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Re: Fedora Workstation 39

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Post by doublepg23 »

csdvrx wrote: post #8
jasoneckert wrote: post #6

Fedora has been my choice of distribution since it was first released two decades ago. What many don't realize is that the Fedora project is much more than just the Fedora Linux distribution - it is a large and vibrant community of contributors and users with 4 strong values: Freedom, Friends, Features, and First (this last one is why Fedora is often touted as being the first Linux distribution to mainstream radical…

> and First Isn't that arch? > mainstream radical new features like Wayland Even if you qualify "First" with "mainstream", I think there might be more Steam Decks (running an arch variant) than Fedora installs :)

> and First

>> Isn't that arch?

Arch will have the packages first and I do love Arch, but it's not exactly a holistic, curated distro like Fedora.

Re: Fedora Workstation 39

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Post by pyeri »

bloaf wrote: post #10

I've tried a variety of linucies, but I keep coming back to Fedora. It frequently works the best "out of the box". It typically has the newest stuff. Googleability isn't quite as good as Ubuntu, but it's rare that I find answers that just fundamentally don't apply to Fedora. I've beeen running a home server on Fedora, and in-place-upgrading since like version 28, and never has the OS been my problem. I recently swapp…

For me, that "coming back" Distro had always been Ubuntu but since ~2021, I'm toggling between Mint and Debian. That's largely due to them pushing the snap paradigm down our throats. At this point, it's virtually impossible to escape that as firefox is only available as snap package in Ubuntu and not as DEB.

On the flip side, I don't like the other version of snap (Flatpak) either, especially so since Red Hat pulled that proprietary shenanigan recently. In fact, anyone who is supportive of open source, free software or commons ethos should try to steer clear of anything related to RH after that.

Re: Fedora Workstation 39

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Post by bloaf »

pyeri wrote: post #13
bloaf wrote: post #10

I've tried a variety of linucies, but I keep coming back to Fedora. It frequently works the best "out of the box". It typically has the newest stuff. Googleability isn't quite as good as Ubuntu, but it's rare that I find answers that just fundamentally don't apply to Fedora. I've beeen running a home server on Fedora, and in-place-upgrading since like version 28, and never has the OS been my problem. I recently swapp…

For me, that "coming back" Distro had always been Ubuntu but since ~2021, I'm toggling between Mint and Debian. That's largely due to them pushing the snap paradigm down our throats. At this point, it's virtually impossible to escape that as firefox is only available as snap package in Ubuntu and not as DEB. On the flip side, I don't like the other version of snap (Flatpak) either, especially so since Red Hat pulled…

I still type "yum install" instead of dnf, so I don't really use any of the newer distribution mechanisms.

Re: Fedora Workstation 39

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Post by opan »

dmillar wrote: post #4
jadbox wrote: post #3

Fedora 39 KDE Spin has been flawless so far, and I love the window tiling native support. Also, suspend on Nvidia works again for me.. not sure if it's related or driver release coincidence.

Real tiling (ala i3) or just Kwin snapping?

There's a Sway spin of Fedora now that you might like.

Re: Fedora Workstation 39

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Post by gtirloni »

In my case, Fedora became collateral damage after the CentOS/RHEL drama.

I've switched all my personal systems to Debian.

Fedora is excellent but working with different systems on my personal computers and the servers is not something I have time for.

Re: Fedora Workstation 39

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Post by throwaway914 »

Not kidding, the future should be Fedora Silverblue layered on top of Fedora CoreOS. Immutable Linux is the future, and extending existing images is how they should be layering for each Fedora... flavor :)

Re: Fedora Workstation 39

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Post by doubled112 »

doublepg23 wrote: post #11
csdvrx wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and First Isn't that arch? > mainstream radical new features like Wayland Even if you qualify "First" with "mainstream", I think there might be more Steam Decks (running an arch variant) than Fedora installs :)

> and First >> Isn't that arch? Arch will have the packages first and I do love Arch, but it's not exactly a holistic, curated distro like Fedora.

Arch is not always the most up to date. Fedora and openSUSE occasionally beat it to an update. I've seen Fedora packages from git commits where Arch sticks with latest stable as well.

glibc and GNOME come to mind as frequent "not first" packages.

As a bigger thing, I think Fedora implemented systemd before Arch.

Re: Fedora Workstation 39

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Post by 9front »

wavemode wrote: post #19
Andrex wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love Gnome, Fedora's been along for the ride but it's been an excellent distribution in my book. Glad I decided against Elementary (it was right before that project imploded).

Out of the loop - what happened to Elementary?

Version 7.1 was release a month ago. Development for version 8 is going strong. However, Elementary might be behind other distros in switching to Wayland from X11.
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