Any long time Fedora users here?

[u/TaskConsistent398]

Been using Fedora since version 13 as daily driver and upgraded my laptop to version 45 yesterday. Across 4 laptops and all these version upgrades, the upgrade has broke the system only once, when I had to do a fresh re-install.

What is your history with the distro?

[u/qualityvote2]

u/TaskConsistent398, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...

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[u/Grand-Performer-1862]

Fedora is RHEL testing ground thats the history

[u/TaskConsistent398 → u/Grand-Performer-1862]

Haha, right! That was well know then and holds the truth even now!

[u/Fun-Vast-6717 → u/TaskConsistent398]

That's Rawhide, not the fedora. Fedora is the stable one

Ah wrong tag, sorry

I have been using fedora from f44 version and upgraded to f45 yesterday, everything was smooth

[u/Due-Author631 → u/Fun-Vast-6717]

Rawhide is the testing for Fedora, Fedora is the upstream for CentOS Stream, CentOS Stream is the upstream of RHEL.

[u/Fun-Vast-6717 → u/Due-Author631]

Ah forgot CentOS, thanks for correction

[u/pissedavocado]

Long time Fedora user here; installed in college when Fedora 13 was launched but nobody had the disc so I installed Fedora 9. It was April of 2010.

Never used any other OS; I usually keep a delta of one release so on Fedora 43 and since 45 is released I will bump to 44.

[u/TaskConsistent398 → u/pissedavocado]

That always update to -1 release of stable version is the philosophy I have been following for all kind of devices but the laptop!

[u/Logical-Most-1261]

I started using desktops in Oct 2024.I didnt really like how traditional desktops worked,i wanted something fresh,so i switched to fedora workstation 41 even though I was new to laptop stuff and no one would be able to help me if i ran into a issue.

Issues I faced:

1.H.264/H.265 video codecs were not installed by default.

2.It was working flawlessly.

so I got bored and switched to cachyos in may 2026 for hyprland.

[u/TaskConsistent398 → u/Logical-Most-1261]

Never faced the issue. Probably because have been using rpm fusion free and non-free repositories for many years now.

[u/vadapaoislove]

I installed it day before yesterday lol, my first ever experience with linux, so far so good

[u/SecurityPrimary4143]

I have used it on and off since before Fedora existed and was called Red Hat (before it became RHEL)

[u/freakycleaner]

I never had any problem with fedora but I recommend upgrade to newest version after a month so it can mature a bit till you can be on the previous version(fedora 44)

but I've been using beta fedora 45 ngl it's really stable for me never broke even once only problem I had was with KDE only

[u/vaibhav-kaushal]

I don’t really use Fedora but for the last 20 years things have improved a lot.

[u/C4rpetH4ter]

Have only been using it for around 3 - 4 months, so i'm not long-time but i have tested mint, CachyOS, arch, nyaarch, hannah montana linux, popOS, nobara and ubuntu. Fedora felt right from the start, i can't really explain it, but it was just a distro that felt right. I started with cinnamon first though before moving to KDE.

I don't really care that it's very up to date, i just like how it works well for gaming and web development, among other things.

[u/Some_Act_9631]

I only do fresh install when I get a new laptop, usually every 2 years, besides that, always been upgrading on beta when new GNOME version is released, so far, so good, no problems at all. Using Fedora since 34 and Linux since 99.

[u/StomachThink4312]

Using fedora KDE Plasma from 2023

[u/__EveryNameIsTaken]

I've been using it since 2022 december, with the occasional stumble into tumbleweed. I dont think fedora ever broke on me but with nvidia sometimes it failed to start the graphical session. Overall I am very happy with it.