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Fedora 39 Released

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Re: Fedora 39 Released

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Post by t0bia_s »

hospitalJail wrote: post #60
smetj wrote: post #21

Best Linux desktop/laptop distro hands down. Congrats Fedora!

I am ready to declare it the best OS. I've never been more productive since getting Fedora. 0 Forced reboots. With windows, forced reboots were a multi-weekly occurance. No dealing with autosaves and reopening anything. Its so fast, you click and something pops up. With windows, there seems to be like a 0.2s delay on everything. This adds up. I think I did some of those linux commands that everyone is afraid of doing…

Still not for casual users. Plenty settings are not possible to do without terminal.

Ie changes in ethtool or scheduling poweroff/poweron or making remote dekstop works when autologin is off.

Re: Fedora 39 Released

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Post by ladyanita22 »

tapoxi wrote: post #3

I've been a huge fan of Fedora, and it seems this release does 90% of what I want, but since I'm on a Framework 13 with a weird screen resolution, I once again fall into DPI scaling hell. GNOME locks fractional scaling behind an experimental option, apps like Signal are blurry and apps like Steam just seemingly ignore any attempt to scale properly. For what it's worth KDE seems to handle at least the blurry X scaling…

Why not using Fedora KDE?

Re: Fedora 39 Released

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Post by reisse »

asdajksah2123 wrote: post #90
reisse wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You have no idea what the challenges are or how the development process works for this project. The magic of the open source gives you the possibility to see it. And I do sometimes take a look into a shitshow of management which is this three years old triple buffering MR [1]. Don't get me wrong, I didn't examine the code thoroughly, it might be a marvel of engineering, but when it takes you more than three years (…

And yet somehow despite Gnome's shitshow management, all the major distros default to GNOME. Maybe they're doing something right?

> all the major distros default to GNOME

If your definition of major distros is limited to Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora, then probably. Linux Mint was born out of rejecting GNOME, Arch is not opinionated, Manjaro defaults to KDE (although "defaults" here may be a wrong word), SteamOS defaults to KDE, openSUSE defaults to KDE, then there's PopOS...

Re: Fedora 39 Released

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Post by bagol »

paulddraper wrote: post #81
Handprint4469 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Maybe one day, everything will just work... I've had the same hope since I started using Linux, back in 2004.

Well you're in luck, because 2024 is the year of the Linux desktop.

Every year is the year of the Linux desktop.

Re: Fedora 39 Released

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Post by sach1 »

jklinger410 wrote: post #8
tapoxi wrote: post #3

I've been a huge fan of Fedora, and it seems this release does 90% of what I want, but since I'm on a Framework 13 with a weird screen resolution, I once again fall into DPI scaling hell. GNOME locks fractional scaling behind an experimental option, apps like Signal are blurry and apps like Steam just seemingly ignore any attempt to scale properly. For what it's worth KDE seems to handle at least the blurry X scaling…

> but since I'm on a Framework 13 with a weird screen resolution Hold up, is this a reason to not buy a Framework?

It's a good reason not to use GNOME.

"What makes you think sharpness is a metric?" https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3787

Re: Fedora 39 Released

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Post by pjmlp »

paulddraper wrote: post #81
Handprint4469 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Maybe one day, everything will just work... I've had the same hope since I started using Linux, back in 2004.

Well you're in luck, because 2024 is the year of the Linux desktop.

Sure, emulating Windows games via Proton....

Re: Fedora 39 Released

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Post by pjmlp »

tapoxi wrote: post #3

I've been a huge fan of Fedora, and it seems this release does 90% of what I want, but since I'm on a Framework 13 with a weird screen resolution, I once again fall into DPI scaling hell. GNOME locks fractional scaling behind an experimental option, apps like Signal are blurry and apps like Steam just seemingly ignore any attempt to scale properly. For what it's worth KDE seems to handle at least the blurry X scaling…

I used to think like that between 1995 and 2009.

Nowadays, the Linux kernel is all over the place at my phones, TV, DVD player, and tablets, yet GNU/Linux only on a surving netbook, from the netbook glory days, Asus 1215B.

Re: Fedora 39 Released

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Post by akvadrako »

tapoxi wrote: post #3

I've been a huge fan of Fedora, and it seems this release does 90% of what I want, but since I'm on a Framework 13 with a weird screen resolution, I once again fall into DPI scaling hell. GNOME locks fractional scaling behind an experimental option, apps like Signal are blurry and apps like Steam just seemingly ignore any attempt to scale properly. For what it's worth KDE seems to handle at least the blurry X scaling…

In case it helps anyone, you can fix blurry X11 apps in GNOME by disabling fractional scaling like this:

  settings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "[]"
Indeed it isn't the best experience and hopefully XWayland gets some better defaults, but fractional scaling cannot work well unless apps support it natively since text needs to be rendered at the correct DPI or exact 2x/3x multiples.

Re: Fedora 39 Released

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Post by akvadrako »

doakes wrote: post #26

Can anyone speak to their experience with the atomic/immutable versions of Fedora (Onyx, Silverblue)? It sounds pretty interesting. [0] https://fedoraproject.org/silverblue/

I've been using Silverblue for a few months and pretty happy with it. This is the first time upgrading and it's the best upgrade experience I've had in Linux.

It just downloads the new image in the background and applies my local tweaks, which only takes about 5 minutes. Then when convenient, I can reboot into it. Any problems and you don't even need to rollback, just boot into the old release.

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