 I'm a fedora fanboy. Now. This is a fairly recent development I've been using fedora now for two and a half months and I've made several videos about fedora during that time for I Think good reasons because I really like fedora and I like talking about fedora But I know that there are some people out there like Matt. Why are you always talking about fedora? Like it seems to be the only distro you cover now and it's not true I cover plenty of other distros but I do make a lot of fedora videos And I wanted to talk a little bit about why Fedora has become so popular not only with me, but with a lot of Linux youtubers I think that it all comes down to two things the first is that fedora is really good like it is really good it has been The best Linux experience that I've ever had on a computer Which is kind of saying something because I've had a lot of good experiences over the last five and a half years or so it has been a Solid distribution where I've had no updates break anything I've had a good experience with the amount of software that I have access to and when I can't find something in the Repositories I have access to either the fly hub or the copr And I've basically been able to find any software that I need Which is the biggest problem that or the biggest problem I expected to have when I switched from arch because I was leaving the you are behind so I think that the Quality of or the amount of software that you have access to the stability that it seems to offer Like I know that there are some people who have had problems with fedora but everyone has some problems with some distro it just doesn't work with their hardware set up or something and For me at least Fedora has been very very stable And I know it has been for a lot of other people as well And on top of that is that they are for a lot of different spins and stuff like that now that have become increasingly popular So if you don't like you know, I'm you can use Katie or I3 or Maté or whatever you want to use so that choice is also Something that didn't really exist a few years ago while spins have been around for a while There are more spins now, and they are better maintained than ever before so that's the first reason fedora is really good and You can add on top of that they're really stellar support for pipe wire Which is not something you see in other distros at least not yet the release dollar support for Wayland because both of those projects are developed by Projects leaders that are very closely Related to fedora, so you're going to get much more or at least better support on fedora for those two things Then you will on other distros at least as of right now And you get the fact that it's kind of splitting the middle between a rolling release and a static release When you talk about rolling and static you think of Arch Linux on one hand and like Debian or Ubuntu on the other Whereas with Debian and Ubuntu you're going to get really old packages really old kernels and stuff like that I'm talking about really old. I mean older, you know what I mean like LTS versions of kernels And that's the way those are things are meant to be used you Get new updates for your software when the distro releases And it does release every six months or so you do get updates for your software quite often It's still going to be behind something like a rolling release like arch where it's on the complete bleeding edge And of course that comes with all the pitfalls of rolling release as well where you're kind of the guinea pig for Everything that comes out and you're going to experience much more in terms of bugs and stuff like that And it's the reason why a lot of people consider arch unstable with fedora It sits in the middle So it's not using as old software as Ubuntu or Debian You're going to get much newer software and more often But you're not going to be using the latest latest stuff Immediately as it comes out and risk your system becoming unstable. So it kind of sits in the middle It's kind of a rolling rolling release. It's also kind of a static release And that ability to split things in the middle and just kind of sit there means that your system is going to be Further updated than Debian or Ubuntu But not as unstable as you might expect with arch, which I think is a good thing and a lot of people really enjoy So the second reason why I think fedora has seen this Increase in popularity is simply because a lot of people don't like Ubuntu anymore Ubuntu used to be the most popular distribution and I'm not talking about in terms of numbers It's still the most popular in terms of numbers But the reputation of Ubuntu and canonical itself has gone down in recent years Some of that is simply because Ubuntu has kind of become a little stale I mean, if you're being honest with yourself, you probably think that the Uy of Ubuntu hasn't changed in 10 years and that's because it hasn't it looks almost exactly the same. Yes they've changed themes, but the pieces are all in the same spot and While they've done some things to make it look better And I do think that this last Ubuntu release was really good in terms of accent colors and being able to move the Panel around those things are really nice. The fact that the default is still the way it is and they still have this Really weird interest in giving you the oddest default wallpaper ever It just kind of makes it feel like they haven't moved forward in a long time and that perception whether it's true or not Kind of impacts the reputation Add on top of that canonical is not the most loved company in the world Now I know that fedora is ran by red hat and red hat is not a beloved company either But it doesn't seem to be as maligned as canonical is for whatever reason now It could be because canonical seems to be very Okay with working with microsoft and google when it comes to projects things like flutter and stuff like that They don't seem to have a problem with working with larger big tech giants Now fedora and in this case red hat on the other hand They are obviously owned by ibm, which is also a big tech giant But I don't know if this is just my perception, but ibm doesn't ever seem to be as Evil as google and microsoft maybe it's just because we don't hear about them And they're more of an enterprise brand than google and apple and microsoft are so maybe that's probably just my perception but The taint of ibm on red hat doesn't seem to be as bad as the taint of google and microsoft on Canonical if that makes any sense at all and of course there are other reasons why Canonical gets a lot of crap and one of those big reasons is snaps I don't think that you can ignore snaps when you talk about the decreased popularity of ubuntu snaps aren't good I'm just going to put that out there From a consumer's perspective, they're not a good product. They're slow They have other issues when it comes to permissions and stuff like that that just don't exist on other types of packaging formats And you know, they have theming issues and you just you can go down the line and snaps just have all of these issues The biggest one of course being speed, right? If you have the snap of firefox and you launch it and it takes 45 seconds to load That's not a great experience But I think the worst part about this isn't that snaps are slow or snaps have all these other problems It's the response that conical has had to these problems Basically, they've looked at it at least up until the firefox debacle as It's good enough. It's going to be okay. You know, don't worry about it. It's fine Right. Who cares if you have to wait an extra 20 seconds for your app to load. It doesn't matter You know, we're using Awesome compression software to compress these things and you have to uncompress it in order to run it And that's the reason why it's slow and that's just the way it's going to be, you know They were very laxadaisical in their response to what a lot of people considered a huge problem And that response has kind of changed with firefox because they forced firefox into a snap for everyone And then when people complained that it was slow, they finally decided they had to make some changes Now I still think the firefox snap is really slow It's not as slow as it used to be when it first came out as a snap But it's still really slow. But at least they've at least now decided they're going to do something to fix that load time It took them so long though That lack of response and that lack of interest in making something better has severely cost their reputation And it makes them it makes it seem like they just don't care about the linux desktop at all And I think that that is the biggest thing when it comes to How ubuntu is perceived it feels like they don't care about the linux desktop and maybe for good reason it makes them no money all it is is a sinkhole and you know, they Are an enterprise company at the end of the day The desktop just does not play as much of a role as it used to their consumer aspirations in terms of trying to get ubuntu to Into the hands of consumers is they're all dead like the ubuntu phone is dead All the the convergent stuff is all this it's gone So all of their Focus now is on enterprise because that's what makes them money So anything to do with the desktop feels like it's kind of lagging behind and it's like a it's a Redhead stepchild or something like that where they just do not really care About it all that much in any effort that does get put into it is half-assed at best And you're probably asking well, what does this have to do with fedora? Well As people have moved away from ubuntu or have started to see ubuntu in a slightly more negative light They've been looking elsewhere for a different distro and fedora has because It is as I said very good And is well updated with not only the stuff that you'd expect but also new features all the time and stuff like that People will have looked to fedora and that's the reason why it has become a little bit more Popular over the last two years. Maybe not even a little bit more popular a lot more popular, right? so I think that those two reasons are really the reason why fedora has seen this surge in popularity especially amongst the the youtuber population Because a lot of the youtuber the linux youtubers out there They don't like ubuntu a lot of them really don't we have a lot of debbie and guys out there that really like debbie We have a lot of fedora a lot of a lot of arch guys, right? But there's not a lot of ubuntu linux youtubers out there There's probably a couple that I don't know about or I don't watch all that much of But for the best majority of the linux youtuber population out there, they're either using fedora debbie or arch and because that's true And because the reputation of canonical and ubuntu has kind of gone down So much amongst the the youtuber community Ubuntu doesn't get the favorable coverage that it used to whereas fedora has been seeing like one good release right after another And it just continues to progress into a really good thing Therefore it gets more popularity and more coverage and more positive coverage than ubuntu does And I think that's the reason why it has become So much more popular especially amongst the youtubers here So at the end of the day fedora is still my favorite distro now. I know that I have been made fun of a couple times because People didn't think that I would stick with it and that's something I'm going to hold over their head for a long time because I I have stuck with it fedora is still my distro It's on all of my computers and I'm very still very very happy with it Like I it's just a very very good distro and I'm glad that it's more popular than ever before So if you have thoughts on this you can leave those in the comment section below. I'd love to hear from you I'm sure that the ubuntu fans will hopefully crawl out of the The woodwork and tell me exactly why ubuntu is really good I'd love to hear from you guys as well because I'm sure that there are people out there that really like ubuntu I it just feels like there's less of them than before You can follow me on twitter at the linuxcast. 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