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Bruno Paz • Edited

Love this kind of posts.

I think I am using almost all the tools you mentioned ;)

Tilix is really awesome and I think not that well known compared with Terminator for example.

I am currently using Ubuntu 18.04 as my OS but I am planning to buy a new Laptop and I am thinking if I should keep it or try something new.

I like the stability of it but would prefer a somewhat faster release cycle. (without compromising too much the stability).

How is your experience with Fedora and how you compare it with other distros like Ubuntu? I see someone mention Manjaro in the comments, which is a distro I am also considering.

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Deepu K Sasidharan

When I switched from Windows I started with Ubuntu but after six months I switched to Fedora and never looked back. Personally I had many quirks with Ubuntu and also the slow release cycles were annoying. Fedora has been super stable for me so far. Every version update has been problem free(except you have to update the gnome extensions sometimes) and fully automatic

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Jean-Michel Plourde

Try Fedora. It's like Ubuntu but some details are making it, imo, better. Like getting rid of those PPAs.