While I hate this about myself, I tend to bounce around between distributions. I fully realize that this is helpful to those communities, but in my defense I don't move to something else because of a bug - it's actually more of curiosity in how someone else is approaching the Linux desktop. With that disclaimer out of the way...

I have a soft spot in my heart for two distributions:

• Fedora
• Ubuntu

Fedora via the Redhat boxed set was my first installed and working Linux system - and my word did I ever feel like I entered a whole new world when I purchased that! Ubuntu was something that someone just recommended in passing as they found it so easy to install and use, so I downloaded an iso of Ubuntu 6.06 found that it was so user friendly and brown!

Fast forward to today and I still use one of those two distros on my personal machines. You might think, look just stick it out with one of these and stop wasting time. That's what a reasonable person would do, but that's not what at stake here. I think the reason that flip back and forth this that I like to learning and force myself to try new patterns or at least see if I can work inside another desktop environment, set of management tools, configuration files, and the like.

On to Ubuntu 24.04 then... The first impressions are quite good with Ubuntu 24.04. The fonts are wonderful, the installation is clear in both presentation and feedback, the installed product (when choosing a minimal install) was perfect to get started. It really is a wonderful Linux for both seasoned vets and newbies with extensive help through things like Ask Ubuntu. While Fedora's mindshare has increased significantly, Ubuntu still seems to be the default Linux for a number of projects that new and old users will be looking to utilize.

My only minor issue with Ubuntu is the software available in the App Centre. There is a good selection in the repository, but some applications are rather out of date when compared with Flathub offerings. This is not a Ubuntu issue necessarily as projects and vendors could package their applications up and submit them to the Snap Store, but it appears that more are doing that for Flathub in the Flatpak format. For me, once I installed the needed things for installing flatpaks, I had all the applications I needed for Ubuntu 24.04.

Finally, I have no metrics on this but 24.04 just feels faster than Fedora 40. Perception does matter over reality in this case...