Life’s been great for me since I’ve moved primarily over to Fedora from Ubuntu as of I think version 36. Fedora always had this (unwarranted) reputation for not being stable, but it’s been by far the best Linux laptop experience I’ve had outside of Ubuntu in the early days (10.04 LTS was the GOAT for me back then) Haven’t tried openSUSE yet tough, pretty happy with Silverblue.
The problem is the word stable is confused with “doesn’t break” rather than the actual meaning of “software versions don’t change, fixes may/may not be backported.” Debian isn’t any more or less “stable (in the doesn’t break sort of way) than most any other distro, but it is in fact more stable (as in software doesn’t change) than Arch or Fedora.
As a community we need another term to define a stable (unchanging) distro.
Just noticed this comment two weeks later. I will say that I absolutely love Fedora on my Intel NUC. Works great with the hardware, it supports Secure Boot, and dnf is a very tight package manager.
The problem is the word stable is confused with “doesn’t break” rather than the actual meaning of “software versions don’t change, fixes may/may not be backported.” Debian isn’t any more or less “stable (in the doesn’t break sort of way) than most any other distro, but it is in fact more stable (as in software doesn’t change) than Arch or Fedora.
As a community we need another term to define a stable (unchanging) distro.