What’s wrong with Fedora Linux?

efore a half year I discovered a Linux distribution called Fedora. https://www.academia.edu/33805399/Die_Anti-Rell_Verschw%C3%B6rung (Essay in German). Until this date, Fedora and Red Hat were for me nearly unknown. Not Linux in general, I had experience with the operating system since many years, but this special distribution runs under my radar. The question is why? A short look into the Linux conferences, the podcast, the printed magazine and the overall Linux culture are demonstrating the reason. Because Red Hat is the big unknown not only for me but for everybody. Let’s take a look into the official Wikipedia article which can be found under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux and which generates 4600 hits per day worldwide. Red hat is mentioned in the text but only as a subparagraph. And most people who are using Linux actively as an administrator never had contact with Fedora in detail. It seems, that the complete ecosystem around Linux sees Red Hat as the elephant in the room. Everybody knows that he exists, but nobody is talking about it.

From a technical point of view, Fedora is the most stable Linux distribution which was invented ever. It has the best security patches, is for free for the home user, brings support for the major opensource applications and Linus Torvalds himself uses the system. On the other hand, the system is nearly unknown in the community. It is hard to find a programmer conference where somebody is using the system. Instead most people who are talking about Linux in public are using Mac OS X or Windows 10. A minority is using additional Ubuntu for demonstrating how the systems looks like. So we have a perfect Fedora Operating system, but a missing community. I’m even unsure, if an online forum exists, perhaps there is one out there, but a reference manual in German is definitive not available.