A quarter century later, I’ve decided to re-join the Red Hat family and install Fedora tonight on my laptop with a clean install. Installing the LXQt spin, though I could go back to XFCE.

The last time I used Red Hat was so long ago that you still had to manually install RPMs and dependencies, though towards the end the yum package manager was an “emerging” technology. I switched over to Debian 3.0 Woody circa 2000, and then in late 2004 went to Ubuntu 4.10 Warty Warthog, which I’ve used various versions of Ubuntu over the years trough 22.10 Jammy Jellyfish. apt-get was such a step up from manually installing RPMs.

Why am I going back to Fedora/Red Hat after all these years? I am increasingly fed up with Ubuntu and the flatpacks and Ubuntu Livepatch. I don’t like how corporate Ubuntu has gotten in recent years, and the LTS versions of Ubuntu mean often my libraries are out of date for working with the latest GIS software — and the Ubuntu 6-month releases seem to traditionally be quite buggy.