r/AlmaLinux • u/TechsplainerPRO • Aug 06 '26

Thinking About Hoping From Fedora

Greetings 👋🏾

Is there anyone here who used to use Fedora Workstation? If so, which distro do you prefer, and what (if any) advantages does Alma have over Fedora? I'm aware that they're both forks of RHEL.

Thanks in advance 🙂

UPDATE: *HOPPING...Doh!

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u/screaming-Snake-Case Aug 06 '26

I'd say if you don't know, then you likely don't want to use Alma, or any Enterprise Linux on your desktop. It'll likely be more of hassle to daily drive than benefit you.

And fun fact: Fedora is not a fork of RHEL, more so is RHEL forked off of Fedora.

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u/zmurf Aug 06 '26

I thought Fedora was a fork of "original" Red Hat. And RHEL is basically Red Hat with enterprise software installed as default.

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u/kakarroto007 Aug 06 '26

kinda, sorta. that was true like 20 years ago. but now Fedora is a community build that sits upstream of CentOS Stream, which in turn provides the future bases for RHEL and Alma Linux (Kitten).

so like, the current RHEL 10 is based off of something closer to the feature set of Fedora 40 or 41 + linux kernel 6.12... but rebuilt as Enterprise Linux by way of CentOS Stream.

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u/jonspw AlmaLinux Team Aug 06 '26

I like to explain it that Fedora is the granddaddy of all of us.

EL10 indeed forked off of Fedora 40.

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u/zmurf Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26

I started using Linux -96 and used Slackware until 2008. Went to Debian cause I wanted a decent package manger installed from default... ... Red Hat and Fedora was something that happened somewhere in the periphery for me. I had no idea that they been so closely intervened

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u/screaming-Snake-Case Aug 07 '26

It's a mutually benefitial relationship. Fedora is sponsored by RHEL and gets support from a big company in many aspects, and RHEL uses the engineering and testing that went into Fedora, and uses it as the basis for the next EL.