What makes them great, again?
Here at Linux Format Towers we’re always recommending both Ubuntu and Fedora, but sometimes we forget why…
There’s a school of thought that states Linux is also all about choice. Then again, there’s also the website http://islinuxaboutchoice. com which says different (and in very large blue letters, too). Hearsay and single-page websites notwithstanding, users certainly do have a choice about which Linux distribution to use. And sometimes that choice is difficult.
Ubuntu is often classed (along with its derivatives Mint, Pop!_OS, elementary OS and Zorin OS) as a beginner-friendly distro. Fedora, by comparison, is seen as a testbed for new (and especially Gnome-related) technologies that’s more suited to intermediate users. But this definition isn’t entirely fair. A beginner (with just a little bit of luck and no Nvidia hardware) would probably get on just fine with Fedora. And if they don’t then it’s unlikely they’d fare much better with Ubuntu, where the only obvious user-facing difference – an Ubuntu-themed dock on the left-hand side – is unlikely to provide any kind of moral support.