I was on Ubuntu for a year. No major issues, although I used the interim releases, which are supposed to be less solid than LTS. Then, a couple of months ago, I decided to switch to Fedora, just out of curiosity. Many people stated how Fedora is rock solid, Fedora is the new Ubuntu, etc. First some rpmfussion updates broke mesa, then the ostree update broke Flatpak, and recently there was a broken kernel 6.3.11 update that affected some AMD users. A few days ago, I updated my kernel to 6.3.12, and I got frequent freezes on boot. Other users are also reporting such issues. So now I boot with an older kernel. Which is not optimal. There is no LTS kernel on Fedora, the old kernel version doesn’t receive security updates. Was it always like that, or it’s an unusual bad phase.
If you want to continue using Fedora try Kinoite or Silverblue. With their immutability and ease of rollback, I’ve really enjoyed using Fedora again.
Fedora Silverblue is basically my ideal distro. Used it for the past two years on all my machines.
Shame about the telemetry stuff and RHEL bullshit… Jumped to Debian 12 and haven’t looked back.
I thought I’d try workstation yesterday with a new machine after being on SB for the last 2 years. Trying to get the nvidia binary turd running was such a disaster, I’m going to try Pop today. I would try SB again, but RHEL paywalled all of the nvidia documentation for RH, and all documentation from Fedora and nvidia is for F37 or older and does not work. I could not get the blob working in the kernel. Maybe there is a way. I’m sure others have managed as I’ve seen Stable Diffusion telemetry that shows it, but the documentation path to get there is broken. Also the methods needed when following documentation are all the reasons I got on an immutable distro years ago; it is such an impossible mess and dependency nightmare.
I never had an issue with an i7 4k machine, but my new 12k is not doing well either, although my issues are likely bugs in the kernel itself related to laptop firmware.