The Ubuntists, or why I chose Fedora
Today, there was an interesting but controversial article in my RSS feed: Fedora is the new Ubuntu. You should read it before you continue. This is the perfect moment for me to talk about why I chose to use Fedora instead of the universally loved Ubuntu distribution…first of all, I want it to be clear: I tested Ubuntu 7 and 8 beta and I’m not a sectarian.
The first point that made me chose Fedora is what’s perfectly described in the linked article: Canonical doesn’t contribute to the whole Linux ecosystem enough. On the other side, Fedora/RedHat is a HUGE contributor (as is Novell/SuSE by the way).
The second point has more to do with human feelings…particularly arrogance. Since some time, a small group of people using Ubuntu started hating/flaming other Linux users if they don’t use their beloved distribution, and that’s really sad. You can clearly see it on forums (French formus at least). You are not helping your distribution, nor Linux in general by behaving this way!
A much more recent event just happened yesterday during a PHP lesson at school; I’m using Fedora as my development environment, and the teacher is using Ubuntu. He constantly came to me, to tell me how superior Ubuntu was, and that I should switch…blablabla. This form of zealotry really annoys me…Hey! We are all Linux user, so let me chose!