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Discussion on: Which Linux distribution is your favorite and why?

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Maxime Gaston

Fedora because each release has rather up-to-date softwares and mostly because it is the "desktop version" of CentOS/RHEL (and I used to work with a lot of those).

Like Ubuntu it provides various Desktop Environment versions called spins which is nice.

It uses rpm packages which I find more convenient than deb packages specially when it comes to making your own packages!

The Fedora project even provides an infrastructure you can use to make your own packages and have a repo for that : copr

They also provides "Third party repositories" that includes chrome, steam, nvidia drivers...

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Jean-Michel Plourde

I briefly used Fedora recently and I liked it. For some reasons, I had to reinstall my distro and went back to Ubuntu because I needed to fall back on my feet rather quickly. I might reinstall it before the beggining of next semester. I really liked the rpm packages and how there isn't ppa. Because let's be honest, Ubuntu ppa can sometimes be a pain in the rear.