Trying Out Fedora Workstation 43

Fedora Workstation 43 is installed on my X1 Carbon Gen 6, and it's been running smoothly for the past day.

I installed Fedora on my laptop last night on a whim. Although Arch and Debian-based systems are indeed cool, in a production/workplace environment, Red Hat distros are the prime choice because of their ubiquity in said environments.

I do not have much experience in enterprise Linux distributions, so I figure that Fedora is a good place to start.

Overall, just in the past day, I would say that I already like it.

Package Management and Applications

The package manager philosophy is pretty cool, from what I understand about it. The distribution uses DNF as a high-level "helper" package manager, with its low-level package management being RPM. Yay is to pacman what DNF is to RPM, which is what I figure is a decent analogy for Fedora's package management system. An interesting fact about Fedora is that one corporation (Red Hate) is responsible for backing this open-source software, so I think that is pretty cool.

Fedora is meant to be a good balance between cutting edge like Arch, while remaining relatively stable like Debian.

The installer is great as well. It's super fast with a simple GUI.

As a former Ubuntu user, I will say that Fedora has been smoother and a better experience for me.

I feel that Ubuntu has too much bloat for a standard user, with multiple applications for updating and downloading software, while being visually cluttered.

Although they are both using the GNOME desktop environment, I think that Fedora just does it better. It's just more streamlined and lightweight. It feels more complete, and not a collection of awkwardly-fitting software puzzle pieces.

I think that most people agree that using flatpak over snapd to manage and install applications is better as well.

I don't have much more to say about it, as I've only used it for about 3 hours total. I seriously think this distribution is one of the best out-of-the-box GNOME experiences you can get right now.

Gooba.