I switched from Fedora to Ubuntu in 2007, so that was a while ago. I was tired of yum breaking stuff, which happened a lot. I don't know, maybe it doesn't do that as much now? Apt (esp. w/ aptitude, rather than apt-get) is, in my experience, a better package manager. Consequently, ubuntu was just more stable, mostly, and, I believe has more pkgs available (not sure on that one). The ubuntu release schedule makes little sense to me, though. And, now, I'm primarily using Debian (although still have ubuntu on my laptop due to better support for some hardware). Ubuntu is better at keeping updated/current with new software than Debian, but debian is rock solid, and I feel like it doesn't try to make as many decisions for me as ubuntu does (don't want hand-holding). Of course, you asked about ubuntu, not debian. Ubuntu is good. Debian is my fave, but given the choice between Ubuntu and Fedora, I'd pick Ubuntu. I used RH then Fedora from about RH7.1 until...whichever fedora was around in 2007.
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I was tired of yum breaking stuff, which happened a lot. I don't know, maybe it doesn't do that as much now?
Apt (esp. w/ aptitude, rather than apt-get) is, in my experience, a better package manager. Consequently, ubuntu was just more stable, mostly, and, I believe has more pkgs available (not sure on that one).
The ubuntu release schedule makes little sense to me, though.
And, now, I'm primarily using Debian (although still have ubuntu on my laptop due to better support for some hardware).
Ubuntu is better at keeping updated/current with new software than Debian, but debian is rock solid, and I feel like it doesn't try to make as many decisions for me as ubuntu does (don't want hand-holding).
Of course, you asked about ubuntu, not debian.
Ubuntu is good.
Debian is my fave, but given the choice between Ubuntu and Fedora, I'd pick Ubuntu. I used RH then Fedora from about RH7.1 until...whichever fedora was around in 2007.