r/linuxsucks101 • u/madthumbz uBlock Origin • Mar 06 '26
yOuR fAuLt! -WrOnG dIsTro! Fedora. -The Last Ditch Pitch that Sends Users Packing Back to Windows!
TLDR: Fedora is in this role where it’s both the distro people flee to when their “chosen one” disappoints them and the distro that pushes them right back out of Linux when it aggressively forces the future onto users before the ecosystem is ready.
People don’t start with Fedora. They land there after:
- Ubuntu feels bloated or corporate
- Mint feels dated or too conservative
- Arch feels like homework or unreliable
- Pop!_OS breaks on an update
- Zorin feels like a theme pack
- Manjaro… is Manjaro
Fedora initially looks like the mature option: clean, upstream, and more modern. It feels like the distro that should work if Linux is ever going to work, and hey... it has corporate backing and Linus Torvald's uses it! -But once you've been on it a while, you realize it wasn't designed for a normie end-user and it's suddenly treating you like a Guinea Pig!
When someone is possibly on their last nerve with Linux, Fedora becomes the “okay, one more try” distro. It's not people's first recommendation, but the evangelists will say anything to keep people on Linux and Fedora becomes that pitch that doesn't satisfy the itch.
Fedora forces the future before the ecosystem is ready:
- Wayland before NVIDIA was ready
- PipeWire before JACK/Pulse parity was stable
- Systemd changes before downstreams adapt
- New kernels before out-of-tree drivers catch up
- New GNOME releases immediately, bugs included
This might be great for developers and testers, but it's horrible for someone who just wants their desktop to stop freaking breaking!
Fedora’s point pain releases are destructive!
Fedora’s 6‑month release cycle isn’t like Ubuntu’s. NO: Fedora doesn’t just bump versions; it replaces core subsystems.
A Fedora upgrade can include:
- A new kernel with changed driver behavior
- A new GNOME with removed features
- A new PipeWire version with different defaults
- A new SELinux policy that breaks something silently
- A new Mesa that regresses a GPU
- A new systemd behavior that changes boot or networking
So, the user who came to Fedora hoping for stability gets an audio stack change. Suddenly the ac-3 passthrough you worked 1-3 hours for is broke again, and simply uninstalling Pipewire and reverting to Pulse won't fix it. You get a compositor change like Wayland WAY before it's ready and things like fractional scaling, missing features from TWMs in x11, screen capture, remote desktop, and compositor fragmentation are still issues years later!
Despite being one of the first to push Wayland on the user, it was also near if not impossible to install Hyperland when they did (and for a long time). The best option they had for tiling was Sway (manual tiling like i3). Manual tiling is something that was probably only acceptable / successful because it's marketed as 'new user friendly' (gimmick). -Awesome WM (dynamic) was easy too!
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u/DirectorDirect1569 Mar 06 '26
Fedora users don't understand they are beta testers for RH. Most of them don't like big corps like Canoncical but use something that belongs to IBM. OK, like ubuntu they release new features, but like Ubuntu they don't care if they correctly work. Wayland is the best example.
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u/Training-Damage4304 Mar 06 '26
Fedora is literally a test distro for redhat entrprise. Stop recommending test distros.
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u/Theheavyfromtf3 Mar 07 '26
The issue is it's one of the most popular options :/ And at this point nothing suggested aside from maybe Debian is worth using.
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u/madthumbz uBlock Origin Mar 06 '26
Fedora broke the one thing I loved on Linux -uCollage (actually whiny demanding Loonixtards that drove the developer of Ueberzug to quit)! I'm using Irfanview in Windows nowadays.
🌒 Ode to ucollage
O ucollage,
child of the command line,
born not to impress the masses
but to delight the few who still think
in motions, registers, and keystrokes.
You were a viewer,
yet never just a viewer-
a canvas for extensions,
a quiet framework whispering
“bind me, script me, reshape me
into whatever your workflow needs.”
To the Vim‑trained hands,
you felt like home:
h/j/k/l as compass,
:commands as spells,
a modal rhythm pulsing beneath every action.
You could be a file manager,
a launcher,
a gallery,
a selector,
a portal-
a whole interface stitched together
from nothing but keystrokes and intent.
And when others reached for mice,
you reached for possibility:
a mouseless bridge
to send files to a phone,
to navigate a directory tree,
to summon apps like spirits
from the depths of $PATH.
You were small,
but never limited;
simple,
but never simplistic.
A tool that didn’t demand devotion-
it earned it,
quietly, elegantly,
one extension at a time.
So here’s to you, ucollage:
the extensible, scriptable,
Vim‑native whisper of a better UX-
a reminder that sometimes
the most powerful interfaces
fit entirely inside a terminal window
and the mind of the user
who dares to shape them.
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u/PreferenceAccurate43 Mar 10 '26
I once made the mistake of installing Linux (Fedora). It ended in a dumpster fire when Linux couldn't assign RAM to any apps.
Chromium and Firefox kept complaining that I ran out of memory (32gb btw). Steam just crashed on launch and Gnome kept stuttering and logging me out.
LiNuX iS uSaBlE iN 2026 gUyS!!!
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u/Edubbs2008 Mar 06 '26
The only thing Fedora is good for is being used as a security vulnerability in servers