Make sure to check out some other articles on Ubuntu and Fedora, such as how to manage your Fedora system with Cockpit, how to install fonts in Ubuntu 20.04, and how to fix the no-sound issue in Ubuntu.Making sense of the open source enterprise Linux landscape can be a tall task. Both are solid, dependable distros that will serve you well in your daily tasks. Hopefully, this article served to highlight the similarities and differences between the two distributions. Ubuntu: Which One is for You? That is entirely up to you.
That is quite extraordinary and serves to credit Fedora with rock-solid releases and good engineering. I have heard reports of people running OS upgrades from Fedora 24 all the way to 31 with nothing breaking on the system. However, in Fedora's defense, system updates and OS upgrades are very smooth and have very little downtime. These LTS releases are supported by Canonical for five years, making it potentially a superior choice for consistent, reliable access to the same environment and tools. Ubuntu, on the other hand, has the option of long-term support (LTS) releases. Fedora has a much faster release cadence, with new releases every six months. This is one of the things that begins to separate the two distributions. The UI feels snappy, applications open quickly, and they are both excellent systems to use. Otherwise, the performance of both distros is very good. This allows for better longevity of an SSD that has Fedora 32 installed on it, making this a potentially better choice for Fedora systems installed on SSDs. This makes flash-based storage devices use available blocks more efficiently for better wear management and efficiency. The other is that SSD Trim is on by default in Fedora 32 via FSTRIM. 500 MiB RAM can be a lot on systems with little RAM, but if that is a particular concern for you, I would recommend one of the many Fedora Spins or Ubuntu flavors. However, I think personally that Fedora's management of RAM with EarlyOOM more than makes up for this. I have 789 MiB RAM usage on Ubuntu and 1.2 GiB RAM usage on Fedora in two identically-provisioned machines. In terms of RAM usage on a fresh boot, Ubuntu uses significantly less. I recommend listening to this podcast episode from Linux Unplugged where they put EarlyOOM to the test. To be brief, EarlyOOM is a much more aggressive out-of-memory killer than the one that's in the Linux kernel and has a huge impact on low-memory systems and on systems that have memory-intensive applications. The first is EarlyOOM, an early out-of-memory killer that's baked into Fedora.
However, there are two primary differences that help Fedora take the lead. You can see the slight theming differences on the Lock Screens below.īoth distros have excellent performance. However, Fedora uses a very vanilla version of GNOME Shell, down to the default Adwaita themes and applications. On the newest versions of both distros they use GNOME Shell 3.36, but Ubuntu has specific theming that gives it the signature look. There are also differences in the implementations of GNOME Shell.
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(Read their differences here.) Canonical's Snap Store is not fully open source, but all of the Flatpaks and GNOME Software (which is used as the GUI front end for Flatpaks on Fedora) are all open source, as per Fedora's philosophy. They do both have a universal package format that they're rallying behind, but Ubuntu is using Snap packages, and Fedora is using Flatpaks. This means that packages meant for one will not be available for use on the other. One of them is the package systems they use. There are some key differences in the Fedora vs.
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