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The original was posted on /r/fedora by /u/d3vilguard on 2023-12-13 19:09:09.

Long story short, I got a dell latitude 5480 for my dad to browse the web. Didn’t want to install Windows on it but also didn’t want to install a distro that is too up to date. As I’m familiar with Arch, Fedora and Opensuse I thought that opensuse leap (being close to SLE) would be the best candidate. It also comes with plasma 5.27 which was required for me. Well, had multi-monitor issues, it refused to acknowledge BT speakers as an audio device (codecs were installed). Installed kernel 6.6.6, same. Ok, going to the next stable - Debian. Well debian failed to boot into a gui after install. Both Debian and Leap had major problems with the i915 driver. Ok, next inline as a stable base - Kubuntu LTS + 5.27 backport repo from them. Multimonitor issues on Wayland, problems with X. At the end of the day threw tiny11 (script that cleans win 11) on it. Laptops works fine. So got myself thinking, Fedora was working fine on my gaming rig, is running fine on my own latitude, why not put F39 KDE on a usb and see the dad’s latitude with it. Bamm, everything works out of the box. Main reason to not go fedora in the first place was because I wanted to throw something and leave it be without much updating.

Why is this rant about? I don’t remember an instance when I booted fedora and something was wrong. On the contrary I remember cases of things not working with a majority of other distributions. I think this has a major role on linux adoption. Fedora is an enterprise level product and you just can’t go wrong with recommending it. It’s awesome!