Switched to Ubuntu

I have switched my EEE PC 701 to Ubuntu. I had been running Fedora 10 before that but I was disappointed when preupgrade did not seem to work. So as Ubuntu was very nice in my Virtual Box setup at work, I installed that instead of doing a clean Fedora 11 install.
One thing that had impressed me was that Ubuntu had handled the 8.10 to 9.04 upgrade seamlessly in my Virtual Box setup. It even had offered to upgrade while I was updating packages.
This, I think, is representative of the difference between Fedora and Ubuntu. The goals of Ubuntu are clearly defined and it's easy to tell when they fail: if it's not easy and seamless, they failed and they have to fix it.
For Fedora on the other hand, the target audience is less clear (power users, developers, people who want the bleeding edge, users of Red Hat Enterprise at work etc.) and I tend to think that the distinction between Red Hat Enterprise and Fedora adds to the confusion. As a result, it's less clear what a release should look like and what is more important: convenience for existing users or new features and improvements.

In the case of the upgrade to 11, the Fedora site even had a page telling me I should reinstall cleanly instead of upgrading. Quite the contrary of Ubuntu trying to lure me into upgrading and making it much easier and more natural than reinstalling.

This does not seem like much but that's how I ended up abandoning Fedora. That was not easy as I always liked Fedora and I prefer rpm over dpkg any day.

I wonder if and when I'll go back to Fedora. Any way, I thought it was good to write all this down, so that I can look at it again when I switch distros. I guess I am in for a good laugh when I read this post again ;-)