I had a chat with my Finnish friend who was visiting Budapest and Sziget. We were naturally comparing it to Finnish rock festivals. I used to visit Ilosaarirock couple times, Provinssirock once and then some smaller ones.

And there are differences. The first one is alcohol policy. You are not allowed to bring your own bottles in the Finnish festival area. Inside area there are fenced places to buy and consume beer and cider. You can imagine farmer's pig pen to get the idea. No strong alcohol sold usually and there is a mighty gatekeeper checking that you do not smuggle your drink outside restricted area.

In Sziget you are not allowed to bring your own palinka from your uncle's garage but once you are inside you are not controlled like cattle. You can get your drink from numerous places inside festival area. They sell those in plastic cups so they are not considered to be lethal so you can carry your beer everywhere. Apparently Hungarian adults are responsible enough not to pass beer onto kids.

Then another difference is the amount of clashes between people. Even though Sziget is huge, the security was not really visible. Maybe because of lack of those alcohol selling zones there was no need for controlling them either. Also, people seemed to have good mood instead of arguing and fighting while being totally wasted. Finnish festivals can be very nice as well - especially when they are a little bit alternative festivals.