So you don’t have a reason, then? Figured as much.

Because what?

Why would they be wrong?

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Fedora’s always run really sluggishly for me on whatever hardware I’ve tried it on, so I don’t recommend it in general because my personal experience with it hasn’t been great.

Even ignoring this, I’m not sure I’d recommend it for beginners due to how it tends to jump on the latest hip new software. For some users this is a massive point in Fedora’s favour, but I’m not sure how much I’d trust a beginner to, say, maintain a BTRFS filesystem properly. Not to mention the unlikely, but still present, possibility of issues caused by such new software.

The first that came to mind is 100%ing the OG Crash Bandicoot on PS1.

Back when you could only get a level’s gem if you didn’t use a checkpoint.

It’s some sort of perverse arms race built around a shared lie we all pretend we don’t know about.

There’s a lot of that when it comes to work in general. It’s like it’s taboo to point out that the only reason people show up to their jobs is because they get paid for it.

…this looks like it was written by a supervisor who has no idea what AI actually is, but desperately wants it shoehorned into the next project because it’s the latest buzzword.

The first two Spice Girls albums are great.

Signed, a metalhead

Use Firefox.

Even the Android version lets you install uBlock Origin.

Musk probably wanted to make it @x42069.

How incredibly stupid the customers are.

I guess anybody who works in any sort of customer service gets this, but I swear to god, 90% of our customers can’t even fucking read - which is really bad when you work for an online retailer and most of your interactions with them are through email.

Gamedevs would prefer that one pirate the game outright than use shady key resellers.

Fedora was never that great to begin with

I always just found it to be really, really, ridiculously slow. I swear DNF might rival Windows in terms of update slowness and it seems to permeate the whole system.

This really feels like another one of those bandwagon pet peeves, like Comic Sans, pineapple on pizza, or toilet paper orientation. Like, if it pisses you off so much, then don’t reward the creator by watching their video. In fact, the addon kind of defeats its own purpose by making you more likely to do just that.

While I admit that the timing with Red Hat’s closed-sourcing is really bad, and I’m also going to start avoiding Fedora for the same reason, saying that opt-in telemetry (that one can literally read the source code of) is “putting dollars first” is really dumb. Do you think the same about Debian’s popularity-contest, which has existed since 2004?

This really depends on your definition of “stability”.

The technical definition is “software packages don’t change very often”. This is what makes Debian a “stable” distro, and Arch an “unstable” one.

The more colloquial definition of “stability” is “doesn’t break very often”, which is what people usually mean when they ask for “stable” distributions. The main problem with recommending a distro like this, is that it’s going to depend on you as a user, and also on your hardware.

I, personally, have used Arch for about 5 years now, and it’s only ever broken because I’ve done something stupid. I stopped doing stupid things, and Arch hasn’t broken since. However, I’ve also spoken to a few people who have had Arch break on them, but 9 times out of 10, they point to the Nvidia driver as the culprit, so it seems you’ll have a better time if you have an AMD GPU, for example.