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Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by pinpeliponni » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 3:09 PM UTC

mickael-kerjean wrote: post #5

I 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

Gnome 3 has been dpi independent from day 0, so what are you talking about?

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by jhasse » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 3:14 PM UTC

mickael-kerjean wrote: post #5

I 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

Unfortunately it will be a feature of GNOME 3.26 or 3.28, so Fedora 27 or later.

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by sandGorgon » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 3:21 PM UTC

The best part of fedora 26 is built in f.lux /redshift. No need to install or setup third party apps. Just that feature makes it worth it

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by nul_byte » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 3:23 PM UTC

sitepodmatt wrote: post #10

I'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, w…

There was me thinking it was some app configuration installation tool

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by rayiner » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 3:23 PM UTC

So what's the Linux remote desktop story these days? It seems like modern versions of GNOME running on Wayland don't support VNC?

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by dgllghr » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 3:24 PM UTC

pinpeliponni wrote: post #11

mickael-kerjean wrote: post #5

I 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

Gnome 3 has been dpi independent from day 0, so what are you talking about?

DPI independent, but requires whole number scaling (1x, 2x, not 1.5x)

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by Yuioup » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 3:30 PM UTC

Does Wayland work with proprietary nVidia drivers yet?

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by fenaer » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 3:31 PM UTC

sandGorgon wrote: post #13

The best part of fedora 26 is built in f.lux /redshift. No need to install or setup third party apps. Just that feature makes it worth it

I didn't know this was a feature, just enabled it now and it seems to work great!

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by api » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 3:33 PM UTC

microtonal wrote: post #6

I 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. Aud…

I used Fedora years ago at 19 and 20 and it was great then. It worked and... Worked. The desktop came with sane defaults. It... Worked.

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by flannelhead » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 3:50 PM UTC

Congratulations Fedora!

Everyone is praising the GNOME (default) edition. Does anyone use the KDE spin? Also, how are Fedora version upgrades nowadays? I'm trying to decide between KDE neon and Fedora.