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what is overrated about them?
Ubuntu, ootb works, but snap all over, and ubuntu pro ads everywhere.. I can't even reinstall the company laptop into Fedora because of their policy... In the end I wrote a piece interface cli to make me felt at home using dnf masking apt, flatpak masking snap, and any dnf or flatpak behavior, works on snap or apt.. it's nightmare, but at least help me coup with using ubuntu... cope.. COPE...
Okay, but what is "overrated" about them? I don't like Ubuntu either, but I don't think it's overrated. It just is where it is
Easyness, where it's not. Fedora is better for noobs than ubuntu in my opinion.
If you're arguing for ease of use: they're pretty much on a par with each other. If you're arguing for ease of software installation I'd prefer Ubuntu over fedora, as Ubuntu is still the first linux distro any proprietary software company will port their software to (even though it's gotten better over the last few years), which is probably the only thing the average user cares about: does my software run or not?