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> In an case I disagree totally with the assertion that Fedora isn't good at upgrades between versions.

Same here. I think that changed somewhere around Fedora 15, though. Prior to that it was a minefield. That's probably why it has such a bad reputation among those who've not tried recently.

My current desktop workstation started out at Fedora 14 and now sits at 31. It's gone through multiple motherboard and component upgrades over that time, too.



I said RHAT family, but honestly I did not mean to include Fedora. I've been upgrading my Fedora Core desktop since probably 26, it's not the machine that gets the most use, but it works at least as well through upgrades as the Ubuntu and Debian systems that I maintain.

But none of my servers run Fedora. I still think that the core use case for Linux is servers. (And that's not to say my servers couldn't run Fedora... but it so happens the OS distribution that we use at my $dayjob is usually Centos or Amazon, sometimes RHEL, occasionally Ubuntu, but for some reason absolutely never Fedora.)




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