Fedora

Reader supplied reviews for Fedora Average rating 8.3 from 474 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on Fedora? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- rawhide43424140393837363534333231302928272625242322212019181716151413121110987654321 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 42 Rating: 7 Date: 2026-04-22 Country: France Votes: 0 Fedora has a great out of the box experience! I'd say better than Ubuntu. The way the OS is presented to you and the ease of installing software is all very straightforward. You can install steam in one line in the terminal. That's impressive. Proprietary drivers are easy to get (just a box to check in the installer, I'm sorry Richard Stallman but I need my hardware to work). And the way they've embraced flatpak has really made it even easier to get software. My main gripe with Fedora is that (at least on my hardware, AMD 7640U) it seems that sometimes updates come too soon. I had so many GPU driver regressions I had to learn how to downgrade both the kernel and the amdgpu drivers. They at least have good documentation on how to switch between various kernels and they keep a couple kernels automatically so you can revert if needed. But this just happened way too often to make this enjoyable. The update from Fedora 43 to 42 was pretty seamless (good documentation), but the regressions were unbearable (even though I waited a couple months after the initial release). Overall Fedora is probably a great experience for some. I think its really hardware dependent. And you may need to be ready to revert some updates, but overall a pretty solid distro. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 43 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-04-22 Country: Azerbaijan Votes: 1 Works out of the box, even with my backed up settings from a different distro and desktop environment, that is—Pop!_OS (an Ubuntu derivative) with Cosmic. I remember the last time I ever used Fedora was more than 15 years ago, and I had a very awful experience and stopped touching it since. This time though I can see a lot of positive improvements, especially in terms of seamless integration of GNOME, KDE Plasma and other desktop environments. Also, Fedora seems to be very friendly in terms of development, as it allows to use different programming languages to program for it. Unlike my previous experience with the latest Pop!_OS 24.04, which limits user experience to Cosmic and Rust as its main programming tool. Great and highly recommended! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 43 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-04-09 Country: United States Votes: 24 Finally, Fedora has made it into the 21st Century with 44-Beta! I started using Fedora in 2011 as my daily driver, but around 2013 it took a turn for the worst, and started to fall behind other distros like Mint, Ubuntu, Manjaro, and many Debian derivatives. When Fedora 43 was released I decided to revisit this legendary distribution and was mildly surprised. With 44-Beta, Fedora performs like the best of them, even MX-Linux. It's easier to install, with very few bugs, has a solid and stable software installer, easily connects to WIFI and printers, and is now even LIVE. Who thought that would ever happen? Fedora now feels, performs, and looks professional grade, and office ready. Congratulations to the Red Hat team and Fedora for returning this legacy operating system to its past glory. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 474 reader reviews of Fedora...