"For the most part I believe there are four key reasons for this shift away from running Fedora-based projects and toward Debian, Ubuntu and Arch. One, and perhaps the most obvious, is that people don't make full, independent projects based on Fedora because people who like working with Fedora create spins or labs which are incorporated in the Fedora infrastructure. If you want to throw together your own spin of Fedora with a different desktop, theme, and tools, then you can create a spin and host it with the Fedora project. Fedora Workstation, Server, Silverblue, CoreOS, and over a dozen spins & labs all live together in the same infrastructure so people don't think of them as separate projects."

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"In summary, I'd say that Fedora lost its position at the top of the market share charts. Then people who were using it found that, as a base, it either moved too quickly (for people who wanted long term support releases) and too slowly for people who like rolling releases. At the same time Fedora's infrastructure hosts multiple projects (over a dozen) which, in the Debian and Arch families, would be set up as entirely separate projects with their own websites and project names. This makes Fedora's share of current distributions smaller and to appear even smaller than it is."

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