Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

[Tom H]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Digimer <linux at alteeve.com> wrote:
> On 04/16/2011 09:14 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>>
>> I have been using Ubuntu for a couple of years, and I am increasingly
>> unhappy with it. I dislike the Ubuntu One integration, I think upstart
>> is irritating, and I am sick of my bug reports vegetating forever in
>> Launchpad. Therefore I want to switch distributions, and I have already
>> narrowed it down to either Debian unstable or Fedora (but a release, not
>> rawhide).
>>
>> Unfortunately I have a hard time deciding between the two, because I am
>> very much biased by the fact that I have already used Debian in the past
>> and a lot of experience with it. So I invariably come up with random
>> nice Debian features which then turn out not to exist in Fedora. But on
>> the other hand, all the nice Fedora features that Debian can't offer are
>> unknown to me.
>>
>> Hence, to allow me to make a good decision, I would be very happy to
>> hear about your favorite Fedora feature that I would totally miss if I
>> went with Debian.
>>
>> Just to be clear: I am *not* interested in starting a Debian vs Fedora
>> thread here. So am only asking for your pro-fedora points, so there
>> shouldn't even be the possibility of a flamewar :-).
>
> Debian unstable is still a server-oriented OS, so you will be missing a
> lot of modern toys. Fedora is to RHEL/CentOS as Ubuntu is to Debian;
> Desktop-focused vs Server-focused, respectively.

Debian unstable isn't just for servers! You can use any number of DEs.

I prefer Fedora because I prefer the default look and because I feel
more comfortable with the "original" Mozilla applications.

Otherwise i find them to be pretty much the same with one exception.
The pace of updates of Debian unstable slows down as a new Debian
stable's about to be released and it then accelerates too quickly
after the release (and you have to hold off on dist-upgrades so as not
to break your install).

If you're a KDE user, you might want to try aptosid. It's based on
Debian unstable (it used to be called sidux).