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skozharinov | 3 years ago

Fedora is a bleeding edge distro, I thibk it's okay to disable legacy stuff there.

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Buttons840|3 years ago

As a Fedora user, I find it more polished than Ubuntu, Debian, and Mint (the other distros I've used). Newcomers shouldn't be dissuaded by this "bleeding edge" description.

okasaki|3 years ago

Wow, I always found Fedora to be awful - it used to be the selinux crashes on a vanilla install on first login and the disgusting font rendering, and now it's the unusable default gnome interface (so bad Red Hat made a shitty gnome 2 clone for enterprize customers).

I guess on some level we just prefer what we're used to.

But I seriously wonder about people who run Fedora desktops though. I installed Fedora 36 two days ago to try it again, and it's unusable. The scaling options are 100%, 200%, 300%, and 400%. I have a 43" 4k screen, so around 120dpi. 100% is too small, 200% is way too big. And gnome settings doesn't even have font size options. What the fuck.

brnt|3 years ago

Fedora switched to Wayland a release of two ago, which produces frequent errors on surprisingly many hardware configs (none of my Intel or Nvidia (i)gpu machines are stable under it). Means I had to switch away. Opensuse has become my new refuge, which has packages generally as current as Fedora, but a Q&A process that prevents things like Wayland from becoming the default prematurely.

stjohnswarts|3 years ago

I just don't want to upgrade every 6 months is all. I stick to popos/ubuntu LTS for daily drivers and arch when I want to be cutting edge. Fedora is in some strange middle ground to me.

bproven|3 years ago

i agree - I have been using it for years and found it much better than Ubuntu in general

rawoke083600|3 years ago

THIS !! I recently switched from Ubuntu to Fedora workstation 35. It's been a month now and don't think I'm going to back to Ubuntu.

TL;DR Most things are just "a little nicer" and a "little more sane" I found.

EDIT: I also run i3 so I'm not part of the gnome(n..m) "problems" etc. Can really recommend it !

butz|3 years ago

"Leading-edge" would be more exact description of Fedora. They are somewhere in between bleeding-edge distributions and stable distributions (like Debian).