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Just switched to Fedora and I'll share my experience

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The original was posted on /r/fedora by /u/Global-Eye-7326 on 2025-01-25 04:40:01+00:00.


Hey. Linux user since 2007. I used Ubuntu, then Xubuntu, then Kubuntu (as well as Manjaro), been using OpenSUSE but finally switched to Fedora (running KDE Plasma with Wayland). I also experimented with Mint and Rhino Linux and hated both.

  • Package management is fairly straightforward. I was happy to be able to enable Snap for the odd app that I grab through Snap that isn't in Flatpak. Flatpak enabled by default is cool, but why is it a customized Fedora Flatpak rather than use the entire Flatpak repository that's typically available to other distros?
  • I'm a longtime user of FeatherNotes and not about to give it up. Had to install from scratch, but was nicely documented on GitHub so I was able to install it nicely
  • I was able to run a live session before installing, which was nice. I noticed that the Fedora repos are very good. Aside the overlap of Gnome Suite, Fedora Suite, a bunch of web browsers and LibreOffice, apps that are in Flatpak are typically not available in Fedora's repos (although these apps are often available in Debian/Ubuntu repos or the AUR)
  • I've never seen Wayland with Nvidia to be THIS stable. I was able to run Playstation/PS2/PSP emulators ON WAYLAND and it's stable. Unreal! Fedora is simply putting other distros to shame!
  • Connecting my phone via KDEConnect and adding my wifi printer was super easy in Fedora. KDEConnect is blocked by default in OpenSUSE's firewall (I was able to solve that), and I couldn't figure out getting wifi printing to work and even gave up
  • In KDE Plasma, I found it annoying that the shake cursor was enabled by default. Fortunately it was easy enough to switch it off
  • Discover handles system updates fairly nicely

If Fedora isn't the best distro to use with KDE Plasma, Nvidia and Wayland, then obviously I don't know what is.

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