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The original was posted on /r/fedora by /u/gproenca on 2025-01-23 16:37:05+00:00.

its a bloody pleasant surprise ! what a polished and updated distro !

I've used few distro's but never went the Fedora/RH way - mainly because I'm used to Debian and Debian derivatives.

Used Ubuntu at home for a while but disliking the snaps thing A LOT and the way Canonical tries to force me to use it - and for an novice user like me, its a mess to have some stuff on snaps and other not.

So I'm using for a couple of years Debian in a server at work where basically deploys a few php apps for few hundred users but while stable, bit of workarounds here and there because some stuff required more updated stuff and LTS this and that.

Toying with putting a second partition on my Windows PC at home with Linux, because honestly, getting fedup with Windows.

I have to keep it due to some programs ( Lightroom / Phocus ) and no, Darktable and GIMP are not viable options :) and gaming.

So I've seen the resurgence of gaming on Linux and Fedora always comes out as the best distro for doing so - no surprise, its updated constantly.

Decided to install Fedora on a VM, never using it before - and tried to replicate my production server - getting services, configuring firewall, apache, php, mysql ( database is a few years old, based on mysql and while mariadb is this and that, got already 1000' of headaches trying to convert mysql->mariadb ) installing cockpit, metrics, few addons.

Oh my... it was surprising easy.

I had always some kind of problems installing Cockpit on Debian and for the life of me and reading 3000 pages, never got around the metrics to work reliably.

Fedora ? read manual, install. done. presto.

dnf for the win, goodbye apt and things seem more "organized" and logic - cant put my finger on it.

So downloaded Fedora Workstation and again on a VM, installed it and my my - what a lovely cohesive thing.

Liking a lot so far, so will install a second boot partition at home and most likely will turn my production server to a Fedora Server - afterall, its a local network only, not "connected to the internet" thing, so while has some firewall rules and protection against idiotic users, the risk is low.

What a nice distro ! really liking it !