With Fedora 18 release in Jan 2013, I see increase in interest on Fedora distros in my friends circle. Almost everybody wants to know between Fedora and Ubuntu - who offers better proposition? Well, honestly, there is no straight forward, definitive answer and both command a significant number of dedicated users. As you see, both Ubuntu and Fedora gives birth to scores of derivatives and are held in high regard in the Linux world. Ubuntu itself is derived from Debian and Fedora from Redhat. In this article I attempted to document and compare my experience with both the distributions and I leave it to the readers to decide.
I pick here Fedora 18 Gnome, KDE, XFCE and LXDE to compare with Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Lubuntu (all 12.10 release). The reason for me to compare all 4 desktop interfaces is to make holistic comparison. The results showcased here are based on my testing, done between Nov'12 to Feb'13 on my Asus K54C laptop, Core i3 2.2 Ghz processor with 2 GB RAM. My assessment is based on Installation, Aesthetics, Hardware Recognition, Applications and Performance. Intentionally, I exclude the repository here as majority of the commonly used applications have both deb and rpm versions.
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