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Why did I switch from Fedora to Ubuntu after 2 years?

I have used Ubuntu from year 2006 and left in 2022 for Fedora. Now, it is time to go back.

Can Artuc
7 min readOct 7, 2024

After 16 years of using Ubuntu, I said enough and switched to Fedora. The major reason was Canonical’s approach to Ubuntu all these years.

I will remember all these controversial decisions and map them into a timeline based on online resources. I may be wrong about the timeline, or my source may be wrong about the years, but the topics are not. These actually happened, and I was a very active member of the Ubuntu community.

Everything started in 2010 with Unity desktop. It was the first time Canonical stopped listening to the user base and began to decide themselves. I was not against Unity and was in a tiny group of people who liked it. Still, I was very much against putting an immature desktop environment into a mature Linux distribution. In 2010, Ubuntu was years ahead of other Linux distributions on desktop environments and servers. Although I like Debian more on the servers, I know from…

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Can Artuc
Can Artuc

Written by Can Artuc

Data and AI Architect, Dad, Geek

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I'm just the opposite. I've been running Fedora on my laptop and my home machine for over a year now and am perfectly fine with the number of updates. I'm not a developer, other than dabling, but I am a SysAdmin. In fact it is because of the number…

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I've been a Ubuntu user for a while until they introduced Unity. I disliked it a lot. In addition, Ubuntu distros started to become fatter and fatter as time goes.

I then gave a try to Mint (back in its version 8 if I remember correctly). And I…

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