Arch vs Fedora

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Fedora is one of the most popular Linux distributions. It is developed by Red Hat and was originally intended to be used for testing new programs before they were integrated with RHEL. As such, Fedora tends to adopt unstable and untested software such as PulseAudio before most other Linux distributions. Fedora is also very adamant about leaving out copyrighted software patents and copyrighted software in general. Because of this, it doesn't have many media codecs (such as MP3, WMA, etc) out of the box. However, there are other unofficial repositories that provide such software.

Arch Linux is a Linux distribution with a K.I.S.S. philosophy. Because of this, the basic Arch system doesn't contain any sort of Graphical User Interface, but simply leaves the user at the command line. This allows users to install only the software that they want.

Fedora generally works out-of-the-box with a wide variety of hardware and software, requiring little configuration from the user. Arch Linux is aimed at users who want to choose their own software and configurations before using the operating system - generally it is not suitable for inexperienced Linux users.

Arch Linux uses a "rolling release" model while Fedora uses a "stable release" model, meaning that the Fedora operating system needs to be explicitly upgraded to the latest version. Fedora users, however, should update their packages whenever possible to keep up with the latest bugfixes. Arch Linux releases new packages shortly after their upstream release. In order to keep up with all the latest releases, Arch Linux users need to update their system much more frequently.