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Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by chronid »

microtonal wrote: post #6

I am mainly a macOS user, but I keep around a Dell workstation for work that needs a lot of memory or cores. After years of primarily running Debian and Ubuntu, I switched the machine to Fedora 25 and upgraded to Fedora 26 during the beta cycle. I was surprised how good Fedora is these days. The GNOME desktop is buttery smooth with Wayland and the Nouveau drivers on the relatively old Quadro that the machine has. Aud…

Did they fix the copy-paste issues between application with wayland in Fedora 26 (particular between terminal and the rest of the world)? But maybe that is a more of request for the GNOME guys...

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by atemerev »

zeep wrote: post #55

I love Fedora 25, but according to this thread[1], Firefox doesn't work out of the box in Fedora 26? Seems like a big oversight... https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6mjb7j/fedora_26_tor...

Haven't experienced any problems so far.

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by jburgess777 »

jmnicolas wrote: post #61
reitanqild wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would have worded this a bit different than you did. But I too have shyed away from fedora the last few years. I'm primarily a KDE user but I guess now is a good time to try fedora again if I get some time. (On my test vm now: latest Ubuntu with gnome. Also hoping to give solus/budgie a little more time.)

Please don't do this to yourself : I tried Fedora 25 KDE a few weeks ago and it was the buggiest POS I ever ran on my PC. Just customizing the taskbar gave me a black screen that even a reboot didn't solve. For the record Fedora Gnome was rock stable on the same machine. The only reason I didn't keep it is that I need what I call a 'pinnable taskbar' (like Windows 7). If you really want KDE you could try KDE Neon, st…

I have used Fedora + KDE for the past 5 years. Yes there are occasional issues but they are normally common to all distros which happen to use the same combination of components.

For me, I ran into a regression with compositing: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354146

After I disabled the desktop effects Fedora 25 was rock solid.

I haven't upgraded to F26, I normally wait a week or two to shake out any big issues.

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by 0xFFC »

Kostic wrote: post #33
0xFFC wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do agree about hot corners m. Have used it for long time? It is really buggy. After awhile it literally slows down. I keep my workstation open for at 2 days and after 7,8 hours it gets slower and slower m. And sometimes it crashes badly. That should not happen with desktop environment.

Do you use extensions? I've experienced this (in Fedora 21 to 23) but since I stopped using extensions, I haven't had a single crash. I usually run one session on the laptop for 5 days straight.

I am not going to use gnome with out extensions . Never ever ;)

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by brendaningram »

jmnicolas wrote: post #61
reitanqild wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would have worded this a bit different than you did. But I too have shyed away from fedora the last few years. I'm primarily a KDE user but I guess now is a good time to try fedora again if I get some time. (On my test vm now: latest Ubuntu with gnome. Also hoping to give solus/budgie a little more time.)

Please don't do this to yourself : I tried Fedora 25 KDE a few weeks ago and it was the buggiest POS I ever ran on my PC. Just customizing the taskbar gave me a black screen that even a reboot didn't solve. For the record Fedora Gnome was rock stable on the same machine. The only reason I didn't keep it is that I need what I call a 'pinnable taskbar' (like Windows 7). If you really want KDE you could try KDE Neon, st…

You can use the "Dash to Panel" extension in Gnome to provide a Windows 7 like bottom panel. I discovered it recently, and it has made my Gnome experience 1000x better.

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by brendaningram »

zeep wrote: post #55

I love Fedora 25, but according to this thread[1], Firefox doesn't work out of the box in Fedora 26? Seems like a big oversight... https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6mjb7j/fedora_26_tor...

I haven't had a single issue with Firefox (54) out of the box. I know that some add-ons can break the multi-process windows feature, but out of the box has been fine, both with clean VirtualBox installs and bare-metal desktop installs.

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by brendaningram »

I've been using Debian Stretch (which was previously Debian Testing) for the last 2 years. I didn't ever have a single problem. But as the months passed I kept getting miffed about old packages. Yes, there are backports etc, but it just didn't feel current enough. I loved the stability though.

When the difference in Firefox versions got to 50 vs 54, and I had written myself a custom bash script to keep Firefox updated, I went looking...

I've been running F26 since the early alpha days, and I have to say that I haven't had a single problem in that whole time. I've been running it on my brand new i7 desktop machine as well as a 7 year old HP laptop. Both have been superb. Performance of Gnome 3.24 is great. Stability of the platform as a whole is rock solid.

In fact, the only issue I have come across is with MakeMKV (which I have written about elsewhere). Other than that, all of my use cases have been rock solid. For reference, they include:

* Firefox (with Lastpass, uBlock origin, HTTPS everywhere, privacy badger add-ons)

* Evolution (for email, contacts, and calendar)

* taskwarrior

* ledger (with some hledger experimentation)

* Gnucash

* MakeMKV (for creating MKV files for my LibreElec HTPC)

* Shotwell (for my 15,000 file photo library)

* Quodlibet (for my 140GB music library - including a growing FLAC library)

* vim (for all my writing)

* git (for my writing and my code)

* Krita (with a Wacom tablet for illustrations for some book ideas I have)

* gimp (for image editing. e.g. I mocked up a photo of my house with how it might look with a grape vine covered pergola)

* Libreoffice (including my wife using it for her study, opening and editing MS Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files from the Uni)

* Ardour & Calf Plugins for music recording. I also experimented with BitWig, which was fantastic, but I prefer to support OSS.

* Golang (1.8, for my own personal development projects)

* Postgres (for same)

* qemu and virt-manager (for virtual machines)

I was a Microsoft .NET developer for almost 20 years. I've been a Linux user in my own time for a bit over 5 years. I'm now happy to say that I use Linux 100% for every single computer related task I have, and I couldn't be happier.

So far, the move to F26 has been fantastic, and it gets my highest recommendation to anyone else that might be considering it.

P.S. I also happily use F26 for the occasional 0AD game :)

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by voltagex_ »

dgllghr wrote: post #16
pinpeliponni wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gnome 3 has been dpi independent from day 0, so what are you talking about?

DPI independent, but requires whole number scaling (1x, 2x, not 1.5x)

And WINE still won't scale.

I'll buy a Chuwi HiDPI laptop for any developer who can make HiDPI on Linux suck less.

Re: Fedora 26 released

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Post by yrio »

jmnicolas wrote: post #61
reitanqild wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would have worded this a bit different than you did. But I too have shyed away from fedora the last few years. I'm primarily a KDE user but I guess now is a good time to try fedora again if I get some time. (On my test vm now: latest Ubuntu with gnome. Also hoping to give solus/budgie a little more time.)

Please don't do this to yourself : I tried Fedora 25 KDE a few weeks ago and it was the buggiest POS I ever ran on my PC. Just customizing the taskbar gave me a black screen that even a reboot didn't solve. For the record Fedora Gnome was rock stable on the same machine. The only reason I didn't keep it is that I need what I call a 'pinnable taskbar' (like Windows 7). If you really want KDE you could try KDE Neon, st…

Other than the "Dash to Panel" extension mentioned by another user, you can also use the "Dash to Dock" extension to get pinnable taskbar (can be set to always visible / auto hide).

I no longer use them though (to get more screen space)

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