Fedora 26 released
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Fedora 26 released
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Re: Fedora 26 released
#2Fedora has been great lately. QA is so much better than other distros. Things "just work".
Re: Fedora 26 released
#3Fedora has been great lately. QA is so much better than other distros. Things "just work".
Agreed. I readopted Fedora as my distro of choice around 19 and haven't looked back.
Re: Fedora 26 released
#4Fedora has been great lately. QA is so much better than other distros. Things "just work".
Seconded. I've been on Fedora for the last few months and it's had much less general bullshit and annoyance than recent Ubuntu's. Certainly looking forward to upgrading to Fedora 26.
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#5I saw some articles saying fedora 26 might land with fractional scaling for Hdpi screen. Any news regarding this? if it lands somewhere is there any way to know about it?
I'll be very keen to switch back to Linux when my main laptop will have good support for this
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#6I am mainly a macOS user, but I keep around a Dell workstation for work that needs a lot of memory or cores. After years of primarily running Debian and Ubuntu, I switched the machine to Fedora 25 and upgraded to Fedora 26 during the beta cycle.
I was surprised how good Fedora is these days. The GNOME desktop is buttery smooth with Wayland and the Nouveau drivers on the relatively old Quadro that the machine has. Audio and suspend/resume worked out-of-the-box without any problems. Upgrades are very fast thanks to DNF and delta RPMs. Software also seems to get minor release updates within a release (e.g., I had some vim updates).
The Fedora installer also put / on a separate btrfs subvolume as it should (Ubuntu didn't do that in 16.04, not sure if they fixed that).
Great work Fedora folks!
Re: Fedora 26 released
#7I switched away from Ubuntu and to Fedora quite a few cycles ago because at the time they supported systemd by default and I wanted specifically to use systemd-nspawn. I found that it was a very solid and stable GNOME 3 distribution and that it had the best implementation of GNOME 3 between it and Ubuntu GNOME.
Now that Ubuntu is going to switch to GNOME I might eventually switch back but idk yet.
The one gripe I have with fedora is that dnf is much slower than apt.
Re: Fedora 26 released
#8I switched away from Ubuntu and to Fedora quite a few cycles ago because at the time they supported systemd by default and I wanted specifically to use systemd-nspawn. I found that it was a very solid and stable GNOME 3 distribution and that it had the best implementation of GNOME 3 between it and Ubuntu GNOME. Now that Ubuntu is going to switch to GNOME I might eventually switch back but idk yet. The one gripe I hav…
There's (supposedly) a C version being created, but it's a pain to keep up to date with its progress.
http://dnf.baseurl.org/2016/02/24/dnf-into-c-initiative-star...
Re: Fedora 26 released
#9Fedora has been great lately. QA is so much better than other distros. Things "just work".
Yes, it is my full time workstation. But, I do experience screen freeze once in a while when I am plugging external monitors.
Re: Fedora 26 released
#10I've been a Ubuntu user for years, but I've just read the Fedora 26 announcement and followed the link through to Gnome 3.24 release notes (https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.24/). The 3rd headlighting major feature of this is "New Recipes Application". One word: Sold! I've been dreaming of the day Linux DE/WM got this core feature!
I think we can safely say 2017 will indeed be the year of Linux desktop, we got there, we've made it! (there is also minor footnotes for niche things like file managers, calendar and gfx config, if that's your thing)