You want an honest answer? Fedora was never that great to begin with and went down quite a bit in quality since the whole patent debacle. I had to switch distros when Mesa was constantly breaking. Also, untested kernel updates would remove HDMI audio (and despite a fix being available they waited a crazy long time to push it) among many other things

Tumbleweed is just plain better.

I’ve been using Fedora and haven’t encountered any of the issues you mentioned. To me it’s always been rock solid.

I personally found Fedora to be rock solid, and along with Ubuntu provided the best hardware support out of the box on all my computers - though it's been a couple of years since I used it. I did end up on Ubuntu non-LTS in the end as I now run Ubuntu LTS on my servers and find having the same systems to be beneficial (from a knowledge perspective).

Very strange, I am using Fedora as my daily-driver since about 6 months now, and I had none of the issues you mention. Rock solid experience so far.

Rock solid on my 11-yo laptop that has been running fedora and updated every 6 months since I bought it in 2012.

I've always updated late in the fedora cycle - maybe that's the go.

Anecdotally it seems to be an unusually bad phase, lots of people reporting problems since kernel 6.3 ,then there was the bad ostree update (which I don't think was exclusive to Fedora).

I have enough years of good experience with Fedora to know that's not normal and confidence enough to stick with it.

I'm using fedora as my work system, because I have a relatively new laptop that needs the new kernels. Haven't experienced anything you're describing. Are you on fedora regular or on sliverblue (the immutable version)? If you're having issues running the newest kernel, follow the fedora documented way to build and run your own. I did just that when needed a prerelease kernel and it worked out fine. I usually upgrade to a new release by the end of the cycle, so that the new version had 6 months to mature. I never immediately upgrade.

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.

Kubuntu is very stable. love it

Other users are also reporting such issues.

Since kernel 6.3 my laptop would only boot 1/10 times. After a week of not turning it off, I finally moved back to Arch.

Back in my distro-hopping days, I found it be unstable both when updating and in day-to-day use. Updates broke it and applications regularly crashed.

The fedora 37 and 38 livecd's have a bug that prevents them from being bootable. So when I wanted to install fedora on my laptop I had to start with 36 then upgrade to 37 then to 38. No other distro has had this problem.

Yes.

Fedora is the new Ubuntu

Fedora is older than Ubuntu.

I always found Fedora to be a little unstable for my work use. I switched to CentOS because of that, and that was truly rock solid. I even used CentOS Stream for a while (but switched to Alma and Rocky eventually).

Also on AMD APU hardware, I was a while on Kubuntu with 5.15 as 5.16 and 5.17 had pretty frequent regressions regarding s0ix, but it was fine afterwards. Until now, though 6.3.12 seems to be somewhat stable again

There are LTS Kernel from Red Hat Employee, you can install it via https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/kwizart/kernel-longterm-5.15/

If you really need that in long term, well, give him some coffee via paypal, haha...

JK, but it's the well known long time best LTS kernel repo in copr. Just not directly endorsed by Fedora as fedora is bleeding edge, when it mean bleeding edge, then any kernel update could break the driver, as the driver is built in into the kernel.

I'm a Debian user. No worries if you get no updates...

Fedora 30 - 36 were phenomenal releases and I mostly used them, recommended them elsewhere.

I had to start using the Spins because the default GNOME desktop is just becoming unusable. Stripping functionality to make it prettier, not fixing longstanding issues.

Then Fedora had that kerfuffle with the licensing issues with codecs, and I couldn't play a certain type of HEVC video that the vast majority of my video library is encoded in.

Then, more recently, I had issues with Python in their repos. That was the last straw. I'll definitely check it out again in a few years to see if they've fixed a lot of these problems, but I wouldn't recommend the distro in its current state.

I've been using fedora since 32 and I'd say this is a bad phase. I have heard time and time again that opensuse is more stable tho

I run fedora since some months on my Framework laptop, I suspect my SSD is making some issues. It was really bad when I was on arch and fedora is pretty okay? I still goz a system freeze (no tty even) yesterday.