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Fedora has been great lately. QA is so much better than other distros. Things "just work".

by lima 9y ago

meddlepal 9y ago
Agreed. I readopted Fedora as my distro of choice around 19 and haven't looked back.
- astrodust 9y ago
  I've been using Fedora since they forked from RedHat for the simple reason that clicking "Next" through the installer or mashing F12 always did the right thing by default. Ubuntu and Debian, by comparison, would always ask stupid questions that had even dumber defaults. Nothing would ever work unless you went out of your way to look things up. The Fedora team has done a really great job of keeping the distribution coherent and functional even though they've fully embraced the "move fast and break things" mentality. The only down-side to Fedora is they iterate really quickly and there's no LTS option, as that's what RedHat is for, but if you can turn over your installations on a regular basis (e.g. cloud servers) it's not really a big deal.
  - fulafel 9y ago
    They didn't fork, RH just rebranded it.
    - astrodust 9y ago
      Fedora is not identical to RedHat. It's more of a proving ground for new things that may or may not make their way back into RedHat Enterprise Linux. It's not a simple rebrand. Fedora Core 1 took what was staged for RedHat 10 and packaged it with a different license and sent it off in a different direction.
  - gryph0n 9y ago
    > "and there's no LTS option, as that's what RedHat is for" On the FOSS side, the LTS option would be CentOS https://www.centos.org/ https://www.centos.org/
s_kilk 9y ago
Seconded. I've been on Fedora for the last few months and it's had much less general bullshit and annoyance than recent Ubuntu's. Certainly looking forward to upgrading to Fedora 26.
crudbug 9y ago
Yes, it is my full time workstation. But, I do experience screen freeze once in a while when I am plugging external monitors.
champagnepapi 9y ago
I've been using Fedora since 23. I started using it because of work, but it quickly became my main OS. I've installed it on a MBP, and now an Alienware. Only have had a couple problems, on the MBP webcam didn't work. On the Alienware, I have to run a script to get the 3.5mm jack to work. Other than that, no problems. I enjoy using it, and its also really easy to upgrade. Prior, I was a life long Mac OS user (since the 6th grade lol).
schnevets 9y ago
So interesting... I gave up on Fedora around the "Beefy Miracle" silliness. I remembered seeing comment threads that combined community exasperation alongside genuine technical complaints. It's nice to see the team has rebuilt itself! Maybe I'll give 26 a spin in a VM.
- lima 9y ago
  Much better now. Red Hat has full time people working on it and the community is larger. I've heard that many of the people working on GNOME, systemd and the like use Fedora themselves, which certainly helps. My favorite Linux distribution nowadays because I don't have to spend time fiddling with it. I also really like spec files for packaging - they're really similar to PKGBUILD and similar formats.
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amiga-workbench 9y ago
I've been running it on my computers since Fedora 22, everything works out of the box on all the ThinkPads I've installed it on, and my desktop. Gnome needs a few extensions to be usable, but its working great overall.

Fedora has been great lately. QA is so much better than other distros. Things "just work".

by lima 9y ago

Fedora has been great lately. QA is so much better than other distros. Things "just work".

meddlepal 9y ago

Agreed. I readopted Fedora as my distro of choice around 19 and haven't looked back.

astrodust 9y ago
I've been using Fedora since they forked from RedHat for the simple reason that clicking "Next" through the installer or mashing F12 always did the right thing by default. Ubuntu and Debian, by comparison, would always ask stupid questions that had even dumber defaults. Nothing would ever work unless you went out of your way to look things up. The Fedora team has done a really great job of keeping the distribution coherent and functional even though they've fully embraced the "move fast and break things" mentality. The only down-side to Fedora is they iterate really quickly and there's no LTS option, as that's what RedHat is for, but if you can turn over your installations on a regular basis (e.g. cloud servers) it's not really a big deal.
- fulafel 9y ago
  They didn't fork, RH just rebranded it.
  - astrodust 9y ago
    Fedora is not identical to RedHat. It's more of a proving ground for new things that may or may not make their way back into RedHat Enterprise Linux. It's not a simple rebrand. Fedora Core 1 took what was staged for RedHat 10 and packaged it with a different license and sent it off in a different direction.
- gryph0n 9y ago
  > "and there's no LTS option, as that's what RedHat is for" On the FOSS side, the LTS option would be CentOS https://www.centos.org/ https://www.centos.org/

s_kilk 9y ago

Seconded. I've been on Fedora for the last few months and it's had much less general bullshit and annoyance than recent Ubuntu's. Certainly looking forward to upgrading to Fedora 26.

crudbug 9y ago

Yes, it is my full time workstation. But, I do experience screen freeze once in a while when I am plugging external monitors.

champagnepapi 9y ago

I've been using Fedora since 23. I started using it because of work, but it quickly became my main OS. I've installed it on a MBP, and now an Alienware. Only have had a couple problems, on the MBP webcam didn't work. On the Alienware, I have to run a script to get the 3.5mm jack to work. Other than that, no problems. I enjoy using it, and its also really easy to upgrade. Prior, I was a life long Mac OS user (since the 6th grade lol).

schnevets 9y ago

So interesting... I gave up on Fedora around the "Beefy Miracle" silliness. I remembered seeing comment threads that combined community exasperation alongside genuine technical complaints. It's nice to see the team has rebuilt itself! Maybe I'll give 26 a spin in a VM.

lima 9y ago
Much better now. Red Hat has full time people working on it and the community is larger. I've heard that many of the people working on GNOME, systemd and the like use Fedora themselves, which certainly helps. My favorite Linux distribution nowadays because I don't have to spend time fiddling with it. I also really like spec files for packaging - they're really similar to PKGBUILD and similar formats.

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amiga-workbench 9y ago

I've been running it on my computers since Fedora 22, everything works out of the box on all the ThinkPads I've installed it on, and my desktop. Gnome needs a few extensions to be usable, but its working great overall.