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by vetinari 1229 days ago
Fedora, while very nice, goes too fast. Basically as fast, as the non-LTS ubuntu releases. Ubuntu has the LTS option, for Fedora, that LTS option was CentOS and today Rocky/Alma.
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Fedora is supported for 1 year. Ubuntu non-LTS is supported for 9 months.

Subjectively Fedora has a far more robust updater and just higher quality releases in general IME.

9mo vs 1y is not a much of practical difference.

With the rest, I agree. I run fedora on my desktop, but I would not use it for my parents, for example. Even with LTS, they were complaining that it changes all the time.

what about centos stream?
If it works for you, why not. Just be aware, that the point releases did have breaking ABI changes, and now they can happen randomly, without waiting for point release.

Since I used the old, non-stream centos, the changes left some bitter taste. Enough to prefer alma.