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Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by wirybeige »

fanatic2pope wrote: post #38
wirybeige wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Moving between distros I usually just have files I care about like documents and music on their own drive so I don't need to worry about moving them. As for moving from Ubuntu to Fedora, there are more steps to getting non-free software/codecs/drivers working on Fedora, you will need RPM Fusion for that. There are relevant How-Tos provided by RPM Fusion and other sources for installing NVIDIA drivers, ffmpeg (non-fre…

I believe these days the "extra steps" amount to just clicking an option box to allow third party repositories during install. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/workstation-working-gro...

It enables only a small selection of RPM Fusion as your link shows, ofc flathub gets around some of the need for RPM Fusion, like video codecs, as long as everything else your using is a flatpak (and uses the applicable runtimes).

Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by scheme271 »

zifpanachr23 wrote: post #48
akdor1154 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Canonical gives off some weird vibes and those in the know will understand what I'm talking about. You're probably trying to write fairly and without throwing shade, but the result is this gives off vibes of FUD. Can you be a bit more specific about your issues with Canonical?

You're right and I apologize for that and don't want to discourage anybody from doing business with or working with or for Canonical. All I'll say is that the recruitment process alone, if it's still as bad as it used to be, is a major red flag and deal breaker w.r.t what it says about the overall culture. Maybe things have changed and so people should really take my opinions about them with a grain of salt.

If you're referring to the recruitment asking questions about your high school performance and how you ranked locally and regionally in high school in various subjects, that's still a thing. Even for positions where that shouldn't matter.

Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by CIARobotFish »

scheme271 wrote: post #52
zifpanachr23 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're right and I apologize for that and don't want to discourage anybody from doing business with or working with or for Canonical. All I'll say is that the recruitment process alone, if it's still as bad as it used to be, is a major red flag and deal breaker w.r.t what it says about the overall culture. Maybe things have changed and so people should really take my opinions about them with a grain of salt.

If you're referring to the recruitment asking questions about your high school performance and how you ranked locally and regionally in high school in various subjects, that's still a thing. Even for positions where that shouldn't matter.

I'm willing to put up with a lot during an application process, but not Canonical's circus. If applying for a job at a company tells you anything about the company's culture then I don't think I would ever want to work there.

Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by virtualwhys »

captn3m0 wrote: post #36

Asahi also has the 42 Beta available today: https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-asahi-remix-42-... Notably with FEX support for running x86 binaries. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FEX

Was just in an Apple Store yesterday mulling over whether or not to switch back to macOS after 15 years on Linux PCs.

Both MacBook Pros and Airs are nice machines, but macOS, for me, it's a huge step back.

Unfortunately the Asahi project is underfunded (likely one of the reasons the project founder/lead jumped ship recently), and as a result M4 support is likely a year+ away.

Oh wells, let's see what Dell and Lenovo have on offer this spring/summer. Should be able to get a pretty decent PC laptop for less than the $4k+ an MBP 16" with 2TB/64GB will cost.

Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by oaththrowaway »

bsimpson wrote: post #41
oaththrowaway wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I floated between Mint and Pop_OS for years, and now I'll probably never leave Fedora Silverblue. It's awesome. I just use different toolbox/distrobox for different things I need. Most of my dev work is in a Ubuntu distrobox and I use mostly Flatpaks for everything else.

For those who have heard of Bazzite, the frontrunner in gaming/home theater Linux distros, it's based on Silverblue.

I'm actually using a customized version of Universal Blue that Bazzite is also based on. Very slick setup

Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by dpool »

virtualwhys wrote: post #55
captn3m0 wrote: post #36

Asahi also has the 42 Beta available today: https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-asahi-remix-42-... Notably with FEX support for running x86 binaries. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FEX

Was just in an Apple Store yesterday mulling over whether or not to switch back to macOS after 15 years on Linux PCs. Both MacBook Pros and Airs are nice machines, but macOS, for me, it's a huge step back. Unfortunately the Asahi project is underfunded (likely one of the reasons the project founder/lead jumped ship recently), and as a result M4 support is likely a year+ away. Oh wells, let's see what Dell and Lenovo…

Might be worth taking a look at https://frame.work/.

Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by tapoxi »

dpool wrote: post #57
virtualwhys wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was just in an Apple Store yesterday mulling over whether or not to switch back to macOS after 15 years on Linux PCs. Both MacBook Pros and Airs are nice machines, but macOS, for me, it's a huge step back. Unfortunately the Asahi project is underfunded (likely one of the reasons the project founder/lead jumped ship recently), and as a result M4 support is likely a year+ away. Oh wells, let's see what Dell and Lenovo…

Might be worth taking a look at https://frame.work/ .

I love my Framework 14. I'm absolutely sticking with this company for all future PCs.

Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by burkaman »

scheme271 wrote: post #52
zifpanachr23 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're right and I apologize for that and don't want to discourage anybody from doing business with or working with or for Canonical. All I'll say is that the recruitment process alone, if it's still as bad as it used to be, is a major red flag and deal breaker w.r.t what it says about the overall culture. Maybe things have changed and so people should really take my opinions about them with a grain of salt.

If you're referring to the recruitment asking questions about your high school performance and how you ranked locally and regionally in high school in various subjects, that's still a thing. Even for positions where that shouldn't matter.

There are no positions where it should matter. Even if there were a genuine reason to care about high school grades (there isn't), asking about relative ranking doesn't make any sense unless you have detailed knowledge of the specific school they went to. It's like asking a candidate to rank their programming ability compared to their current colleagues. What possible information could you derive from this?

Example application: https://canonical.com/careers/4676649/application

> How did you perform in mathematics at high school?

Predefined answers are "Top 0.01% in the region", "Top 5% at school", "Top 10% at school", etc.

> Please share your rationale or evidence for the high school performance selections above. Make reference to provincial, state or nation-wide scoring systems, rankings, or recognition awards, or to competitive or selective college entrance results such as SAT or ACT scores, JAMB, matriculation results, IB results etc. We recognise every system is different but we will ask you to justify your selections above.

These are required questions. Even if I were literally in high school, I'm not sure how I would be able to answer these. "Make reference to provincial, state or nation-wide scoring systems, rankings" - do these exist in the US? If they do I've never heard of them.

Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by tapoxi »

ndiddy wrote: post #33
jjice wrote: post #8

I've been feeling a pull towards Fedora lately away from Ubuntu, especially because there's apparently better hardware support for Framework laptops. Does anyone have experience for migrating from Ubuntu to Fedora? Package reinstallation isn't an issue for me, but wondering if anyone has some general tips for migrating everything between distributions, especially with different parent distros.

One thing to note is that you have to set up codecs/video acceleration stuff manually on Fedora because of legal reasons. Here's a pretty good guide for that, it also has some suggested configuration tweaks for GNOME that make it a bit nicer to use. https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2024/10/14/fedora-starter-pack/

For those interested in the atomic versions, the Universal Blue team has variants that do all of this for you: https://universal-blue.org/

It's not really a separate distro, more like a different configuration. The regular atomic release is the "base image" with the universal blue stuff overlayed on top. You can rebase to or from a universal blue image and a stock atomic one.

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