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Re: Fedora Workstation 39

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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 f…

For me the only KDE distribution that works is OpenSuse. I tried many others (including Fedora KDE spin) and had significant issues each time. Even KDE Neon was a disappointment. So I’m in the green chameleon land for now.

How's the grass there? Do you like it?

I pondered about moving to OpenSuse, just to diversify, but I'm afraid my work laptop (Dell Inspiron) may not have the same support like Fedora provides (wifi card, "special" firmware updates, etc).

In my personal computer I use Arch. It took some time to adjust to `dnf` and copr concept of fedora. For example, since fedora isn't a rolling release distro, I had to jump through hoops to get emacs wayland to work.

Re: Fedora Workstation 39

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Bought a Lenovo laptop for my daughter's school work but she was not able to use it. So, removed windows and installed Fedora 39 on it. All of the sudden a $480 USD laptop became a full blown python development workstation in no time. Everything just worked out of the box, got my Logi MX Master 3s configured and even touchpad gestures work!!! Can't be happier. I still use my MBP for work, but my personal projects now have their own Fedora powered dedicated laptop. For me, this is the year of Linux on the desktop!!!

Re: Fedora Workstation 39

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https://www.redhat.com/licenses/Red_Hat_GPLv2-Based_EULA_201... Are you sure ?

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IANAL but Subscription services in this case abusing Red Hats CDN/Support, not the software.

Re: Fedora Workstation 39

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Conceptually, they are immutable Linux distros, but they're far from being the same. CoreOS is optimised for server use, and made to run containers and containers only, with unattended system upgrades/reboots. Silverblue is a workstation-type distro, centered around Flatpak and pet-type containers for real work (toolbox, distrobox) The difference is larger than running Fedora Server on your desktop.

So, it sounds like "Fedora Silverblue layered on top of Fedora CoreOS" is incoherent.

I mean, all distros are basically a set of packages on top of the Linux kernel. Technically there is no difference, in practice there is.

Re: Fedora Workstation 39

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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 :)

It's definitely the future and I look forward to that future arriving. Still some ways to go I think. But the progress is exciting! And I'm also excited about Flatpak's proliferation and it getting real corporate backing and the full app store treatment with forthcoming Flathub updates[1]. 1. https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-desktop-leaders-unite-be...

I really don't understand how snaps can compete with flatpak. Flatseal makes this such a great experience. Ubuntu consistently backs the wrong horse.
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