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Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by microtonal » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 5:35 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 is a Recipes flatpak as well. So in principle (or perhaps by principle), you can run it in other distributions as well.

http://flatpak.org/apps.html

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by beerbaron23 » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 5:39 PM UTC

flannelhead wrote: post #20

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.

In my many adventures testing out all the Plasma based distro's, OpenSUSE was the most stable and polished version of Plasma available right now.

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by reitanqild » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 5:40 PM UTC

api wrote: post #19

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.

I would have worded this a bit different than you did.

But I too have shyed away from fedora the last few years.

I'm primarily a KDE user but I guess now is a good time to try fedora again if I get some time. (On my test vm now: latest Ubuntu with gnome. Also hoping to give solus/budgie a little more time.)

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by beerbaron23 » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 5:44 PM UTC

0xFFC wrote: post #31

mastax wrote: post #29

I was a bit cynical when GNOME started writing new 'modern' desktop apps. It seemed like a lot of wasted effort chasing Windows/Mac. Who really needs a native desktop maps app? But I actually really like the new apps they've put together. They're simple, clean, and lightweight. I'm a bit surprised that they're made with GTK. Still hate "hot corners," though.

I do agree about hot corners m. Have used it for long time? It is really buggy. After awhile it literally slows down. I keep my workstation open for at 2 days and after 7,8 hours it gets slower and slower m. And sometimes it crashes badly. That should not happen with desktop environment.

During login try picking X.org instead of Wayland, you probably have something that doesn't play nice with Wayland yet.

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by softwarelimits » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 5:49 PM UTC

rayiner wrote: post #15

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

x2go.org

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by atemerev » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 5:50 PM UTC

Still no Wayland with Nvidia drivers. Yes, I have read perhaps too much about GBM/EGLStream debate, but right now I am out of luck with my GTX1080 :(

(And, frankly, Wayland guys are wrong and Nvidia is right.)

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by atemerev » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 5:52 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

It kinda works. Font scaling in Gnome .24 allows for fractional coefficients, and it works for 98% of cases (I have a single HiDPI display; I have heard it doesn't work as well for multiple displays).

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by infodroid » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 5:57 PM UTC

NikolaeVarius wrote: post #37

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

Man its annoying that this kind of stuff is specific to the DE not OS. I find XFCE to be perfect for my workflow but would love this utility.

Doesn't Redshift work for you? It's not GNOME specific.

https://fedoramagazine.org/safe-eyes-redshift/

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by reitanqild » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 6:15 PM UTC

mastax wrote: post #29

I was a bit cynical when GNOME started writing new 'modern' desktop apps. It seemed like a lot of wasted effort chasing Windows/Mac. Who really needs a native desktop maps app? But I actually really like the new apps they've put together. They're simple, clean, and lightweight. I'm a bit surprised that they're made with GTK. Still hate "hot corners," though.

One vote in favour of hot corners here. As long as they are implemented in a reasonable way.

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by noahdesu » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 6:21 PM UTC

I've been running Fedora 24/25 on my Macbook Air for the better part of the past year. It has been fantastic, and I don't see myself going back to OSX anytime soon. I intend to upgrade to F26.