On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 9:35 AM William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Yeah, I'm looking at Fedora too. I just want something that is stable, that works after install, and will continue to work after upgrades for foreseeable future. You can say that for Slackware. But, I'm getting old for "manual transmission"...
As someone who will only install Fedora on his personal machines - and has been using Fedora for 16 yrs now (I had to double check the dates :-) ), I would really not recommend Fedora to someone who just wants things to "work". I have never had an issue with something not working, but I have almost always required some "advanced" level tinkering at times with just a "dnf update". I lost wifi once because for some reason, an update decided to get rid of all the firmware files. Another thing to keep in mind is - Fedora is fairly aggressive with upgrades, and sometimes things are just, umm, unfinished, which again breaks things. They do try to keep the upgrades under control within a major release, but it is very maintainer dependent. And also, be prepared to have workflow changes over major upgrades (and you do do major upgrades frequently, because Fedora EOLs major versions fairly aggressively). And now I have a new, specced up laptop, but I can't get Fedora up on it - because nvidia. Maybe when I have a few hours free to spend on that. Having said all of that, there is no other distro I would use for my personal laptops. Dhaval
On 5/2/22 11:21, gs via talk wrote:
I think Fedora is on its way to becoming the replacement for Ubuntu as the default recommended desktop distro based on the opinions of various linux podcasts, youtubers and linux reddit communities.
I'm happy with Manjaro but if I were choosing a new distro to move to, it would be Fedora.
------- Original Message ------- On Monday, May 2nd, 2022 at 4:36 AM, Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Thanks. Ugh.
Your timing is perfect, because I'm just about to do a fresh install and this would be the time to decide on something else.
I'm looking for an alternative that will offer support for a KDE version as well as Steam and my fairly-new AMD graphics card (RX 6500 XT). I'd also prefer to live snap-free.
Mint and Pop don't support KDE, SuSE has problems with Steam and I'm exhausted enough that I don't want one more learning curve wrt the Arch way of doing things. Right now my best choices appear to be MX, KDE Neon (if I install the 32-bit libraries for Steam) and (if I want to go back to an RPM-based system for the first time since Mandriva ceased,) Fedora KDE.
Any suggestions, either from these choices or something else? Thanks again.
Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch / @el56
On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 2:14 AM William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org <mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote:
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20220502#ubuntu <https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20220502#ubuntu>
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