59 engineers on Hacker News describe using Fedora first-hand: 17 endorse it, 6 regret it, 7 are mixed.
“For laptops, I've routinely had issues in the past where Fedora or Mint wouldn't work ootb when Ubuntu did.”
regret · personal · queenkjuul · 2026-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When I've tried other distros over the years, the issue you described has happened to me on: Fedora”
regret · personal · newsoftheday · 2026-10-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Fedora is also a good choice based on the last few years of running it on various laptops.”
endorse · personal · cyphax · 2026-01-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“After that I switched him to Fedora, and he's been running that now for a few years and didn't even realize I had changed his underlying OS.”
endorse · personal · freedomben · 2026-01-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“they've consistently delivered an "everything works out of the box" experience with Ubuntu and/or Fedora”
endorse · personal · 15 yr · andreashaerter · 2025-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“all I can say is they're much, much better than "normal" distros.”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · dismalaf · 2024-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Fedora since version 16 and I had virtually zero issues.”
endorse · personal · 13 yr · random42_ · 2024-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I recently downloaded fedora onto a desktop and it has been a horrid experience.”
regret · personal · TrueSlacker0 · 2024-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've had friction in the past with Fedora and Arch on Dell because it takes 6 to 9 months for all the drivers to make it upstream”
regret · personal · freedomben · 2024-05-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Fedora or Redhat for a long time, and I'd rather not switch, but these driver issues make the system unusable.”
regret · personal · webnrrd2k · 2023-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I switched from Win to Fedora Workstation on laptop 2 years ago. And I'm not regret this decision.”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · t0bia_s · 2023-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Fedora Silverblue is probably one of our favorite Linux distributions nowadays.”
endorse · personal · LoganDark · 2022-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I moved 100% from Windows 11 to Fedora 37 and it's been a delight.”
endorse · personal · jug · 2022-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Fedora was more work through rpm fusion but I also got a better experience and even managed to use Wayland.”
mixed · personal · doodlesdev · 2022-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Silverblue is great, my only regret in my own install was not adding more storage.”
endorse · personal · aliqot · 2022-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we moved off Fedora some time ago, for exactly this sort of reason”
regret · production · zh3 · 2022-04-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Fedora server to good success.”
endorse · personal · second--shift · 2021-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“on a Thinkpad X1 Yoga 4th gen with Fedora 31 atm. I can't remember the last issue I had.”
endorse · personal · INTPenis · 2020-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I run Fedora in prod sometimes when I need fresh packages... Fedora wouldn't be all that bad in prod”
endorse · production · freedomben · 2020-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using this as part of Fedora (25 - 27) for the past year on a Dell XPS 13”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · antongribok · 2017-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Fedora since version 17 on my T530 and using fedup to upgrade without issues.”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · LaSombra · 2014-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The continual update process is starting to feel like a treadmill... sometimes the version updates break a lot of things.”
mixed · personal · 4 yr · cestes · 2014-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Fedora (VM, test, production server) since release 4 or 5. Overall, I'm satisfied.”
mixed · production · 8 yr · rogerthis · 2013-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Fedora/CentOS ok but has the 'wrong packet manager'”
mixed · personal · johnsea · 2013-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“development/experimentation is a lot easier on the Fedora machine, because the whole OS is actually built around the concept of a sane package manager”
endorse · personal · cheald · 2013-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Fedora since well before they dropped the "Core", but F18 might just be when I jump to Arch.”
mixed · personal · jlgreco · 2012-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's broken in many places. But it might be Fedora's fault, didn't try it on any other distro.”
mixed · personal · rplnt · 2011-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Fedora KDE since fall 2009 and personally haven't had any problems with stability.”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · sho_hn · 2011-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Absolutely painful to run an integration test or development mode though. Probably just my fault for using Fedora”
mixed · personal · nckbz · 2011-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Fedora since the early days, when it was still called Red Hat (Red Hat 6 was my first one) and it's a really great distro.”
endorse · personal · DrJokepu · 2010-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Even on linux/fedora/kde it can drive UI apps a and take screenshots and fix things properly etc.”
neutral · production · BatteryMountain · 2026-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“On my Fedora system, /usr/bin/cd is just a shell script that invokes the shell builtin”
neutral · personal · jasomill · 2025-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I do a lot of work supporting Fedora”
neutral · production · richardfontana · 2025-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“use docker (podman and distrobox on fedora)”
neutral · personal · robador · 2024-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Ubuntu and Fedora and I LOVE the simple and straightforward Gnome shell I have on both.”
neutral · personal · rbanffy · 2024-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our engineer with Fedora+Framework gave it up as it started burning him (2nd degree)!”
neutral · production · 2 yr · tomrod · 2024-01-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“if I were to re-image that computer I'd probably go back to either Fedora or Ubuntu.”
neutral · personal · starttoaster · 2023-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been on Fedora for the last 2 years and Wayland has also been fine.”
neutral · personal · 2 yr · yoyohello13 · 2023-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I installed VSCode as a snap on my Fedora install and it worked fine as far as I could tell.”
neutral · personal · hollerith · 2023-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“as well as user desktops (e.g. Ubuntu Desktop, Fedora, etc).”
neutral · production · veidr · 2023-07-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm using Fedora 36 which ships gcc (GCC) 12.2.1 20220819 (Red Hat 12.2.1-2).”
neutral · personal · javierhonduco · 2022-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use Mac, Fedora and Ubuntu, and just sync my projects across all machines with local virtualenvs”
neutral · personal · rcarmo · 2022-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I run Fedora for the majority of the time”
neutral · personal · Delk · 2021-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Fedora with Systemd since a few years now.”
neutral · personal · zodiakzz · 2021-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I do that sometimes on Fedora when I'm testing a driver I maintain.”
neutral · personal · freedomben · 2020-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was running a newer version of Gnome on Fedora 31”
neutral · personal · therealrootuser · 2020-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Then I tried Fedora, or Redhat, I don't remember when that split was.”
neutral · personal · bwanab · 2020-08-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Based on experiences with Arch, Debian 10, Fedora 31 beta”
neutral · personal · orhmeh09 · 2019-10-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“breakpoints occasionally not firing even when running Linux (Fedora 25 in this case)”
neutral · personal · justinclift · 2017-08-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Fedora is targeting 64 bit server-class hardware, which is on its way -- in production as we speak.”
neutral · personal · rwmj · 2016-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Coming from Mac OS, or even Fedora, Elementary seems unpolished and unstable.”
neutral · personal · INTPenis · 2016-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Fedora is my primary desktop. Been using it since Fedora 7.”
neutral · personal · 7 yr · ishbits · 2014-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Moved to Fedora, then Ubuntu, and then finally to Debian.”
neutral · personal · omerhj · 2014-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“on the Fedora desktop I play around with (my main dev machines are Macs)”
neutral · personal · stephen_g · 2014-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the sysadmins often run Fedora”
neutral · production · eitally · 2014-04-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Redhat/Fedora/Ubuntu on and off for the last 12 years or so”
neutral · personal · 12 yr · wyuenho · 2012-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When I compare all of this to the laptop I use at work, a Dell running Fedora, there is no comparison.”
neutral · production · demallien · 2012-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Fedora 13 for a while and was interested to give Fedora 14 a whirl.”
neutral · personal · rworthington · 2010-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?