I used Ubuntu since 11.04. I abandoned it for Fedora.
Everything about Ubuntu now is seemingly defined by a spirit of defiance from Fedora. They borrow PipeWire and SystemD, but uglify GNOME, replace Flatpak with Snap, and use *.deb instead of *.rpm. Otherwise it feels mostly the same.
I looked at the Fedora ecosystem and... it's basically just like Ubuntu's point versions, and instead of an LTS every 2 years, you get one every 5 years and it's called Rocky Linux / AlmaLinux. Why pick Ubuntu instead of (basically) upstream? I'll pick the same thing with prettier GNOME and Flatpak instead of the weird mystery lump Ubuntu is now.
Everything about Ubuntu now is seemingly defined by a spirit of defiance from Fedora. They borrow PipeWire and SystemD, but uglify GNOME, replace Flatpak with Snap, and use *.deb instead of *.rpm. Otherwise it feels mostly the same.
I looked at the Fedora ecosystem and... it's basically just like Ubuntu's point versions, and instead of an LTS every 2 years, you get one every 5 years and it's called Rocky Linux / AlmaLinux. Why pick Ubuntu instead of (basically) upstream? I'll pick the same thing with prettier GNOME and Flatpak instead of the weird mystery lump Ubuntu is now.