My very first Linux operating system was Ubuntu. I switched from Windows to Ubuntu when I was in university. At that time, I felt like it was a whole game changer. Everything was and is easier on Linux starting from installing packages, setting up path environment, updating packages and software...etc. All I need is: sudo apt-get ....
It's true that Ubuntu was quite famous among newbies to Linux's world. To be fair, a lot of articles often refer to Ubuntu when referencing Linux (if you notice :)).
And for the majority that is into the command line, of course, they have Arch Linux. That's all I knew back then and probably most newbies nowadays as well.
I have switched to Fedora and I am happy about it. But before Fedora, I also used RHEL for quite some time.
Honestly, I don't notice many differences between all these Linux operating systems.
I like Fedora because it has a very fast-growing environment. Its open-source community is huge and strong. Okay, but this article is not only about Fedora and neither Ubuntu. The purpose is to invite everyone to explore the rest of the Linux operating systems and dive more into the open-source community.
Let me at least link to some useful articles/documents:
- Fedora: https://fedoraproject.org/
- CentOS Stream: https://www.centos.org/centos-stream/
- RHEL (downstream of Fedora): https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux
- Debian (IMO, very similar to Ubuntu): https://www.debian.org/
- Arch Linux: https://archlinux.org/
And here is the list from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions
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