Fedora Workstation 39 • Hacker News Board

Re: Fedora Workstation 39

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Post by senectus1 » Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 1:49 AM UTC

Very happy gaming Fedora users here... But I did watch a video on NixOS and the nerdy hacker in me really wants to play with that concept...

I might have to run up some VM's for it maybe.

Re: Fedora Workstation 39

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Post by zzzeek » Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 1:57 AM UTC

Have Fedora 39 on my new Framework AMD Ryzen, there's been relatively minimal hiccups getting it going and seems to be great now.

Re: Fedora Workstation 39

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Post by eduction » Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 1:59 AM UTC

gtirloni wrote: post #16

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.

I thought about switching for this reason but there is a logic to having different distros for server vs workstation. It’s nice having an up to date emacs and firefox for example, but I don’t expect a server distro to care about that, or a longer term system like Debian to emphasize that.

Is your server setup fairly elaborate to the point where it’s tricky to get it right on the workstation? These days I’m mostly just building a jar which is fairly simple. So I don’t feel much impedance mismatch fedora vs deb.

Re: Fedora Workstation 39

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Post by nrp » Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 2:09 AM UTC

zzzeek wrote: post #22

Have Fedora 39 on my new Framework AMD Ryzen, there's been relatively minimal hiccups getting it going and seems to be great now.

We picked it as one of two distros we provide internal support for because it continues to provide a good balance between being up to date and being stable.

Re: Fedora Workstation 39

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Post by quocanh » Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 2:24 AM UTC

gtirloni wrote: post #16

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.

I think that whole thing was a bit overblown. RHEL is free for individuals. When I need the stability of a server OS, I'd rather just use the real thing.

Re: Fedora Workstation 39

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Post by lhoff » Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 2:27 AM UTC

albert180 wrote: post #2

Love Fedora ♥

OT: that’s the first time that i consciously see someone using emojis on Hackernews.

Edit: how did you do that, I tried adding one to my comment but it gets removed on post.

Re: Fedora Workstation 39

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Post by LeoPanthera » Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 2:32 AM UTC

lhoff wrote: post #26

albert180 wrote: post #2

Love Fedora ♥

OT: that’s the first time that i consciously see someone using emojis on Hackernews. Edit: how did you do that, I tried adding one to my comment but it gets removed on post.

It's not an emoji. It's U+2665, "Black Heart Suit" - the playing card symbol.

Re: Fedora Workstation 39

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Post by mattl » Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 2:36 AM UTC

quocanh wrote: post #25

gtirloni wrote: post #16

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.

I think that whole thing was a bit overblown. RHEL is free for individuals. When I need the stability of a server OS, I'd rather just use the real thing.

As I understand it, if you exercise your rights to distribute the RHEL source code, Red Hat may terminate your gratis license.

Re: Fedora Workstation 39

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Post by rickstanley » Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 2:42 AM UTC

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.

For me unfortunately the spin has been broken: when trying to login into KDE Plasma Wayland session, I see a frozen image of my laptop's vendor logo (Dell) or the last "black screen image available" (like the underline cursor in top-left corner).

The session works if I login through another tty (F2 or any other F key) and type `startplasma-wayland`, but not through SDDM. X11 works fine too. It's just the transition from SDDM -> Plasma wayland, for some reason.

Re: Fedora Workstation 39

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Post by secabeen » Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 2:47 AM UTC

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…

> At this point, it's virtually impossible to escape that as firefox is only available as snap package in Ubuntu and not as DEB.

Sure it is. Just use the official PPA from mozilla. Works great: https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

A quick google will find plenty of sites telling you how to adjust the package versioning priorities to keep the MozillaTeam version of FF preferred over the crappy snap one. I still use Ubuntu desktop as my daily driver and server OS, and we have zero snaps installed on any of our systems.