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Is there a reason to pick Fedora over Ubuntu?
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the corporate side of Red Hat is far less evident on Fedora than Canonical’s on Ubuntu
vanilla UX
Atomic editions
fast yet stable updates
more lightweight ISO
it also has disadvantages, specially for nontechnical folks
Fedora is a semi-rolling release distribution, so this isn’t really a problem for a desktop or laptop. It’s really an advantage for desktops and laptops.
A lot of software is packaged as a Flatpak image, so less of a problem then it used to be.
If you want LTS, you would pick something like RockyLinux. They offer support for 10 years per release.