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Fedora Linux 34 is officially here

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Re: Fedora Linux 34 is officially here

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Post by teh_klev »

mxuribe wrote: post #11
haik90 wrote: post #5

just upgrade from Fedora 32 to Fedora 34. the upgrade really smooth, less than 1 hour.

Interesting...my personal daily driver is on fedora 32,and i was going to go to fedora 33 first...but it seems that you skipped 33? If so, curious why? Was it a sort of "who cares, let's do it", or is there a reason that i should skip 33, etc.??

Unless you want to use 33 then I'd just jump right over to 34. My general purpose Fedora PC has made the two version jump a couple of times in the past without a jelly trouser moment.

Re: Fedora Linux 34 is officially here

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Post by gtirloni »

sparkling wrote: post #15
mikevm wrote: post #14

I've been an Ubuntu user for ages, any reasons to switch to Fedora?

I use Fedora because i like to have the vanilla GNOME experience out of the box. I also like that i don't need to undo all the snap stuff like in current Ubuntu versions, just plain old boring packages (snap and flatpak are both optional). But overall, they are really similar.

flatpak is great for apps like Telegram, Discord, Zoom, Teams, etc.

Re: Fedora Linux 34 is officially here

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Post by rubyist5eva »

mikevm wrote: post #14

I've been an Ubuntu user for ages, any reasons to switch to Fedora?

Vanilla gnome, more up-to-date software, package management with dnf is superior than apt. You don't have to have snaps shoved down your throat (but you can still use them if you like).

Fedora is a "makers" distro. Every big innovation in Linux has happened in Fedora first.

Re: Fedora Linux 34 is officially here

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Post by rkangel »

mikevm wrote: post #14

I've been an Ubuntu user for ages, any reasons to switch to Fedora?

More up to date kernel (and associated bits) means usually the best support for hardware (e.g. Fedora is usually faultless on Lenovo laptops, unless you have GPU problems).

More up to date and more vanilla Gnome means that you've got the best state of Wayland implementation, and therefore the best version of multi-monitor, HighDPi etc. (I don't know what Ubuntu is like here though at the moment).

Re: Fedora Linux 34 is officially here

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Post by second--shift »

mikevm wrote: post #14

I've been an Ubuntu user for ages, any reasons to switch to Fedora?

no snap! This is really my biggest issue.

We use RHEL/rpm-based linuxes at work, and it helps to have a package building environment at home the same as it is at work. Everything else is or can be configured to be the same, for the most part.

Re: Fedora Linux 34 is officially here

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Post by stinkytaco »

mikevm wrote: post #14

I've been an Ubuntu user for ages, any reasons to switch to Fedora?

What issues are you having with Ubuntu? Hard to say if Fedora is worth a switch without knowing that detail.

If you are satisfied with Ubuntu and it's meeting your needs, then I would argue there is not enough in Fedora to warrant switching. This isn't to say there's lots of things to like, just that my tolerance for disruption is pretty low.

Re: Fedora Linux 34 is officially here

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Post by O_H_E »

teh_klev wrote: post #21
mxuribe wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting...my personal daily driver is on fedora 32,and i was going to go to fedora 33 first...but it seems that you skipped 33? If so, curious why? Was it a sort of "who cares, let's do it", or is there a reason that i should skip 33, etc.??

Unless you want to use 33 then I'd just jump right over to 34. My general purpose Fedora PC has made the two version jump a couple of times in the past without a jelly trouser moment.

Thanks for the laugh xD

Re: Fedora Linux 34 is officially here

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Post by hs86 »

They managed to increase the distance the mouse cursor has to travel to open the app drawer. The worst case would be to move the cursor to the upper left and then to the bottom right.

Does Red Hat monitor the mouse travel distance to measure "employee productivity," or how did they end up with this design?

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