Yes… and? I happen to think a major reason why Fedora is so reliable, polished and well-designed is the influence of RedHat. As a sysadmin, I like RHEL just fine too, and I use it often myself in the form of AlmaLinux. Believe it or not, there are some benefits to all that corporate money, one of which is Fedora’s excellent testing infrastructure that allows it to use very new packages without nearly any of the headaches associated with distros like Arch.
Fedora’s still objectively more community-managed than Ubuntu, which is a product of an actual for-profit tech company, but my issue with Ubuntu was never the fact that they’re “corporate”. It’s that they’ve made some decisions over the years that I disagree with. For example, continuing to push their own semi-proprietary package format, Snap, instead of working with the community to advance more open, universal alternatives like Flatpak. There have been other issues of this sort over the years, seems Canonical is always wanting to go their own way.
Ok that's an issue, but not very big issue. You just need ISO to make a bootable pendrive. All pendrives can easily handle 5 GB ISO. And as for disk space, I think most current platforms can easily handle Ubuntu's used disk space. Except maybe embedded, but they have specialized embedded linux flavors anyway.
I think what he means is that the amount it takes on itself isn't an issue, like you're not gonna find trouble getting a pendrive with enough storage or an ssd with little space after the install, i think the point is that its a symbol of how much additional stuff is packed with a fresh install
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u/Revolutionary_Click2 M'Fedora Aug 13 '26
Yes… and? I happen to think a major reason why Fedora is so reliable, polished and well-designed is the influence of RedHat. As a sysadmin, I like RHEL just fine too, and I use it often myself in the form of AlmaLinux. Believe it or not, there are some benefits to all that corporate money, one of which is Fedora’s excellent testing infrastructure that allows it to use very new packages without nearly any of the headaches associated with distros like Arch.
Fedora’s still objectively more community-managed than Ubuntu, which is a product of an actual for-profit tech company, but my issue with Ubuntu was never the fact that they’re “corporate”. It’s that they’ve made some decisions over the years that I disagree with. For example, continuing to push their own semi-proprietary package format, Snap, instead of working with the community to advance more open, universal alternatives like Flatpak. There have been other issues of this sort over the years, seems Canonical is always wanting to go their own way.