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Discussion on: Is Ubuntu Or Fedora A Better Distro For Programmers?

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Steve Pryde • Edited

I use Manjaro and have done for the past 2+ years. I previously used Arch for years before that, but I would see probably 1 or 2 major breakages per year (remember the glibc update?). Manjaro delays updates for 2 weeks allowing for those major breakages to be resolved before they reach users. Also Manjaro has a much nicer installer, and a little more polish. It just works, and I haven't reinstalled in a very long time (it's rolling release).

Ubuntu, ironically, used to become a little less stable for me after a few version updates. It wasn't terrible - actually it is still probably my goto distro for just getting something up and running. I've had a lot of trouble with Fedora - F28 was great but the upgrade to F29 just broke everything. I used OpenSUSE a long time ago but these days it feels too customized and unstable. Tumbleweed did not work for me at all. I used to distro-hop a lot but since switching to Arch and then Manjaro I don't like the others as much. That said, if things started to break with Manjaro I would search elsewhere.