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Best Linux desktop/laptop distro hands down. Congrats Fedora!

by smetj 3y ago

hospitalJail 3y ago
I am ready to declare it the best OS. I've never been more productive since getting Fedora. 0 Forced reboots. With windows, forced reboots were a multi-weekly occurance. No dealing with autosaves and reopening anything. Its so fast, you click and something pops up. With windows, there seems to be like a 0.2s delay on everything. This adds up. I think I did some of those linux commands that everyone is afraid of doing. But I did that month 1, and I havent done anything since. I don't care if the rest of the world discovered The Year of Linux Desktop was 2023, but I surely figured it out. Linux Desktop is ready for the big time.
- zamalek 3y ago
  Try out Silverblue. It's immutable Fedora. The one thing I didn't like about mutable Fedora is that update reboot was extremely slow, like 2-5min. Silverblue fixes that one gripe: the update reboot is no different to a regular boot. 90% of the work is done in CI, 10% is done prior to rebooting, and 0% happens during boot. I went back to NixOS, but Silverblue was an incredibly close second.
  - BenjiWiebe 3y ago
    I've been running Fedora for around 10 years and I'm pretty sure they don't have a different reboot for updates, except a system upgrade (F38->F39) which is opt-in and takes 30ish minutes on my PC. Normal updates overwrite the files in place, so whenever a daemon/app is re/started it will use the new files then.
    - Delk 3y ago
      If you update using the GUI software updater (Gnome Software), it pre-downloads the packages but (at least usually) the actual update action is "restart and update". That reboots the system and does the actual updating at that point. If you update using dnf on the command line, it works as you describe.
      - BenjiWiebe 3y ago
        I see. Yes the first thing I do on a Fedora install is turn off the GUI updater.
- vondur 3y ago
  For speed, I've been trying out using Clear Linux. It feels really fast. Getting software for it outside of FlatHub or in the Clear Linux repos basically means compiling from source, but so far it's been good.
  - type0 3y ago
    > or in the Clear Linux repos basically means compiling from source Or take the path of least resistance and just install it with Distrobox
    - vondur 3y ago
      Ooh. This is pretty cool. I’ll have to give it a try. Thanks.
- t0bia_s 3y ago
  Still not for casual users. Plenty settings are not possible to do without terminal. Ie changes in ethtool or scheduling poweroff/poweron or making remote dekstop works when autologin is off.
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Best Linux desktop/laptop distro hands down. Congrats Fedora!

by smetj 3y ago

Best Linux desktop/laptop distro hands down. Congrats Fedora!

I am ready to declare it the best OS. I've never been more productive since getting Fedora. 0 Forced reboots. With windows, forced reboots were a multi-weekly occurance. No dealing with autosaves and reopening anything. Its so fast, you click and something pops up. With windows, there seems to be like a 0.2s delay on everything. This adds up. I think I did some of those linux commands that everyone is afraid of doing. But I did that month 1, and I havent done anything since. I don't care if the rest of the world discovered The Year of Linux Desktop was 2023, but I surely figured it out. Linux Desktop is ready for the big time.

zamalek 3y ago
Try out Silverblue. It's immutable Fedora. The one thing I didn't like about mutable Fedora is that update reboot was extremely slow, like 2-5min. Silverblue fixes that one gripe: the update reboot is no different to a regular boot. 90% of the work is done in CI, 10% is done prior to rebooting, and 0% happens during boot. I went back to NixOS, but Silverblue was an incredibly close second.
- BenjiWiebe 3y ago
  I've been running Fedora for around 10 years and I'm pretty sure they don't have a different reboot for updates, except a system upgrade (F38->F39) which is opt-in and takes 30ish minutes on my PC. Normal updates overwrite the files in place, so whenever a daemon/app is re/started it will use the new files then.
  - Delk 3y ago
    If you update using the GUI software updater (Gnome Software), it pre-downloads the packages but (at least usually) the actual update action is "restart and update". That reboots the system and does the actual updating at that point. If you update using dnf on the command line, it works as you describe.
    - BenjiWiebe 3y ago
      I see. Yes the first thing I do on a Fedora install is turn off the GUI updater.
vondur 3y ago
For speed, I've been trying out using Clear Linux. It feels really fast. Getting software for it outside of FlatHub or in the Clear Linux repos basically means compiling from source, but so far it's been good.
- type0 3y ago
  > or in the Clear Linux repos basically means compiling from source Or take the path of least resistance and just install it with Distrobox
  - vondur 3y ago
    Ooh. This is pretty cool. I’ll have to give it a try. Thanks.
t0bia_s 3y ago
Still not for casual users. Plenty settings are not possible to do without terminal. Ie changes in ethtool or scheduling poweroff/poweron or making remote dekstop works when autologin is off.

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