Yeah tbf I only use Fedora for VMs and to recommend to non-technical people so I'm not the best judge of its quality. But my experiences of it have been smooth + no complaints from the non-technical folks I've recommended Fedora to who have gone through and installed it.
The other OSes that come to mind when I think of well-crafted OSes are Alpine Linux, OpenBSD, and maybe Void Linux, but here "well-crafted" does not mean they appeal to the same audience or fill the same niche as Fedora haha. I guess I can see how Debian is doing these days for next time a non-technical person asks me for a Linux distro rec.
Yeah tbf I only use Fedora for VMs and to recommend to non-technical people so I'm not the best judge of its quality. But my experiences of it have been smooth + no complaints from the non-technical folks I've recommended Fedora to who have gone through and installed it.
This has been my experience more or less for the past decade. I moved to Gentoo on my desktop in 2020 so I could have better control of all the bells and whistles (trying to balance web dev, game dev, ham radio, astronomy, CAD/CAM, GIS, and gaming on one machine), but up to today Fedora has been what I run on anything I don't want to fuck around with (like a laptop that I want to stow for a couple months, update the night before a trip, and not deal with any bullshit when I should be packing). I've also set it up for a few coworkers in addition to my brother, and they've been fine. I was truly shocked to hit so many problems in the installer this go-around. It is very uncharacteristic of my experience overall.
Yeah tbf I only use Fedora for VMs and to recommend to non-technical people so I'm not the best judge of its quality. But my experiences of it have been smooth + no complaints from the non-technical folks I've recommended Fedora to who have gone through and installed it.
The other OSes that come to mind when I think of well-crafted OSes are Alpine Linux, OpenBSD, and maybe Void Linux, but here "well-crafted" does not mean they appeal to the same audience or fill the same niche as Fedora haha. I guess I can see how Debian is doing these days for next time a non-technical person asks me for a Linux distro rec.
This has been my experience more or less for the past decade. I moved to Gentoo on my desktop in 2020 so I could have better control of all the bells and whistles (trying to balance web dev, game dev, ham radio, astronomy, CAD/CAM, GIS, and gaming on one machine), but up to today Fedora has been what I run on anything I don't want to fuck around with (like a laptop that I want to stow for a couple months, update the night before a trip, and not deal with any bullshit when I should be packing). I've also set it up for a few coworkers in addition to my brother, and they've been fine. I was truly shocked to hit so many problems in the installer this go-around. It is very uncharacteristic of my experience overall.