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The original was posted on /r/fedora by /u/n988 on 2024-11-01 22:38:02+00:00.

Hi there,

I’ve been looking for a distro that has two important to me features - an up to date version of KDE Plasma and good Wayland support. I’d be using Mint, but the lack of Wayland and therefore proper fractional scaling(for now) is a dealbreaker. So far, I’ve narrowed it down to Fedora, openSUSE and Arch.

Fedora is an interesting choice, I like how they quickly adopt new Linux technologies which is a major selling point to me - I believe desktop Linux improves at a rapid pace, so being on a distribution like that means I can enjoy the benefits quicker.

Though, I have a few worries about Fedora. Their marketing on the website doesn’t feel right to me, it seems more of a distro centered for software development rather than a distro for average users. Nothing wrong with that, but I can’t help but feel like I’m not in the target audience for Fedora and that it could cause issues down the line. Probably unjustified paranoia, feel free to talk some sense into me. What I want is a no-fuss distro that has up to date packages for casual use.

Another thing is Fedora seem to ship only free software by default. I know that RPMFusion solves this, but I don’t feel too sure about relying on an external repository for all my non-free software needs. Is it really okay or am I overthinking again?

A final maybe nitpicky thing I have that isn’t exclusive to Fedora is font rendering. Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distros have the best font rendering from my experience, no other distros come close to it despite my various attempts at messing with environment variables and what not. Could Ubuntu-like font rendering possibly be achieved on Fedora?

Thank you :)