I'm sure there are opinions both ways. I think the reason Fedora is the headline is because it is the more recent addition. Lenovo has had an Ubuntu option on some machines for a few years now. Fedora is a fairly recent addition.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago

Generally yes

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ubuntu fucking sucks, every distro is better than Ubuntu

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm using Linux mint, I think it's build on Ubuntu. It's all i know, but I hear arch is awful for beginners.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ubuntu is based on Debian so regular Mint is actually 2 levels down from upstream. But Mint has started offering a Debian base recently called LMDE if you want to check it out.

As for whether Arch is bad for beginners. Kinda. It's a DIY distro, assuming you can follow tutorials and guides it's pretty straight forward, especially with the archinstall script. But if you're uncomfortable with a terminal install, you can try out EndeavourOS which features a full gui install and a few tweaks to make it easier on beginners.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago

I'm not unhappy.

[–] Allero 3 points 1 week ago

Mint attempts to reverse questionable changes made in Ubuntu, which makes it good again

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

It depends. In my experience it’s less stable but has newer packages.

[–] cevn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I switched a while go and haven’t regretted it.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Yes

It has more up to date packages (while being reasonably stable), their implementation of gnome is essentially vanilla so its easier to build off of as a base (unless you like Ubuntus extensions and fonts but tbh you can always add those yourself)
Their KDE edition (starting from the recently released version 42) is no longer a spin so it should get as much attention as Workstation (Gnome)
DNF is arguably much better than APT and especially with the new improvements its seen
Fedora handles snapshots much better (btrfs)
There are more extensive third party repos on fedora
They dont shove snaps down your throat

[–] Allero 2 points 1 week ago

I currently main Fedora. It is reasonably stable and reasonably cutting-edge. I'm happy about it.