Thanks for the A2A.
I’m sorry, but I feel tempted to ask you, if you are kidding. What is “the major difference” between Fedora and Arch? Fedora and Arch Linux are like day and night. They are VERY different! There are TONS of differences.
Fedora… think about the name and meaning of it for a second… has been forked from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to keep the server operating system clean and stable. Read, “forked from a niche Enterprise level server operating system”
Fedora basically has the support of Red Hat. Arch Linux doesn’t have any backing.
Arch Linux on the other hand is an independent distribution that has been inspired by Linux From Scratch and is primarily being used on desktop. The FAQs actually state, that it has no specific purpose and can be used according to desire, as long as the user builds it this way.
The primary purpose of Fedora for example is neither desktop nor server use, but DEVELOPMENT for both. It’s basically a live testing environment for (Red Hat) developers.
Fedora uses .rpm packages, Arch Linux uses tarballs (tar.xz) for package management.
Fedora uses yum and dnf for package management and Arch Linux uses pacman for package management.
Fedora uses Gnome as primary user interface and Arch Linux is a do-it-yourself-from-scratch distro that starts out in the console.
Fedora offers limited hardware support and Arch supports a wide variety of hardware.
Fedora implements new technology VERY early and Arch Linux uses the newest stable options.
For example, Fedora has implemented Wayland back in 2016 as default display manager. Which is still barely used by other distributions, because it’s not mature enough. It’s IN DEVELOPMENT. Canonical has already stated, that Wayland won’t even be default in the 2020 LTS version.
Fedora uses a version system with short release cycles and Arch Linux is rolling release.
In Fedora descriptions you will find, that because it uses new technology very early, according problems have to be expected. The basic Arch system is known to be highly reliable and stable.
I just got lost in the process. But I guess, by now you are getting the point. The two are vastly different from each other and serve completely different purposes.
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