I am curious what the similarities are between Fedora 33 and the newly released Mageia 8, and what the differences are. Today's release announcment of Mageia 8, alleges that it ships with three repositories, one of which is disabled. One of their repos contains non-free stuff, and can be disabled. The disabled one contains the controversial codecs which may be illegal in your country. I recall someone suggesting that Mageia can ship their iso that way because tjey are in France. I do believe that the developmemt team at Mageia is only about 30 volunteers. From my perspective, they do not use third-party repos. Right ? I assume Mageia's core repo is not as up-to-date as Fedoras. I assume Mageia 8 is way behind Fedora 34 Beta. It would seem to me, that if a user prefers LXDE, or LXQt, or Mate or Xfce or a window-manager, that it would not matter what distro you choose. I do not think Mageia has Budgie DE. Mageia only offers one iso, where as Fedora has custom isos. Right ? Meaning, in order to get Mageia 8 LXQt, you must first install Mageia 8. I think a newbie could learn on Mageia 8 and then later on learn to prefer Fedora. Right ? I assume they do not use anaconda as their instllaler, but have something that the old Mandriva had. Feel free to enlightmemt me. Cheers, David Locklear