brand new linux user named joe. You know what I mean? So that's definitely something that we'd have to kind of ask other people about We also have to talk a little bit about Wayland itself because Wayland is definitely one of those things where it's either ready for you or it's not ready for you and Like I said earlier That's really going to depend on whether or not you're using an Nvidia card Because if you are using an Nvidia card chances are you're not going to have a very good experience if you use fedora Or at least if you use the Wayland version of fedora that comes with the genome package, right? And the thing is is that is default and it's not out there for new users So if you are a new user and you've chosen fedora as your first distro Or maybe your second distro or whatever and you've not done a lot of research and you install fedora You probably will get it installed and you get to the point where you know, you start thinking tinkering around While it may run you may experience these issues that crop up because of the Compatibility issues between Nvidia and Wayland and you may not know what's going on there Now it is a good opportunity to google it and figure it out But when it comes to New users at least in my experience a lot of people when they discover a problem when they're a new user They're not going to solve it right away They may google it if it looks like something that they might be able to fix then they will Attempt to fix it, but most people will just hop again. You know what I mean? I know I was like that when I first started when I experienced a problem I didn't even attempt to fix it. I just hopped You know what I mean and I think a lot of people are like that not necessarily everybody But again, I think a lot of people are and that first experience with Nvidia and Wayland may turn a lot of people away So at the end of the day to answer the big question is fedora good for new users It's kind of a mixed bag. I would still probably recommend something like Mint or zoren or something like that even stock of buntu would probably be better for New users simply because there's this breadth of information online Dedicated to a buntu based distros and that stuff is just kind of can't be beat by any other distro including fedora It may get there someday, but it's not there yet So I would probably still recommend those distros other than fedora, but I would also say this If a new user were to land on fedora I don't think that they would be sorry for it unless they Met those hardware problems that I talked about if they got past those I think that a lot of people No matter their low skill level on linux would have a fantastic time with fedora. I know I have But again, it's going to be very much dependent on those things we talked about So if you have thoughts on this you can leave those in the comment section below I'm sure I could ramble on about this this topic for a little while longer But I think we've talked about it for enough today Anyways comments in the comment section below you can follow me on twitter at the linuxcast You can follow me on mastodon or odyssey those links will be in the video description just below the like button If you could hit that like button, I'd really appreciate it. It does Seriously help the channel you can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash the linuxcast Just like all these fine people. Thanks to everybody who does support me on patreon and youtube I truly do appreciate it if you do support me on youtube just So you know I never get emails from youtube about new members So if I've forgotten you and I haven't added you the credits or whatever I apologize for that. 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