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well, that didn’t go as planned: fedora 36 replaces ubuntu 18.04

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So I decided to try and update Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04. What could possibly go wrong? I won’t bore you with the details, but tl/dr, that didn’t turn out very well. As I wondered if I should try and debug the busted Ubuntu update situation I’d created for myself, my eyes fell upon the USB stick I’d flashed with Fedora 36 and that I’d used to update my basic build system. Why not try this again? After all I’d replaced Pop!_OS 22.04 with Fedora 36, so it should work just fine on this older Samsung notebook. What did I have to loose at this point?

And you know what? After trying out Fedora 36 in live mode (everything worked, especially WiFi), I installed Fedora 36 successfully. Right now I’m running a dnf update, which is going to take a bit of time to complete, as it’s roughly 1.1 GB of downloads. But I have plenty of time, patience, and bandwidth.

In the mean time I’m looking forward to working with the latest tools on a twelve-year-old computer. And it’s odd, but I’ve replace yet another Ubuntu installation. I wonder if that’s going to be the trend going forward for me.

2 thoughts on “well, that didn’t go as planned: fedora 36 replaces ubuntu 18.04”

  1. Some of the colleagues at my former employer preferred this to its “Enterprise” class brother distro which is developed from Fedora. And the former top Linux guy from c’t magazine in Germany who is doing some kernel development also swears on it. So lots of professionals are working with and for Fedora, can’t go much wrong with that one…

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    • I tend to agree with “can’t go much wrong” these days, but there was a period back in the late 2000s/early 2010s when Fedora was a hot mess to install and work with. That’s what drove me to Ubuntu at the time.

      These days Canonical looks to have abandoned the desktop for the server market, which makes sense if you need to make money to pay the bills. This is what Distrowatch had to say about Ubuntu 22.04:

      “I think the launch of Ubuntu 22.04 is a clear sign Canonical is much more interested in publishing releases on a set schedule than producing something worthwhile. This version was not ready for release and it is probably going to be a costly endeavour to maintain this collection of mixed versioned software and mixed display server and mixed designs for a full five years. It’s a platform I would recommend avoiding.”

      I agree with that conclusion. That’s why I’m restlessly looking at other distributions, especially Fedora.

      And while I can’t find the exact quote, I believe that Linus Torvalds uses Fedora for his development machine. My coming back to Fedora just goes to show that times are always changing, life is always in flux.

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