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easily fedora
>no snap bullshit
>adopts new good features while mostly avoiding slop (rustutils, shit like that)
>fairly secure out of the box (selinux,firewall,rootless containers on podman/toolbox,immutable versions that just werk)
>most of the ubuntu ecosystem is focused on the 24-mont-releases where's fedora mostly revolves around the 6-month-releases, quicker new packages
>plasma desktop as a flagship and not a secondary 'flavor' or 'spin' like ubuntu
>dnf mogs apt
>kernels and sometimes the desktop gets updated even inside the 6m window
the only reason i'd consider running ubuntu (maybe as a multi-boot setup) is its better supported in some places , in some programs/SDKs/things where there's barely any linux-related instructions if they support one distro its typically ubuntu and that still has momentum as the 'default' distro but almost anything that has instructions for more than one distro also supports fedora+arch. also on any fedora install you can just run
toolbox create --distro ubuntu --release 24.04
and you have an ubuntu shell for running shit that requires ubuntu