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It crushes me, CRUSHES ME, that the wretched Fedora beats my beloved openSUSE Tumbleweed in popularity! Why, oh why!??!
Seriously though, why do people prefer Fedora? I used it for 2 years and was very, very happy after switching my daily driver to Tumbleweed. It felt faster, had better repos, defaults, stability, etc. — aaaaaand it's rolling release, which is so much easier (ironically) from a stability perspective (every, EVERY, Fedora release something would break for me, gosh-darn-it). I just don't get it; am I the only one experiencing this?
Most of it is historical momentum. Regardless of relative quality, far more people try Fedora and so far more people stick with it.
As for Tumbleweed specifically, many people do not like rolling distros. I do.
I tried openSUSE a few months back because I wanted to be more closely associated with SUSE than Red Hat (I had to update to a new RHEL release at work about a year ago and really hated some of the shit they were pulling).
Here's a list of issues I had:
Now, all of these I problems I could probably fix. But it just wasn't really worth the effort when my main issue was: "The downstream company associated with my Distro did some dumb shit that doesn't really impact my system."
My 2 cents. I started with Bazzite and switched to Fedora after some things broke. Fedora works for my use case and I don't see any reason to switch further. Even upgrading from 40 to 41 worked without hickups.
I'm surprised bazzite broke
I like Fedora because it’s a very forward focused distro, pushing things like Wayland and btrfs instead of clinging or dragging their feet like some other distros. I used OpenSUsE on my desktop towards the very end of my time with KDE but when I decided to switch to Gnome I stuck with fedora since it was what I had been using on my laptop for a while.
I will concede I rarely had a clean upgrade when new releases of fedora came out, but since I switched to silverblue that’s a thing of the past :)