At home, I run Fedora, CentOS and Raspbian. At work I run RHEL for production and lab, and CentOS on my workstations.
Started with Red Hat 5.2, loved 7.3 and 8.1, then switched from RH8.1 to Fedora Core 3, and used Fedora up until version 19, After Fedora 19, I got sick of all the stability problems with Fedora, and I jumped ship to avoid the stability issues, systemd
, and Gnome 3. Kicked the tires on Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Arch, Debian, and Gentoo. Either disagreed with them politically (Ubuntu) or didn't have that kind of time to waste on a workstation, and ended up with CentOS 6.Just switched my laptop from CentOS 6.7 to Fedora 23 MATE spin two days ago because I was sick of having to custom-compile updates on CentOS in a laptop/workstation environment just to have modern versions of common software (OpenSSH, PHP, Apache, Postfix, MariaDB, etc., etc., etc.). Who has time for maintaining that? Still running CentOS for all my home servers with add-on repos though as that's definitely its wheel house.
So far Fedora 23 MATE spin is rock solid. Fedora has definitely dealt with all the stability problems that was plaguing Fedora 18-20, although the new installer is still lousy in comparison to the previous Anaconda. It has been improved from its original release though. I am not a fan of user-space firewall
, so I ripped firewalld out and replaced it with netfliters' iptables, made some other tweaks, and thus far I'm very impressed.