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8.2 from 256 review(s)
Version: 38
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-05-20
Votes: 5
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This is my main distribution after I started distrohopping. A fine and polished distribution with a minimal installation out of the box while also providing many QoL features that could be considered minor for the average user, but for my Optimus laptop, the fact that most applications that require my NVIDIA card use that by default, make this distribution my favorite.
In version 38, unfiltered flathub was added when selecting third-party repositories on first-boot, which is another plus from me.
What I don't find appealing is the installation process. From a new user perspective, it is a little difficult to understand everything. This is where Ubuntu is better in my opinion. Ubuntu's installation process in the recent 23.04 is very appealing, has a nice and polished UI and an easy way to install the system: just clicking next a bunch of times. For the new user this is optimal for the Operating System experience.
Besides the installation process, another thing they don't do that Ubuntu does is having the ability to enable Multimedia codecs in the installer. Ubuntu does that and still says that they are third-party and subject to licenses
Even with these very small complaints, this is my favorite distribution by far and recommend it to everyone willing to put their time into either learning Linux, or using it as a personal desktop Operating System
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Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-05-19
Votes: 4
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I used Uubuntu since 19.04 until 23.04 versions. When I bought new SSD, I started to install 23.04 from scratch over the existing Btrfs partition. And there was the problems with Ubuntu installers:
1. New installer doesn't create subvolumes for home and root partitions.
2. Legacy installer is buggy and after installation Ubuntu 23.04 doesn't boot and fall into initramfs.
I decided to try Fedora 38 installed it without any issues and fall in love with it. At first look Fedora is more minimalistic and better polished. Vanilla GNOME w/o Dash looks great and provide different user experienece than Ubuntu's GNOME with Dash.
My Ubuntu 23.04 rating is 8/10 and Fedora 38 - 10/10.
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Version: 38
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-05-17
Votes: 8
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If there was a button during setup to enable the various extra codecs/VA acceleration, it would've been the best Linux experience. Right now, you need to manually install rpmfusion to have a first-class desktop experience, as compared to Windows and macOS.
Unfiltered Flathub installed by default is a great choice; the distro also continues to provide near-latest versions of packages and new features, while remaining stable.
I'm looking forward to when the Silverblue version starts getting primetime attention - I honestly believe Fedora is the future of Linux.
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Version: 37
Rating: 4
Date: 2023-05-10
Votes: 2
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It is a fine distro, but it is far from been a Distro for linux nubies. The installer is really messy, specially if you have more than two partitions and you need to use the custom partition configuration, it is probably the worst among all other most used distros like Mint, Ubuntu, SuSe, Rose, Open Mandriva.
Pros: Stability, huge commnunity, you can get easy help
Cons: not straight forward support for Nvidia cards (it does not have something similar to Ubuntu or Mint to install the Nvidia Drivers --- Driver Manager---
I promised myself not to install it again until there is a decent Installer available for the Distro. Anaconda is really ridiculous. I think Anaconda is just fine for installing Servers, usually you don´t have to deal with multipartitions, you probably create volumes, etc.
Long time user of most of major Distros: SuSe, PCLinuxOs, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Rosa Linux, Mageia, etc
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Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-05-10
Votes: 9
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This is a desktop user review.
I've distrohopped these last couple of years like I had nothing else to do.
All day, almost every day these last few months.
I've tried most of the top 20 distros on Distrowatch (thank you Distrowatch)
If you're looking for stability, get Debian stable. Old software, tested ad infinitum. Won't break.
If you want to run on really old hardware, MX Linux might be your go to. It's the top rank solely because of this.
*If*, although, you're looking for a balance of the latest and greatest with a solid foundation, Fedora is the distro of choice. Fedora 38 has hit that sweet spot in release cycles that even for Fedora is an achievement.
The default desktop is Gnome 44, dubbed Kuala Lumpur. Gnome right now is the Desktop Environment (DE) that has the most cash investment in its development. More than KDE. It's starting to show. I'm not the biggest fan of super tweaking the DE from a bunch of different sources, but when you get the hang of it, you can get a desktop that is more aesthetic than Windows 11.
Give it a go if you want something stable and new. Fedora's not going anywhere. It's backed by Redhat Enterprise Linux (REL) a big company, and Fedora developpers, as of today, are running a tight ship.
Kudos Fedora on Fedora 38!
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Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-05-07
Votes: 5
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Fedora is a distro that holds up over time, over months and years.
I use Fedora 38 and Fedora Silverblue. This last distro is a great success, if you take the time to understand it and really look into it (toolbox)
For :
- Great stability
- In case of problem, big reactivity for updates
- Latest versions of software
- Team vision, lots of communication, fairly strong transparency (example: discussions on the 2028 agenda)
- Seriousness of the team: thus version 37 had been postponed for a security / stability problem
Cons:
- Obligation to use RPM fusion for certain codecs (simple, explained in videos or the wiki)
- No LTS version for fedora server, it's incomprehensible.
I put a 10 because it turns out to be powerful, efficient over time. 10 for this long-term stability, security, novelties and quality of Fedora Silverblue.
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Version: 38
Rating: 7
Date: 2023-05-05
Votes: 0
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The OS itself seems a little slow, but tight and usable, but continuing a rather nasty habit in recent Fedora releases, the backgrounds and graphics in the interface leave a helluvalot to be desired. The screen art (similar to F37) looks like a random screen grab from a bad manga cartoon, and the flat-style icons and interface graphics make it look like an OS interface built by Playskool with icons supplied by Fisher Price.
Do yourself a favor and grab the MATE version, and then fetch Enlightenment after the install.
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Version: 38
Rating: 2
Date: 2023-05-04
Votes: 3
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Despite Fedora's potential advantages, my assessment revealed several notable concerns..
Performance and Package Management:
Fedora's DNF package manager, while operational, faces difficulties in matching the speed and effectiveness of its counterparts.
Stability and Usability:
My Fedora experience was negatively impacted by system instability, which significantly influenced my overall perception. Moreover, Fedora's Gnome desktop environment is resource-demanding and missing crucial features.
Beginner Friendliness:
The limited guidance Fedora offers for installing codecs, basic utility softwares etc results in a challenging learning curve for new users. The possibility of updates disrupting Gnome extensions is an additional source of problem.
Compatibility and Support:
Fedora encounters compatibility issues such as boot complications with specific graphics cards. Furthermore, software developers might not offer extensive support for this distribution. Problems with driver compatibility, WiFi connectivity, and faulty DNS resolution exacerbate the user experience.
Software Center and Pre-installed Applications:
While Fedora's software center boasts an appealing interface, it falls short in search functionality, compelling users to rely on command-line approaches. Pre-installed apps suffer from missing codec problems and lag, necessitating extra post-install tasks to ensure the system is suitable.
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Version: 38
Rating: 6
Date: 2023-05-04
Votes: 3
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I have been a long-time user of Fedora Linux and have recently encountered performance issues with Fedora 38, as it appears to be significantly slower and less responsive when compared to its predecessors. Despite numerous attempts to reinstall the software on various machines, the performance remained unsatisfactory. In my humble opinion, Fedora 37 performs much better. It seems that Fedora 38 lacks optimization, and exhibits qualities of a beta or alpha product. Additionally, I have also encountered issues with its boot process as the panels or top bar do not load correctly, rendering the software unusable. This is unfortunate and disappointing.
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Version: 38
Rating: 3
Date: 2023-04-30
Votes: 0
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The installer is too simplistic and doesn’t offer enough options.
Only vanilla GNOME is offered.
Fedora is noticeably slower and more power hungry than other distros, both on bare metal and in a VM.
Despite it’s reputation as a distro for developers, important development tools are missing in the default install.
Fedora is also the mother distribution of the controversial systemd.
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Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-04-22
Votes: 20
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Fedora remains the benchmark for Linux. The projects that make it up are the most advanced and risky, but it still manages to be a stable distribution. Ideal for those who want to venture into the future of Linux.
The immutable systems offered by the distribution (Silverblue, with Gnome; Kinoite, with Plasma; Sericea, with Sway), are among the most advanced projects of their kind.
PROS:
1. Stability between versions.
2. Updated software.
3. New technologies.
4. Support of a great company.
CONS:
1. Medium difficulty.
2. Need to add proprietary drivers and codecs.
3. Limited support time.
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Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-04-21
Votes: 16
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All in all, a very pleasant experience so far. I have always used Ubuntu before, but since Canonical does not support Flatpak, I have decided to use Fedora. Despite the fairly recent software, Fedora is very stable. What I like most is the integration of Flathub out-of-the-box. Which means I don't need most of the other sources, like Chrome or Steam repositories. You can get all that from Flathub and it works without any problems.
Gnome 44 is a great desktop environment and has been implemented very well. The dark mode is also great and you can easily enable dark mode for legacy applications thanks to Gnome tweaks. This is especially useful for some flatpaks. Very simple. The fonts are also very pleasant.
What I do not like is the default file system BTRFS. The default partinioning is also incompatible with timeshift. Snapshots cannot be created with it. You have to specify @ and @home in the installer first, only then a snapshot with Timeshift works without problems. This could be improved. Apart from that, there is not much more to say.
All in all, the first impression is great and a serious alternative to Ubuntu.
Thanks a lot.
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Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-04-20
Votes: 2
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I have installed Fedora 38 Budgie Spin on a HP All In One Desktop 2-3GHZ AMD CPUs, Raedon GPU, 1 TB hard drive, and 4 GB of RAM. The Fedora 38 Budgie install in UEFI and found all of the hardware and firmware listed. I only had to enable the RPM Fusion repos and install multimedia codecs for sound and video. I was using this desktop as a daily driver with Fedora 37 Comp Mate Spin for the last three months. No problems encountered at all. It fact, is was a very fast and stable experience.
I hope to have the same success with Fedora 38 Budgie Spin. I am a huge fan of the Budgie desktop. So far, I have installed the following software from the Fedora Software Center: Gnome Chess, IDLE3, TOR Browser, and VLC. VScodium was installed via vscodium.com and GIT. As you can see, I am using this desktop as a daily driver. I prefer Fedora because of its reputation, documentation, and US support. I hope to see more reviews on the recently added Fedora 38 Budgie Spin.
Thank you DistroWatch and Fedora !!
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Version: 38
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-04-19
Votes: 1
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I tried the Mate spin and the default Workstation versions. Both versions reported an "Oops, something went wrong" at regular intervals. And in both versions my Soundblaster soundcard was recognized, but it didn work. (Where in other distros like Debian, OpenSuse and Debian I had no problems
And though the Mate spin should be faster than the Gnome version it was quite sluggish compared to the latter. In fact compared to any other version of Mate I used in other distros.
In short, I fired up Debian, listened to some relaxing music and wiped Fedora from the disk.
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Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-04-16
Votes: 5
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An overall pretty good distribution if you opt for the GNOME desktop. Haven't personally used any of the spins such as the immutable version, however the standard distribution is amazing. The repositories are really up to date and stable at the same time, the default environment is lean and uses modern technologies such as Wayland and Pipewire. The two reasons I can't give it a 10/10 even though it's my daily driver is:
- The installer is absolutely awful as of 37. Apparently this will be changed in the next update
- No Flathub by default, or no complete Flathub at all. Although this is minimized by the fact they mantain their own flatpak repositories.
Overall I recommend the distribution, but you should be aware that you will need to tinker with it a bit to get a good experience, this is not the best distribution "out-of-the-box" but is instead a really good base for your Linux desktop.
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Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-04-15
Votes: 1
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Fedora is one of the best distros in my opinion, but has a couple of issues holding it back although it definitely is heading in the right direction. Before I get into the issues, Fedora and some other distros are in a sweet spot of having corporate funding behind it, yet having a very good philosophy around free software yet it is less dogmatic than FSF endorsed distros. Everything works very well and the packages are also very up to date, especially compared to Debian based distros.
The main issues with it is that DNF feels a little slow and the desktop revolves around GTK DEs, the latter is a matter of personal taste but the former may be a deal breaker for some. However, I have heard that Fedora 38 makes DNF speedier, along with a lot of other anticipated updates. If you aren't a Fedora user already I would wait until 38 comes out before switching
All this being said, it is best for relatively newer computers, it needs nothing cutting edge but even XFCE uses ~800mb of ram. You may get away with LXQt and swap, but Qt feels like a second class citizen on Fedora.
I realize this sounds like a negative review, but I really think it is one of the best distros available, everything works (especially if you are only looking to use Free software) especially with 38 on the horizon.
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Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-03-19
Votes: 15
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My distro died so I moved to Fedora, installed Budgie, and haven't looked back.
I am writing after about 5 weeks of daily driving="where have you been all my life"?
I've tried a lot of Budgies and this is the best experience to me.
I use Fedora 37 for home desktop use which is both professional and personal.
PROS:
*incredibly easy to use
*dnf is an easy, sensible package manager with simple syntax
*for CLI peeps like me, rhel concepts/terminology are easier than deb/other
*graphics/menus/windows render beautifully and for linux distros this is not achieved by most imho
*FUNCTIONING package selection better than most
*Pushes Flatpaks in software center (CONS) but makes it incredibly easy to find and install the actual RPM (PROS).
*no program has crashed
*Fedora itself has not crashed and I am a wrecking ball
*if you do your reading/research then installer program becomes friendly. if you go about it blindly then leave rating 1 reviews after failure then it's not valid criticism. see next point
*this PRO is a CON as well: very few distros have so much literature to make life easy and very few distros have so much literature to make life easy that is outdated
*this is a distro a new user and seasoned user can both walk right into.
*big plus for the software center is telling the user right up front what is tested/open source, and what it proprietary. not everyone does this clearly
*unpretentious on the whole. modern, sleek, but no disco ball and glitter
*easy on the eyes
*you get work done on it and it gets out of your way
*extremely customizable ***(depends on flavour I suppose)
*printer and scanner support not instant (where is it instant?) but fastly do-able
*have never seen a distro where info on how to find/install a package/fix something/change something so easy and quick to find. this makes hiccups not hiccups
CONS:
*too many repos. confusing. there are too many 'test' and 'official' and 'unofficial-but-we-mostly-vouch-for-them-kind-of.' I understand variety and pleasing people and disclaimers and liability, but realistically there should be one or two. I have like 7.
*DNF (cli) and GUI software center are not married, do not sync, and do not think alike or even list the same packages. It's a "quirk" I can live with since I prefer CLI for all manners of install except the reading.
*gui software center sluggish to load if you like reading and reviews. turn the back arrow and it puts you back at the top of the small-windowed app list--not the middle where you left off. If you are reading reviews/blurbs about an app (the list of password managers, for instance, in sequence than this is torture.
*they need a 'scrub and kibosh' internet team to purge old useless official information as the distro evolves. transparency is a beautiful thing but the how-to's of Fedora online are perilous and voluminous
I don't enjoy hopping but sometimes you have to see what's out there for a variety of reasons. I am not deducting a single digit in my rating for the CON stuff. Fedora con stuff is small potatoes compared to many of its peers.
This is a solid experience
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Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-03-16
Votes: 3
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I have been looking for a distro for normal pc + gaming use for several times.
The Arch-derived distros that I've tried with proprietary GPU drivers (Endeavor OS, Manjaro) are "heavy" in normal use and for gaming...
I certainly have a rather old PC config but I still have an AMD processor at 3.1 ghz + 6 ghz of ram + an NVIDIA GPU at 2 ghz.
Fedora "Workstation" is the only distro that is ultra-light with my PC config, it starts up in less than 30 s, remains fluid in operation and some fairly demanding games that work poorly under WIN** start quite well in low settings with Fedora.
I also forgot my printer/scanner model installs itself ... even if the software library is less extensive than other Linux distros there is the essential so I recommend Fedora Gnome.
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Version: 37
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-03-12
Votes: 3
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I have been trying to install the Fedora Comp Neuro Lab distro. I am now giving up, it is too frustrating and I can't waste any more time on it.
1. The comp neuro iso does not contain the neuro apps claimed by the website.
2. My Fedora login works for the forums, but will not work for the parts of the website that I need to use to report the problem.
3. Some very helpful people on the forum did acknowledge that the wrong iso was being downloaded. However trying to report the problem to Fedora was a total waste of time.
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Version: 37
Rating: 2
Date: 2023-03-11
Votes: 0
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Fedora 37 performs poorly in every aspect. It frequently crashes and when updated, strange error messages such as " /sbin/sysctl: No such file or directory" often appear. It is unfortunate that Fedora has become increasingly complicated to use and its overall performance, including basic internet use and Bluetooth settings, is considerably worse than other Linux distributions. Based on its current situation, I cannot recommend Fedora to anyone. It is a waste of time and installing this distribution will only lead to regret and countless hours spent on the Fedora forums trying to resolve issues. Unless you enjoy the challenge of searching for a needle in a haystack, it is best to avoid Fedora 37 and choose a different distribution with a more supportive user community and more user-friendly features. Currently, Fedora seems more suitable for a vintage operating systems museum rather than a functional operating system for daily use.
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Version: 37
Rating: 2
Date: 2023-03-10
Votes: 6
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Fedora 37 performs poorly in every aspect. It frequently crashes and when updated, strange error messages such as " /sbin/sysctl: No such file or directory" often appear. It is unfortunate that Fedora has become increasingly complicated to use and its overall performance, including basic internet use and Bluetooth settings, is considerably worse than other Linux distributions. Based on its current situation, I cannot recommend Fedora to anyone. It is a waste of time and installing this distribution will only lead to regret and countless hours spent on the Fedora forums trying to resolve issues. Unless you enjoy the challenge of searching for a needle in a haystack, it is best to avoid Fedora 37 and choose a different distribution with a more supportive user community and more user-friendly features. Currently, Fedora seems more suitable for a vintage operating systems museum rather than a functional operating system for daily use.
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Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-03-08
Votes: 0
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The "Gnome" version of Fedora bugs "Steam" at times but for gaming tested on an old pc over 11 years old, some games natively or with Proton which bugged with the usual Manjaro, MX... or W distros $$ won't work perfectly but better with Fedora...for gaming it's one of the best distros for me right now.
Some well-known software is missing from the Fedora software library which is present in the usual Linux distros...
For daily use, the "Gnome" workbench may confuse some users and seem impractical, but Fedora will remain perfectly fine for regular use without gaming.
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Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-02-27
Votes: 9
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After many years of distro hopping, I finally decided to stick with Fedora.
I have done that since one year now and I can't be more happy.
Currently I am using Fedora 37 and everything works out of the box on all my systems.
I even use Fedora in the cloud, now that CentOS is no longer supported.
Pros:
- stability
- availability of newer kernel (this means newer drivers for relatively new hardware)
- convenient application versions
- GNOME as developers intended (I love GNOME's simplicity and power)
Cons:
- dnf is a little bit too slow compared to apt and even zypper
Fedora is the foundation of RHEL, which is the "king" of enterprise Linux. This means that you will have all the tools you need for efficient management and work.
Did I say that everything just work? It does! No errors, no glitches, no freezes, nothing bad. I can get my work done without hassles. This is also the merit of GNOME, which is simple and powerful.
Fedora should get more love, as it is a very stable and leading edge distro.
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Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-02-23
Votes: 0
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I use Fedora 37 Mate, with additional applications like Nautilus, Musescore, Leaf, Gtick, PDf mod, pdf arranger, Audacity, VLC, Lingot, Okular, Kolour Paint, Gparted Softaware center Cairo Dock, Winff, guvciew sound recorder, and many more others. I don't use Gnome because it has incompatibilities with Mate.
I started with old Mandriva, used Ubuntu 7, 8, 9, 10; Zorin 10, 12, 15. I also use Zorin 16.
But since version 22 or 23 of Fedora I always have Fedora Mate on my PC and notebook.
Too bad Fedora doesn't run very well on my ASUS Tux with Ryzen 7 4800H and with Radeon and Nvidia 1650.
Very slow to open and I had to replace Fedora 37 with Mageia 9 beta Mate, Plasma, Gnome. All these Mageia and Zorin environments work best on Asus. Not always the best performer, but as my main pc is now an HP600 mini with i5 6500T, Fedora 37 runs very well. In both my pcs I usually have two systems that I think complement each other.
I thank everyone who contributes to this incredible development, I feel much more comfortable than on Windows whether it's 7, 10 or 11.
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Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-02-17
Votes: 3
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I have tried many distributions in the last few years and have actually always come back to Fedora, or switched back to Windows (mostly because of minor problems). Last time I tried Fedora Silverblue and everything runs pretty perfect. You can tinker and try out smaller problems and you can be sure that you can't break anything because of the Silverblue technology. If I want I can try a new Beta release and then roll back to the stable version a few days later. Thumbs up to the Fedora developers! Keep it up!
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Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-01-27
Votes: 3
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I deleted the "Gnome" version of "Fedora" and I installed "Cinnamon" instead thanks to a tutorial found on the net I have much less bugs (only one bug of the "Menu" bar solved by disabling an option in "Settings")
For the moment of all the distributions that I have tried based on "Debian" or "Arch" I have found that:
-My printer which is in Bluetooth configured and installed itself even the scanner works.
-My audio headset also in Bluetooth after being paired works better than on other distributions even if there too it disconnects sometimes but much more rarely.
-Some games that work a little badly under Win$$ and even more badly on the usual Linux distros...will work better even if it's not perfect under "Fedora".
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Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-24
Votes: 11
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Okay, let me break it down for you guys...
After 20 years of using Linux, there are only FOUR Linux distros worth using: Slackware, Debian, Mint and Fedora. These are the ONLY distros that actually get out of your way and resemble an OS made by a professional organisation. Fedora, in particular, has a gorgeous, understated elegance; the only distro that's default install looks better than Windows and Apple. Other distros try to be different but just add unnecessary clutter and bling that is beyond obnoxious or try to be "linuxy" by making it an absolute to install and run.
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Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-14
Votes: 7
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What an absolute amazing distro! Has the great balance of being stable for performance but still having up to date with it's "semi-rolling release" structure. Security is well known as well with SELinux implemented by default and common firewall applications installed with frequent updates from a greatly funded and well known organization being Fedora Project/Red Hat, following with great documentation about further hardening security and basic pracitices with also recent vulnerabilities/issues being posted. Further speaking of documentation, I'd say it's decent and large enough and getting even more extensive with it expanding rapidly since it's recent rise in popularity the past couple of years. So finding support without having to risk asking a question on a platform to get b****ed at by the toxic portion of the community is a great aspect to consider. Not saying this is unique to Fedora Linux, but any major desktop Linux operating system has great support and documentation so common issues can be quickly/easily remedied, Fedora is a great example as well as Ubuntu, Debian, and OpenSUSE. Getting drivers and utilizing proprietary hardware is easy to enable and set up (literally a menu with some options to tick in RPM manager) so getting Nvidia drivers isn't a massive headache of a hunt to go through and get then to install if you need it. The community with Fedora luckily hasn't been as bad/toxic of an experience when having to ask for help and general questions on their OFFICIAL platforms/forums and the like, not saying they don't exist every community/group has that aspect but as said previously mentioned this doesn't seem to be as often. Another mention I'd like to mention is switching desktop environments is pretty much an absolute breeze and can get the most up to date version (I usually main Cinnamon) and default packs the most up to date GNOME which I'd argue is now a great experience in it's own right. And of course it's official page leads to spins you can download which is just base Fedora but with a different DE loaded if you're a bit lazy. I'd highly recommend this for a stable, up to date, and secure desktop operating system.
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Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-01-05
Votes: 2
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My Machine is a Lenovo Thinkcentre M92 Desktop with 8GB RAM and an i5 processor (somewhat old).
I'm probably a little bit above average (in normie land) when it comes to being computer and internet savvy but at the end of the day I'm just a script kiddy. I can't be bothered learning the nuts and bolts of Linux to any great degree.
I tried installing Debian (as I believed it to be similar to Fedora in terms of privacy and security, and I was aware a lot more apps, such as Signal, are built for Debian) but just found it to be too time consuming and overly complicated to install, so abandoned it.
I'm currently using Fedora 37 Compiz Mate and so far it's the best of all worlds.
Default Fedora 37 (Gnome) is great but slows this machine too much. Even XFCE Fedora 37 is a bit laggy on this machine.
LXQT and LXQT Fedora 37 are good to use on this machine speed wise but nowhere near as crisp and enjoyable to look at as Fedora 37 Compiz Mate.
Installing Fedora 37 Compiz Mate was a breeze for me. However I would say an absolute Linux beginner would probably get confused at the partitioning stage of the installation. That probably could be made a little more "dummy-proof" for a default setup.
One thing I can't seem to install is Signal Messenger (not a version maintained by Signal itself anyway).
All in all as a relative Linux dummy, after having tried maybe a dozen or so distros, I'm really liking Fedora 37 Compiz Mate.
I also like what I read about Fedora's privacy policy.
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Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-03
Votes: 3
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In 1999 I started using the Red Hat retail distribution, RH5.1. I've used Red Hat retail through RH9. Fedora was pretty uneven from FC1 through FC4, but I've used Fedora since FC5. GNOME 2.0 was fine. The only major glitch in my Fedora use came in 2011 with Fedora adopting GNOME 3.0. I hated (and still hate) GNOME 3.x and its successors. Since then, and up to the present (F37), the standard install here has been Fedora/XFCE. On the software front, there have been few problems:
(1) gcc has been reliable throughout
(2) xBASE support has been reliable, even though I've changed the compiler: Flagship -> xHarbour -> Harbour
(3) Python has been mostly reliable (except for the pretty rough transition Python2 -> Python3 (.... not caused by the Fedora team) )
One serious problem has been the transition from GTK3 to GTK4.....which is a problem caused by Red Hat. I have a lot of Glade/GTK3 applications written in both Python and C. GTK4 (adopted by Red Hat) is not backward compatible with GTK3. As a consequence the Glade team refuse to move off GTK3. So I am forced to consider two options: a) stay on Glade/GTK3 .... or b) rewrite everything using GTK4. I've chosen option a).....even though it will probably mean I'm stuck in a dead end! It seems to me that the RH/Fedora team are doing nothing to help me with this problem.
Overall, Fedora has been an excellent environment since FC5 up till F37 today. Recommended! .... but see comments above!
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Version: 37
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-12-23
Votes: 4
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I'm using KDE Spin for my daily use for 3 months. It works flawlessly on my hardware (cpu ryzen 5 3500x, gpu rx6600)
I play steam games, get some JS development done, dockerize some stuff...
So far I havent got any breaking bugs, kde version is way better than gnome in terms of stability.
You have to configure dnf and add fusion packages. as people have mentioned its better not to mix fusion with flats, update center can get finicky after that.
Absolutely recommend this distro's kde spin for daily use and get stuff done.
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Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-12-17
Votes: 4
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I started using Red Hat at 5.1 but drifted away to the lure of Debian's apt and synaptic package management. Fedora has come a long way and now is my daily use system. It has been very reliable but time and upgrades will tell. Having used MX for a few years i can say this Fedora version is offers some interesting features:
* Bios settings are evaluated post install for security
* Suspend and resume function as it should
* Skype and Zoom are supported
* Flatpak is supported, and this is a game changer
* Gnome bias, but very well done.
Some things that need improvement:
* Software install via GUI is slow, console using dnf for installing is fast, they really need synaptic
* Multimedia codecs need to be installed manually, after enabling Fusion repository is enabled
* Firewall needs to be installed manually
This distribution has good hardware support and is very stable. Most popular packages are a click way and tons of support online. great to see Fedora come out with a great base. This distribution is the Cheerios version of Linux which is all right by me.
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Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-12-12
Votes: 5
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Installed just fine on three laptops and one desktop computer.
Opted for the KDE Spin and it's awesome. Too many issues with GNOME.
Once I got the Fusion Free, Fusion Non-Free and Flathub repositories put in place that's all I needed to do.
Don't have nVidia graphics thankfully so didn't have to deal with that headache.
It recognized all my hardware except the WiFi on my old MacBook. Just had to install broadcom-wl and after reboot, I was in business.
I use this for casual, work and play. No issues no complaints.
Thanks!
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Version: 37
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-12-09
Votes: 0
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Fedora 37 breaks immediately after install
Yesterday, I wanted to install some editions of Fedora on my device, Lenovo Legion 5 AMD Ryzen 5 4600H with NVIDIA RTX 2060 GPU. Once I checked live user environment, everything seemed to run fine. I spared some space on my SSD to install Fedora and used default partition for Fedora. After installation process had already done, I proceed to reboot my device. Everything ran OK when my device booted to GRUB menu. But, it could not continue booting as initial setup process didn't run fluently and could not continue to desktop after login! I tried for second time using rescue kernel, but it was scarier: My device's fan started screaming and seemed to kill itself, so I shut it down immediately.
It was not once and I tried many spins of Fedora: Cinnamon, MATE, XFCE, and KDE, all of that ran awfully. It was a TERRIBLE experience to use a such stable distro. What a shame!
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Version: 37
Rating: 4
Date: 2022-12-06
Votes: 0
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Fedora has a big problem for users. I just installed it and normally it worked out of the box on everything. My new Ryzen HP Omen 30 Nvdia 3080 16 GB Ram. Under Fedora 37 it CANNOT play it's connected external speakers as loud as they can play in windows. I have now spent several hours of my life that I can't get back and many days on the forums trying to figure this out and how to fix. No one seems to know either why my volume is so limited. THIS IS TERRIBLE!
There is no reason why a more modern and more powerful computer cannot outdo Windows out of the box under a linux distribution. Apparently this problem is not limited to Fedora but the same issue occurs under MInt. I have spent several days now exchanging communication with the community and no one has any answers. It is not a hardware issue involving the same speakers. The same speakers work excellent and as expected under windows.
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Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-12-06
Votes: 1
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Spin Cinnamon
I'll make it short: Just as fast as the Fedora workstation (with Gnome) the Cinnamon edition can be installed. Cinnamon is tailored for daily use, very stable and never gets in the way of daily use. Hardware (printer, scanner, wifi) work out of the box.
In this respect everything is fine.
Only: Why instead of the Linux Mint Software Center the old-fashioned dnfdragora is installed, I cannot understand. It's slow, confusing, unattractive and doesn't offer much. Flatpak or Flathub cannot be created in dnfdragora. Solution 1: Install the needed software via the webface of Flathub (via terminal). Solution 2: Install the Gnome Software Center. This way Flathub can be installed and used. Therefore one point deduction from the ten it would have deserved. Overall, I find the combination of Cinnamon and Fedora great for daily use: Both very stable and up to date.
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Version: 37
Rating: 5
Date: 2022-12-04
Votes: 0
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Not able to install. When a new partition is being created its size is automatically fixed at 256 MB, I do not how and why. This is when the user actually puts a size of 75GB, even then it does not take it and relapses to 256 MB. Another issue is that it does not go to next step if an additional partition for boot/efi is not created/not available!
I am currently using debian based Emmabuntus and I want another one RPM based distro. The fedora and many based on it demand a similar situation for installation as stated above, that is they all have the common installer, anaconda, and it does not make a difference what the distro is, if it is based on RPM. I just tried nobara and it meets the same end.
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Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-12-01
Votes: 10
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I recommend Fedora, because it is getting better and better with each release, but without any major unpleasant surprises. It is very open source focused, so some things may seem like an unpleasant surprise, but then you understand the reasons and it seems fine. Anyways, there are always some workarounds.
I feel that Fedora also listens to the community very much. Those who make decisions about this distro listen to the community feedback, and the distro seems to be very coherent with needs of professionals and enthusiasts who use Fedora.
Fedora users and developers care and love this distro, that is why the releases may be delayed, so the system is released with everything secure and working fine,
It is very stable, works fine on my Dell laptop. I installed workstation, but I am very interested to test and use Silverblue for a while, and other versions. With new ARM and CoreOS versions Fedora is adding to its own "ecosystem".
I recommend this distro, but it is not for super beginners. You need to know how to configure it fine. Once it is configured, it will work perfectly well, the updates do not break (from my experience in previous years).
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Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-11-28
Votes: 0
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For me a lot of improvements have been made to this version 37 compared to the previous one which I hated.
"Fedora" 37 works pretty well if you don't mix RPM and flatpak packages.
For usual use of a pc: office automation, internet etc... "Fedora" works without problems.
My printer after downloading and installing the manufacturer's RPM drivers also works without problems.
My Bluetooth headset like every Linux distribution sometimes disconnects for no reason whatever I do...
For gaming I was surprised to find that some games that work quite badly with some distros work quite well with "Fedora 37".
On the other hand I found Steam quite buggy but it may be my fault because I mixed my system with RPM and Flatpak packages...
I recommend this distro.
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Version: 37
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-11-28
Votes: 0
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I am posting this because I do not know where else to post it and I thought it would be of interest. I bought, after running an I5 for 10-12 to years. an I7-12700, and I bought it because it was rehabbed and it was a good price. I had some problems with cheap flash drives and errors, so testing is not completed, but so far Fedora 37 is the first distro that sort of works except for sound, but I think that may be fixed soon. I was very surprised because it was the first distro to work and I tried several. I also tested some rolling releases, and ClearOS, but the rolling releases did not have live ones to try, and I had problems with Etcher failing and trusting it when it worked. I am running Ubuntu on the I5, and Tumbleweed on a laptop. It may be amusing to know that when it started working I saw so many distros that I thought it rebooted and that Windows 11 was running, but it was not and it was Fedora 37 after all.
Because I thought Windows 11 was working and I had no sound I tried to fix it and then I tried all my old headsets including usb ones, playing with sound, and trying to fix the speakers. Finally when I could not solve the problem, I had no recourse, but to give up trying to fix the problem and reboot Windows and hope that solved the problem, only then I noticed it was not Windows 11, but Fedora that was running.
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Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-11-27
Votes: 9
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I thought Fedora was a "fad", I was reluctant to try it, but I did and I'm in love. It is a deep love. Fedora does everything right: it has the stability and dependability of Debian, it has the speed to install packages and update like Arch. I have had no problems with Wi-Fi, hardware, or printer. All good, all fast on the Cinammon desktop (I don't like Gnome). Like Debian or Opensuse, you have to configure things after installing the distro, but learning is very easy (it's not Gentoo). I have 4 different distros on my pc sharing the "home" folder: arch, debian, opensuse and fedora. On another pc I have gentoo. I give fedora a 10. I'm sorry I fell in love with you so late, Fedora!!!! Eternal love!!! Eternal Flame!!!!
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Version: 37
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-11-26
Votes: 3
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I wished moving to Fedora for the reason that apps are mostly up to date. BUT what can I say!! A BIG NOOOO. It is not for me.
First, I installed Fedora 36, because I want to install MikTeX (there is no F37 repository). But after upgrading to F37, MikTeX was marked with unresolved dependencies. So, I do a fresh F37 install and install Texlive.
My wifi card connect only to 2.4GHz frequency, the 5Ghz band is not working (however, it works fine with ubuntu).
The clarity of the fonts, and the contrast, are terrible. Just open a (long) text in the text editor and see how dull are the colors-black (your eyes get tired). Switching to dark mode solve the problem, BUT in the other hand, reading PDF become very painful and the office writer become ridiculous.
I have also invested too much time installing extensions apps, the fonts, install new icons, Dash to panel, ... Finally, my desktop can actually be used (not really satisfied because random wallpaper is not working). Also, some file icon not working, e.g. I installed keepassxc but no icon for the .kdbx files, same thing for the Tex files (so, it is difficult to find a Tex file because it is similar to the others auxiliary generated files).
Sometimes, I get a pop-up with this message: "Oops, it looks like a problem has occurred ..." (unexpected system error; nautils quit unexpectedly; totem-video-thumnailer quit unexpectedly).
I've installed the audio and video codecs, still some movies crashes. So, I installed VLC; no crash but video lag.
I know that these things (and maybe others) can be solved (manually), but I'm afraid when upgrading, I return to the starting point again !!
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Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-11-24
Votes: 2
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As a few years linux user (ubuntu, debian, linuxmint, manjaro, opensuse leap and tumbleeed etc.) Fedora with gnome environment and spin with kde for about 2 months. As for the gnome workstation, it's literally a revelation, generally without bugs. Easy to install and use, updates from F36 to 37 flawlessly without using terminal via gnome software. I have a 12 year old laptop with an i5 processor and 4gb ram. Minimum temperatures, responsive, when I run the video it automatically directs me to install the H.265 codec, a few seconds and it works. There are no problems with the media. As for me, an ordinary user, Worstation is a simple and stable machine.
As for the KDE spin, things are a bit worse here. It generally works and there is no such thing as a blue screen of death with windows. Requires some tweaking in the terminal. Need to add RPM Fusion in terminal (fedora provides detailed what and how). You can also search in the discower software, but it never worked for me, it's supposed to be but you can't upload. The dragon movie player does not work here, you must install the required codecs in the terminal, also described in the fedora help, but it's really simple. However, dragon doesn't meet my requirements (doesn't rotate videos) so I also install vlc in the terminal. The already installed dnfdragora (ala synaptic) will help us to install the libreoffice language file and ffmpegthumbs to preview the videos (later in the file settings you need to select it). I have one error for which I can't find a solution at the moment, i.e. sometimes the screen with the panel disappears for literally a second, two as if it was reloading. In addition, the system is light, fast and everything works smoothly. I've used tumbleweed with kde before, it's also very good and stable, but I'm annoyed by its dependencies when uninstalling programs, e.g. when I uninstall firefox, it automatically installs Mozilla Thunderbird for me. I recommend this system even for beginners especially gnome.
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Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-11-23
Votes: 1
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I am a novice linux user, need to make that clear.
Installation is easy but a bit unintuitive as far as storage is concerned. I found it hard to just erase the drive through the installer, it wanted to shrink the partitions, and used the disk tool to clear all partitions. Switched back to the installer, it looked like it understood that the drive contents had changed, but it crashed. Could not find a way to restart the installer through menu's, but I found out it was still running, I think I alt-tabbed. Went smooth from there.
OOB experience is great, installed what I needed, even Steam. Rock solid experience. This was a test install on an older A8 AMD system, to check it out after hearing good things about Fedora. Still much to learn and see as far as linux and Fedora in particular goes, but I think I will make the switch in the near future.
So here it is, a novice users recommendation. Smooth sailing. Fast and rock solid so far. I will use it on the side for a few more days, and if everything goes like the experience I had so far, will switch my main pc to Fedora as well.
Linux has come a long way, I'm glad to say. Great job Fedora devs.
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Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-11-23
Votes: 92
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In my opinion, KDE should be the flagship desktop environment for Fedora not GNOME. It's lighter, faster, way more modern and familiar, not prone to the issues of extensions and looks great on a smaller screen (great scalability). GNOME is overly bloated, puffy, fat with its windows theme and is basically unusable on a small screen.
That being said, using Fedora KDE Spin for work and play and couldn't be happier!
OnlyOffice is my office suite of choice and is excellent by the way. With Steam installed I can play Guild Wars 2 along with a ton of other games.
There is nothing to NOT like about Fedora. It really is fantastic. I even installed it on my 2012 MacBook Pro. XD
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Version: 37
Rating: 4
Date: 2022-11-23
Votes: 8
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Fedora Workstation 37.
It is certain that Fedora is getting better, but still far from being a good alternative for Windows users; here are some complaints:
- Basic things should be installed by default (like some popular fonts, otherwise some apps won't work as expected) or for example giving an alternative to 'Timeshift' since it is not compatible with Fedora BTRFS (you do not expect the newbie user to spend hours to figure it out or learning command line BTRFS).
- The Gnome file experience is very limited: no bookmarks, no open as root, no folder color, no emblems, no plugins, ... Also, Gnome extension is a must (Fedora should follow ROSA Linux in this point), a newbie user ignores all this, the names of good extensions even perhaps how to add the weather extension.
- Nvidia's hardware decoding is not working. Also, the default 'Gnome videos' is bad (lagging, no H.265 support) and no good players are provided in the software center !!
- Software center always suggests Flatpak by default instead of the Fedora RPM (why !!)
- Some applications interfaces are not pleasant in Fedora (for comparison, I've tested Maple 2022 in Fedora 37 vs Linux Mint 21)
- In general, Fedora is not well suited for old computers, and users with limited Internet.
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Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-11-19
Votes: 8
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For context, my prior Linux experience goes back to 2005 and includes significant time with SUSE, Debian (on a server), ArchBang, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (servers), Lubuntu, and Manjaro. Three months ago, after nine months of running Manjaro Xfce on my Framework (11th Gen Intel) laptop, I decided to hop over to Fedora with GNOME for a variety of reasons.
One of my reasons was wanting better support for both hardware and software. Framework has developed a relationship with Fedora and the Framework-Fedora community of users is relatively large, so it’s well-tested. The installation instructions from Framework include turning on, for example, the experimental fractional scaling feature in Wayland GNOME which works well and helps with the odd 3000x2000 Framework display. I’ve also routinely found that the software I need officially supports only Ubuntu or Fedora, so it’s nice to be in one of those camps.
I broke my first installation of Fedora by screwing around to disable the splash screen, show the GRUB menu on every boot, and increase the font size. After re-installing, I decided to just accept the defaults. The only issue is that maybe 1 in 10 times the graphical text box for my LUKS password doesn’t show up. At first I thought the system was frozen, but it’s just waiting for the password, and I press ESC to enter it on the terminal with its tiny font. I’m deducting one point for this.
Everything else looks and feels slick so far. I’ve come to appreciate the opinionated style of vanilla GNOME and the offline updates feature (where it installs updates after rebooting into a special state) through the graphical GNOME Software.
One thing that pleasantly surprised me is that it gets very frequent updates. It’s a point release distro like something in the Debian family, so I expected somewhat infrequent updates, but its kernels and packages stay about as up-to-date as something in the rolling release Arch family. You could update daily if you wanted, but it only pushes a notification every other week unless there’s a critical security update (which produces an immediate notification).
I was slightly nervous about the release upgrade from 36 to 37, but that went smoothly. It took no longer than a normal offline update of the kernel and packages, and I haven’t found anything broken in the first few days.
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Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-11-16
Votes: 9
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Impeccable upgrade to version 37 - KDE desktop
Professional:
Stability
Clarity
The latest news
Support and exchanges on the forums
Cons:
Nothing
Fedora is meant to be reserved primarily for hardcore IT people, yet it can be used by people looking for a complete office and everyday solution.
The distro is less messy than others, we find the info quickly. Desktop integration is perfect, at least for KDE and Gnome.
To be tested in VM or by USB if you wish. Criticism on other messages, I have nothing negative to say about Fedora 37, which I tested for 1 month in Beta.
Yes, for the road: the forums bring together a lot of hardcore computer scientists, polite but less understanding than in other more open and sociable communities. It's cold but they respond very quickly so that's good too...
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Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-11-15
Votes: 9
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Upgraded without a hitch!
What can I say, Fedora has been great for as long as I've been using it (KDE Spin) and well deserving of a 10 out of 10 rating. I have dove into other distros to try them out but it's always felt like a step backwards.
Fedora works and works very very well. Stable, fresh and feels very much like a commercial operating system. They care about their product. Meaning, if it isn't ready, they don't deploy it.
This is an every day use, daily driver, whatever you want to call it, system you can rely on. And if it breaks because you're someone that likes to dink with things, that's on you.
Coming from Windows? Give Fedora KDE Spin a try. You may wonder why you didn't sooner.
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Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-11-15
Votes: 9
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Simply the best.
Pros -
The install process with Anaconda once you carry it out a few times is one of the best.
It just works.
All of the spins are very usable.
You can install a minimum system from the everything ISO and build what you want.
The forums are all supportive.
Cons -
None really all Linux distributions are good -it is all personal preference.
Gnome 43 is very good and user friendly, for vanilla Gnome you cannot go wrong Gnome as Gnome devs meant it to be.
However, you can tweak it to you own requirements.
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Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-11-14
Votes: 3
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*My* distribution. Founded on a leading-edge, not bleeding-edge philosophy, Fedora has great stability, and is well-suited for the desktop; more so than a distribution such as Ubuntu, in my opinion. Workstation (GNOME) and other "spins" (which use KDE Plasma and other desktop environments) all have great support, and are only expanding (there are plans for a dedicated Budgie spin, soon). Fedora has great respect for free software and privacy, and thus has repositories which are solely based on it; if one wants to install non-free software, however, it can easily be done with RPMFusion, which boasts a collection of RPM files for drivers, applications, and other utilities. I personally do not see any issues with Fedora in my regular desktop usage of it, and have found it to be flawless! The DNF package manager, which some people complained about in the past, due to its speed, has now vastly improved, and will be rewritten in C++ for a lightning-fast experience. RPM has proven to be an incredibly useful tool, which tons of features for quality-of-life; installations, kernel updates, etc., have been refined for the user.
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Version: 36
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-11-06
Votes: 3
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Many things have been said. For my part, I appreciate the extreme stability of Fedora while offering advanced software. On this last point Fedora is nevertheless catching up, I think. But the innovation/stability ratio remains excellent. Version 37 is postponed to mid-November to verify a security flaw in OpenSSL, which is a sign of seriousness.
Professional:
- Excellent integration of the Gnome desktop, an efficient KDE version even if objectively we could prefer openSUSE in this area (which consumes more resources on the other hand)
- Very good stability for work and also creation
- A very lively and helpful community.
- A good structuring and coherence, compared to many Debian-like which will seem chaotic next to it.
- And therefore a very high reactivity in the event of a problem, which will be quickly resolved...
Cons:
- Fedora remains "exclusive" for other Linux distros, not easy to install in dual boot...
- The Gnome desktop put forward divides the community: it is in my opinion the best version (excellent integration) nevertheless. Virtualization under Gnome, for example, works with disconcerting ease and speed!
- Some unfortunate choices in DNF concerning a (little) slowness, you have to use nano and some commands to make it faster.
I'm alternating between Gnome and KDE depending on what I'm doing, I haven't tested the other desktops. Cinammon under Fedora enjoys a good reputation...
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Version: 36
Rating: 4
Date: 2022-11-05
Votes: 13
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I really wanted to enjoy Fedora.
I've dabbled with Fedora a few times before, and it way okay. But I quickly moved on to other distros.
Today I decided to try installing it again and, while it ran great at first, it ended up breaking on me fairly quickly.
DNF is overall, a slow package manager, while making some tweaks to its settings does significantly improve it, it will never compete with the likes of Pacman and APT.
Software availability out of the box is limited, although it is not too much work to enable RPM fusion and Flathub (which will require a trip to the terminal), I would much prefer for there to be more software options out of the box.
Maybe it was me who made a mistake which caused the system to break, but the fact that it did means I cannot rate it any higher than a 4.
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Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-10-28
Votes: 31
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One thing that I absolutely love about Fedora is its consistency. This is a no nonsense operating system. It does take some effort to get the additional repositories going (Free, Non-Free, Flathub). But the effort is pretty minor. Once that is done, there is nothing else to do except use it. You're good to go!
There are some tweaks you can do. Such as "speed up" DNF. However, they are not necessary. Perhaps for the nit picky...
I've installed this for friends, family and myself (KDE Spin). No complaints, no issues. These are average computer users. Not power users or tinkerers so there has been no breaking anything. They, and myself, just use it as intended.
This is top notch and has a very professional feel. It is it's own thing and not dependent on some other base distribution. It gives Linux a very good name for those getting into Linux.
Hands down my go to operating system and the one I recommend to those asking about Linux.
Very grateful to the Fedora team for this free and awesome OS.
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Version: 36
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-09-30
Votes: 10
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Solid operating system. I can see why many people use it as their main operating system. But not for me.
Setting it up is a pain the arse:
- The installer wasn't very intuitive.
- By default it lacks important software (like codecs to watch videos in the browser) and had to use rmp fussion. I didn't know what was the issue so it was added time for research.
- It was frustrating to install the first packages with a slow internet. I live in a rural area with limited bandwidth (10Mb/s). The software center is slow, and took too long to display available applications. Also flatpak runtimes are heavy.
I have issues with audio devices, they system stopped playing or recorfing audio whenever I pluged/unpluged my headset. Hopefully it'll improve in future versions.
Now, credit where credit is due.:
- Fedora has a solid UEFI integration, updated my BIOS and there were no problems with boot.
- After the initial setup, installing aplications is mostly painless.
- Every 3rd party software I needed outside the repos provided and RPM package which was handled by the software center. It works better than every other debian based distro I've tried.
- I can game PERFECTLY on Steam. I can't emphazise how smooth it is (native steam, not flatpak).
Unfortunately the software center speeds and the audio problems are a deal breaker for me. I'll keep Solus as my main OS (I came to appreciate how good it's package manager is). However I'm very surprised by Fedora and for some people it'll be the perfect distro for their needs. I'll keep it aroung to check how it evolves. No doubt it'll keep improving.
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Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-09-24
Votes: 27
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I used Fedora since version 28 or 29. I tried other distros too; bu I always keep coming back to Fedora for it's intuitiveness, ease of installation and user-friendly problem solving via great online documentation, great versatility and compatibility, DNS package manager (which I love) and its constant updates than never make you feel you are on your own (even if once in a while it breaks because of the "Bleeding edge" philosophy inevitably implying bugs), I hope to see Fedora growing in popularity and the amazing work done by its developers to be recognized by its breakthrough to the mainstream, while always retaining its amazing ethos :)
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Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-09-20
Votes: 3
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Almost perfect...
Pros : Besides functionality, stability, features, how it works under the hood, and how cutting-edge it is, I think what makes or breaks a distro are those intangibles, like documentation and the community. And Fedora has it all… especially the intangibles.
Fedora Workstation focuses on the desktop, and in particular, it’s geared toward users who want a “just works” Linux operating system experience. As usual, Fedora Workstation features the latest GNOME release: GNOME 42. While it doesn’t completely provide the answer to life, the universe, and everything, GNOME 42 brings a lot of improvements.
Cons: Legacy Installer (Anaconda)
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Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-09-19
Votes: 20
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Using Fedora 36 KDE Spin and absolutely love it.
There's a lot of complaints here about the installer but I didn't have any issues with it. But I'm also not an advanced user either so maybe that's why?
I've tried a the usual Debian and Ubuntu based distributions out there but found them just a tad too behind for my taste. Additionally, Ubuntu just has too much controversy behind it as well as GNOME. Too bad cause both have a ton of positives. And Arch based stuff... no thank you. Way too many complications.
All I want is a system that's up to date, stable, drama free and all my hardware works after installation. Fedora KDE Spin gives me that. I'm not a tinkerer nor a control freak. I'm a simple install it and use it user.
So if you're someone looking to explore and eventually break free outside of the Microsoft realm, I recommend Fedora KDE spin. It's easy to install, easy to use, looks great, stable, up to date and relevant. Toss in OnlyOffice and you're good to go!
Thank you Fedora team for such a great product!
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Version: 36
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-09-18
Votes: 1
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I like it. That's it. SELinux is bothering me. Anything else is running just fine. I'm using preferably the Cinnamon spin. Have it installed on several machines including a server with the server edition running on it. Always have the most recent stable kernel here very quick.
When using the workstation installation with Gnome desktop I agree with whom who complains about the annoying update / reboot process reminding me of Windows as well. In Cinnamon I can use dnfdragora and can reboot anytime later on my own as other distros allow as well.
@fedora-project: Keep up the good work!
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Version: rawhide
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-09-15
Votes: 4
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Okay, so I had used Fedora in the past. But for whatever reason, I wasn't aware Silverblue even existed. Someone on a chat forum mentioned it, and after investigating it, I thought, "let's give this one a go."
I opted for the Silverblue rawhide version, which is a very unique distro. You combine bleeding edge with a read only file system and rely on Flathub for apps. It's also very much bloat free. For example, installing Gnome on a standard SUSE install loads up your install with apps I neither want nor asked for.
Updating the system is insanely fast, with the only "downside" being that you must reboot to activate the new read only file system. I can live with that. Also, because it's Rawhide, there are frequent updates. It isn't that bad in practice despite what it sounds like.
I am in love with this distro. Truly amazing and futuristic.
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Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-09-08
Votes: 7
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everything works perfect, as simple as installing a program from the terminal or from software, and everything will work.
The only change I usually make is to enable RPMfusion and add flathub, everything else just works.
I have tried other distributions like ubuntu, manjaro, arch, pop_os! among others. but I usually look for 2 things.
1. The first is that it should be easy to install packages (and that they exist), so it should be a distro with apt or rpm package manager.
2. The second is that it has a vanilla gnome based desktop (I find KDE comfortable, but it's not what I'm looking for, at least for the use I give to my computer), one of the reasons why I usually discard ubuntu (besides the fact that I dislike the current situation with snap, although I'm waiting for a future where my opinion will change).
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Version: 36
Rating: 2
Date: 2022-09-01
Votes: 0
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When in a Live USB, it proved to be ok. But when installed on the machine, it was probably the slowest distro I've ever used.
It updates like Windows, upgrades, reboot and then, ages before booting with "Installing Updates".
Finally, it doesn't run Simutrans very well.
I'm a "fan" of the GNOME desktop, but Fedora exaggerates a bit. Fedora is already a name in the Linux world, but if you already have a little bit of Linux experience, you should know that a name doesn't make a good distro, and saying that it exists since 199x, doesn't make it work better.
Perhaps it will work for you, and will be your life's distro. But for me, it didn't.
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Version: 36
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-08-25
Votes: 20
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Just switched from Ubuntu 22.04 to Fedora 36 and I'm loving it. Don't get me wrong, Ubuntu is alright, but I feel that Fedora is more polished, responsive, and overall more usable than Ubuntu.
It's really fast, stable enough and I like the way it doesn't try to make the user go with neither Snap or Flatpak apps. The latest vanilla GNOME version feels great to use, and it's good to always have all the new stuff in the Linux world available to you.
The only downside is the high resource consumption. I'd recommend not using Fedora if you have less than 8 gigs of memory.
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Version: 36
Rating: 6
Date: 2022-08-07
Votes: 5
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Too many problems, was working perfectly at version 35 but now everything is messed up...
fedora KDE spin version 36:
- sometimes doesn't fully boot (stuck at back screen)
- wireless network adapter didn't work out of the box anymore (managed to compile driver myself but wifi wasn't stable)
- In version 35 it detected my network printer (Brother) now it didn't and it was a big hassle to compile and install the drivers to get it working
- Some updates kept installing over and over again, it would ask for a reboot to complete the update and then the same updates are next boot again installing...
- It doesn't allow to install free software like VLC trough the app store only if you download the rpm or trough terminal...
- After installing Netbeans it didn't show up between my applications like it was never installed
i decided to pull the plug and wasn't gonna wait for any fixes.
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Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-08-05
Votes: 0
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Fedora MATE Compiz Desktop is a serious competitor to windows 7 or 10.
My only worry is that the developers will brake things in fedora 37.
Just make this version better by security, as a server and more stable like redhat.
It is stable and pleasure to work with, never saw before such a distribution.
No bugs.
First time I feel I can change from windows 7 ( the king of desktops ).
All small details got the attention, you feel this is it. they finally did it right.
Microsoft desktop real competitor.
This is the winner !
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Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-08-04
Votes: 3
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Fantasic Distro
After using many different distros this one worked perfect in every department. Rock solid in stability, performance and features and has very up to date drivers and kernel.
I'm using the KDE SPIN and its great. Once you do all updates and tweaking and such its wonderful and looks better than windows as well stable. More fun to use and gaming is great on it and fast.
So far I'd have to rate my experince thus far as follows;
#1.Fedora KDE
#2.Zorin
#3.Mint Cinnamon
#4.Manjaro KDE
#5.POP_OS
#6.ARCOLINUX
#7.EndeavourOS
#8.Solus
#9.Linux Lite
#10.Ubuntu
Hope my review helps people.
Running mine off a Lenovo Laptop 12Gigs Ram and AMD Ryzen 5500 APU 256SSD
Thank You
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Version: 36
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-08-02
Votes: 6
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Fedora 36 KDE Spin for the win!
PROS
- Independent.
Fedora is it's own thing. Not something from something else therefore not susceptible or effected by politics outside of itself (such as Ubuntu based distributions).
- Easy to use.
Once installed, it's really a no brainer (KDE Spin). Let's you know when there's updates. There's a software center. Everything is there.
- Relevant.
Wayland. PipeWire. Kernels are current. Desktop environments are up to date. Anything newly released is implemented within a few weeks generally.
- Stable.
Updates and upgrades have not been an issue in my experience. Feels very professional like using Windows or MacOS.
CONS
-Desktop Environment.
GNOME is the default. Much like Ubuntu, it makes some questionable decisions that have a damaging effect on many distributions.
-Installer.
What's odd is how the installer doesn't seem to fit the rest of the system. Whilst everything POST install is recent and up to date, the installer is ancient and clunky.
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Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-08-01
Votes: 7
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Installed Fedora Workstation 36 on a used laptop. The laptop is 12 years old: Dell, Latitude E6420, i5 2.3 Ghz, 16 Gigs Ram, 256 Gigs SSD memory. Eveything works fine. All hardware peripherals worked. Highly recommended. Completletly removed Windows 10 by deleting all the partitions when I did the permanent install. I am surprised at how easy the installation was. Also, FYI, I tried to install Ubuntu. It got error messages about the audio. It would not even load the test installation. It locked up. However, Fedora Workstation 36 loaded just fine. For me, this one is a keeper.
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Version: 36
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-07-30
Votes: 2
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Basically the very definition of nightly operating system, packages update constantly with little to no effect on user experience, which actually meaningless most of the time. Half a year is way too much, twice more frequent than popular paid commercial software, stability depends on luck. Even Microsoft Windows has moved back to 3 years release cycle. I do not recommend Fedora as it treat users as beta testers, it is not a reliable solution to desktop computing. Personally I went back to Windows 7, when Linux distributions start to separate system update and software update, I will come back.
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Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-07-26
Votes: 7
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I will be focusing on how it has been to move from Arch-based distros like Manjaro and EndeavourOS to Fedora 36. I can say that Fedora has really changed my perspective on Linux distributions.
It used to be that Arch Linux and it's derivatives were the only real choice for gamers because you were getting the latest graphics drivers and packages. This was necessary due to the rapid progress in Linux gaming at the dawn of Valve's Proton compatibility tool. However, in the present, you don't strictly need the latest packages to run most games on Linux. Fedora provides a superb balance between rock solid stable and bleeding edge where most of the time I don't have to wait any longer for updates than I did on Manjaro, like for example the newest KDE Plasma release. To emulate this, some Arch-based distros have a delayed stable repository, but this cripples one of their biggest selling points and usually doesn't make the system any more stable.
What I also love about Fedora is that it pushes new standards and technologies like Pipewire and Wayland. So far I haven't had any major complications with Pipewire and Wayland is slowly getting there, but I still mainly use X11 because I have an NVIDIA GPU. In a way, this makes Fedora more up to date than some Arch-based distros for a while.
I have a life. Building my own pseudo-distro out of Arch Linux is time I could be spending with my friends playing games or building projects. I had a classmate that unironically started out on base Arch Linux on a Macbook Pro and it was honestly painful to see so much time spent on configuring his tiling window manager as opposed to something more productive like actually paying attention in the classes he was barely passing. In that sense, I am very comfortable with using Fedora because everything works pretty much OOTB.
I wish the Fedora team the best of luck. I will stick around for the foreseeable future.
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Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-07-23
Votes: 1
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Fedora Workstation Gnome 36 is a wonderfully stable system that is highly recommended for everyday use. Scanner worked immediately, the printer was also recognized, but had to be deleted, and then recognized as a new printer functional. One should follow the short initial installation instructions, then also as "non-free drivers" - so mostly video or music codecs are installed immediately. Everything altogether very problem-free. Programs not available in the Gnome Softwarecenter, which are not available as RPM or Flatpak, can be installed, for example the browser "Vivaldi" after download without any problems (not with Fedora Silverblue!). Wifi is also available immediately. So everything is fine? No.
It is absolutely incomprehensible to me, why Fedora sticks to the sluggish and incomprehensible installer "Anaconda" in unchanged form for years. It drives not only every beginner, but also experienced Linux-hoppers to despair or even to give up the installation attempt. Does it have to be? It is not innovative or even user-friendly. Please change it. So that the system can fly more easily.
That's why there are only 8 points although I would have preferred 1o.
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Version: 36
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-07-22
Votes: 2
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Fedora is one of the best linux distros there is. Why? It just works! Unlike other distros, inital configuration is short, sweet and simply, only a couple of things (like flatpack) need to be activated manually (a simple command line) to fully enjoy your new setup. No troubles, always updated and minimal manteinance makes this my go-to distro for work and personal stuff. Congrats to the team for making such a good system. It also has several spins, for those who prefer something other than gnome.
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Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-07-21
Votes: 2
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Everything just works: isn't that just what we want. We don't have time nowadays to mess around. I'm amazed by this distro! I've just realized that I've missed being amazed. The dev team is seriously working hard to bring a solid bleeding edge system. May they keep up the good work. It would be nice though if the Qtile window manager was in the official repos. Nevertheless I found a way to install it following the Qtile documentation. Bravo from the bottom of my heart! Windows is officially in serious troubles lol
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Version: 36
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-07-20
Votes: 0
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Leading edge, stable and up to date. No nonsense distro. Perfect for development or daily drive.
KDE spin is great. Solid as a rock.
Easy enough to get all the software I needed installed and functional.
I understand SELinux is probably the way Linux is going, but it can have a steep learning curve. Worth doing a bit of reading about it. It just works with most installed software, but can give some cryptic error messages when you start using non-standard folders or ports for packages.
Give it a go, you won't be disappointed.
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Version: 36
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-07-20
Votes: 0
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Polished and smooth; Fedora 36 is one of the best distributions I have ever used and the one that is my main daily driver. If you want to learn the inner workings of GNU Linux then spin up a Boxes/VB of ArcoLinux which is Arch based and easy to install -- Erik has done a superb job. A lot of what you learn over there may be applied to Linux in general. For Debian based distributions I prefer either LinuxMint or PopOS although LinuxMint always feels outdated but very stable. However, after using these four over the years I have settled on Fedora Workstation; for me, it 'fits'. It's all GNU Linux at the core... but my heart goes out to Fedora. Great work guys! And THANK YOU!
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Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-07-12
Votes: 10
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Fedora 36 KDE Spin
Been using Fedora for about six months or so starting with Fedora 35 GNOME.
Got tired of the never ending nonsense of Canonical Ubuntu and all the downstream Ubuntu based distributions.
Got tired of the never ending nonsense of GNOME and how it effects so many distributions that use it.
Debian is solid and fast there's no denying that. But it never feels fresh.
Fedora KDE Spin is excellent!
It feels very professional and up to date. It's not perfect but no distribution is. Older peripherals such as DVD burner/writers will require research to get up and going. But all in all, I really can't complain.
There are some manual repositories to add if you so choose... Free RPM, Non-free RPM and Flathub depending on your needs. As well as media codecs.
Once setup, it's great even for a novice Linux user. Set it and forget it if you will. Automatic updates can be enabled for beginners and works very very well. So all they have to do is boot and use.
The package management of Fedora in general is clean and does a great job of taking care of itself.
They really did an awesome job with this. Gone now are the days Ubuntu and GNOME for me.
All I want to do is use my system in peace. And Fedora KDE spin gives me that.
Thank you!
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Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-07-10
Votes: 7
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I went from linux mint to fedora 35 and was impressed with fedoras performance and ease of use. When fedora 36 came out I tried it and to my astonishment it performed better the fedora 35. I am glad linux mint screwed up because I found a much better OS in Fedora.It outperforms other linux OS's, is more stable, and easier to use. I have not had any discernible cons but have enjoyed many pros like stability, speed, good programs, and no bloat. The only thing I am wary of is its update program. I really do not like any of these programs because they invariably break the system. I would rather update the old fashioned way i.e., manually. I use the cinnamon version of fedora 36 and 35
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Version: 36
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-07-07
Votes: 20
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I switched to Fedora (Gnome) from a Debian/Ubuntu based distro because I wanted to have an up-to-date and stable system. I have been using it for 5 months, here are my thoughts about it:
Pros:
- It delivers up-to-date packages and software, so you don't have to wait for 6 months or 2 years for getting the latest packages.
- Touchpad gestures on Wayland are so smooth.
- Desktop environment feels faster and well integrated.
- Unlike other distros, Gnome installation was minimalistic. It doesn't come with unnecessary softwares or games.
- Fedora pushes new technologies, and they're integrating them so well into their desktop environment.
- I like the simplicity of Gnome. I feel like it's a work, study, and focus-oriented desktop environment.
- I haven't done any comparison yet, but my laptop works cooler and silent.
Cons:
- Gnome is a heavy desktop environment, it almost uses 3 gigs of ram while Brave opened. It lacks basic things like a login manager for customizing your login screen, a compact theme, or a relatively smaller UI for small laptop screens, and I believe, it has to come with the Gnome Tweaks app. Because after you enable dark theme on settings, you also have to select "Adwaita-dark" theme in the Gnome Tweaks app for making your system fully dark theme enabled. Otherwise, your system will be half-dark, half-light and that can hurt your eyes.
- You have to install Rpm Fusion for proprietary media codecs and software. Even though Fedora supports Flatpak, it doesn't come with Flathub, so you also need to install Flathub manually. Sadly, there aren't any introductions for these things after the installation. Because of these reasons, I can't say that it's a beginner-friendly distro. A small note: Because of some laws, Fedora can't ship with Rpm Fusion, you can check it on Rpm Fusion's FAQ section. Also, it's not so hard to install Rpm Fusion, codecs, and Flathub, all you need to do is copy-pasting a few codes to your terminal and there are plenty of videos on YouTube for that.
- Because Fedora is an up-to-date distro, if you're using Gnome extensions, updates might break the extensions you're using.
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Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-07-06
Votes: 1
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My review is for the Cinnamon community edition.
First off all the hype about Fedora 36 is deserved. It's beautiful, polished, bug-free, and professional looking in every respect. I installed it on an ancient Lenovo ThinkPad T530 with 1600x900 nvidia graphics. The installer is a bit awkward if you're used to Calamares. You have to click each icon on the installer and take some sort of action to clear the cryptic little error messages. Weird. However, I've installed Fedora a couple of times before so it wasn't too confusing this time. I also opted for encrypted install which works well and only adds a few extra seconds to boot time.
I was a bit concerned about the availability of RPM packages as I have some rather unique software requirements. My concerns were unfounded. Between the native dnf package manager, gnome-software, and FlatHub, I have found everything I need with only one side trip to GitHub to download an obscure graphics app I need for my work. Another issue was that the only Linux drivers available for my AiO printer/scanner are .deb packages. Fortunately the “alien” app converted these to RPM and installed them without any hangups. My WiFi printer prints & scans perfectly.
So far the experience has been enterprise-grade on my ancient ThinkPad. No bugs, no crashes, no strange error messages. It just works! Even “crashy” apps like kdenlive are resolutely stable. Really the only problem I encountered is that Pensela (drawing / painting app) wouldn’t launch. I enabled integrated graphics in BIOS and that fixed it. Pensela won’t play nice with my old nvidia card. This is a known bug with Pensela—not Fedora’s fault.
If you’re coming from the world of apt or pacman the dnf software store takes a little getting used too, but I think Fedora 36 is totally worth it. 10 out of 10 without hesitation.
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Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-07-02
Votes: 8
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I started with Red Hat Linux 9 a long time ago, and eventually adopted Fedora. I recently did a fresh install of Fedora 36 on an Asus Q406D notebook previously running Fedora 35 with no issues at all. The installation was smooth and all of my hardware seems to work as it should with no extra tinkering required.
Some of my observations:
- The battery life is not as good as it is with Windows. My notebook lives on my desk attached to its power supply so it does not matter that much to me.
- Boot time is relatively fast.
- I had to adjust my touchpad settings to my liking for sidebar scrolling, clicking, etc. Occasionally I find the touchpad recognizes my scrolling as a click and highlights by mistake... It could just be me, I don't know.
- The touchscreen works correctly. I have not tried using it as a table with an on-screen keyboard.
- The installer was easy to navigate and understand. Things have have improved so much over the years!
- I use the Workstation release with Gnome, and have tried the Cinnamon Spin. Both interfaces are polished, and provide a well appointed collection of included applications.
- Very little has changed since Fedora 35, most notably several small improvements have been made to themes, icons, colors, and fonts.
- Kernel Version has been upgraded since release to 5.18.7.
- My Epson ET-2760 Ecotank printer and scanner worked automatically when connected by wireless networking. I did not test it with a USB connection.
- I poke around the Fedora forums from time to time to see what issues people are dealing with and I am impressed with the size of the community and their eagerness to provide helpful solutions.
I am happy using Fedora 36, and thankful for the effort of all those involved in making it!
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Version: 36
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-06-28
Votes: 6
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Parei meu testes de distros no Fedora 33. De lá pra cá só atualizo, sem problemas. Sempre usei o ambiente KDE. Antes de testar o Fedora eu vivia mudando de distros. Então, como já falei acima, parei essa viagem no 33 KDE Plasma (Wayland). Sistema estável e relativamente atualizado. Minha CPU é intel de 4° geração (quase 10 anos) e apenas 8G de memória RAM. Não dou 10 pro SO porque ainda precisei configurar fontes e rpmfusion, todos são repositórios de terceiros. Isso poderia vir como uma opção pra habilitar, caso o usuário desejar. Por fim, somente com o Fedora o meu notebook trabalha suave e sem muito barulho na ventoinha da CPU.
I stopped my testing of distros in Fedora 33. Since then I just update, no problems. I have always used the KDE environment. Before testing Fedora I was constantly switching distros. So, as I said above, I stopped this trip at 33 KDE Plasma (Wayland). Stable and relatively up-to-date system. My CPU is 4th generation intel (almost 10 years old) and only 8G of RAM. I don't give the OS 10 because I still needed to configure fonts and rpmfusion, all are third-party repositories. This could come as an option to enable, if the user wishes. Finally, only with Fedora my notebook works smoothly and without much noise in the CPU fan.
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Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-06-19
Votes: 10
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Smoothly upgraded from F35 to F36. I have a plenty of Acer notebooks and all hardware were successfully recognized. I'm using Fedora since F34 and very satisfied with its stability. Altough there's space for some improvements, everything works fine. As a backend software developer I consider Fedora a good choice for a day to day use. A good intermediate point between rolling-release and LTS distros, offering updated packages but without the hassle of breaking something on a system update. Switched to Fedora from Arch two years ago and have no regrets. Although I consider Pacman better than DNF, now I have more productive time to spend on my main work instead of trying to fix something that was broken on a minor system package upgrade.
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Version: 35
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-06-18
Votes: 3
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Fedora 35 is a great OS. I used earlier versions of Fedora and used them consistently until I switched all of my machines over to Linuxmint as I was impressed with it. However, linuxmint kept getting more problematic, and the latest versions really suck. At that point I started looking for a replacement and the best distro by far is Fedora 33 -35 for my needs. Its quick and not quirky, and plenty of programs to choose from, plus it's a real pleasure to use. It also is a fast install. My main machine is an amd board with an amd 6 processor chip and 16gig mem. The other OS's all lacked in something or other, but Fedora has disappointed me yet
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Version: 36
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-06-13
Votes: 5
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Fedora Workstation Gnome 36 is a wonderfully stable system that is highly recommended for everyday use. Scanner worked immediately, the printer was also recognized, but had to be deleted, and then recognized as a new printer functional. One should follow the short initial installation instructions, then also as "non-free drivers" - so mostly video or music codecs are installed immediately. Everything altogether very problem-free. Programs not available in the Gnome Softwarecenter, which are not available as RPM or Flatpak, can be installed, for example the browser "Vivaldi" after download without any problems (not with Fedora Silverblue!). Wifi is also available immediately. So everything is fine? No.
It is absolutely incomprehensible to me, why Fedora sticks to the sluggish and incomprehensible installer "Anaconda" in unchanged form for years. It drives not only every beginner, but also experienced Linux-hoppers to despair or even to give up the installation attempt. Does it have to be? It is not innovative or even user-friendly. Please change it. So that the system can fly more easily.
That's why there are only 8 points although I would have preferred 1o.
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Version: 36
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-06-10
Votes: 8
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Fedora 36 KDE Spin
Started out with Fedora GNOME but kept getting weird random failure notices. So... decided to give the KDE spin a try.
I use to prefer GNOME over KDE but that has now changed.
I'm not a big customization buff and like things simple and direct. But since trying KDE (left at default settings), I'm very happy with it. It is attractive and handles very well. Performance and stability have been outstanding!
KDE seems to handle resources much better than GNOME. For me I still think there are too many options and at times things can feel overwhelming and cluttered. But that is getting better with time as I get more familiar with it.
Fedora to me feels much more together than Ubuntu and Arch based distributions. Especially in the way of package management. Kernels, the desktop environment itself and software are update to date or very recent.
My one disappointment is still the issues with hybrid Intel/nVidia GPU drivers. Yes, it can be done... but it is not simple or beginner friendly. I suspect someday it will get there.
Overall, I'm very happy and can't see myself using anything else for a daily driver.
Thanks!
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Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-06-08
Votes: 14
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Pros: -
* Always easy to set-up.
* Works well on any Dell machine and others that I have installed it on.
* If you take the time to read about the installer, you'll learn it is extremely flexible and lets you do just want you want.
* I am finding this version nice and snappy even with animations turned on.
Con: -
* Beginners may struggle with the installer, it is not as simple as some others that are out there.
* You need a bit of knowledge to get things just the way you want.
The forums are supportive and Fedora Documentation is good, a quick web search will resolve most of the normal concerns. For unique hardware problems just ask on the forum and someone will help you.
Linux is all about personal choice and learning something new, to have something you built, distros are there for you to see what can be achieved!
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Version: 36
Rating: 4
Date: 2022-06-07
Votes: 2
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Pros:
- Up to date software and great support for flathub
- Pure Gnome experience
- Online documentation not as good as Debians but was able to most things I needed.
Cons:
- Dreadful GUI installing experience
- Boot stuck at logo (before login) on my machine with a GTX 1080ti, right after clean install, no error visible anywhere, recovery mode not booting either. Had to switch to the Intel iGPU to get it to boot.
- No minimal CLI recovery mode booting present in the boot loader
- Not the most supported distro among software devs (ie. Timeshift requires changes to btrfs volumes)
- Login screen doesn't duplicate monitors leading to gray static screen (the login form presented on the 2nd monitor which was turned off).
- Installing the NVidia drivers from the official repository broke Electron apps (Slack)
- No GUI package manager for dnf
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Version: 36
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-06-06
Votes: 4
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Fast boot, stable as a rock, fast on almost everything.
Great MATE desktop. (Gnome is not so good, probably never will...).
The only serious criticism I have towards this distro is the ANACONDA installer, which work well (when you know it) but is very confusing to use, especially with BTRFS file system, the best now in my view, so it should probably be re-written from scratch, or perhaps use Yast from OpenSuse, etc...
The distro-upgrade now work well, but this time I elected a re-install from scratch (to clean up many unused packages that I installed along the months) , ouch, this is a long process because my "post-install" list is now quite long, but this is not specific to this distro : other distros have the same issue.
But consequently more options for software, and even plugins for browsers to install faster would be great.
Still my favorite, and one of the very best Linux distros today, where almost everything works well, and fast too
A.G
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Version: 36
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-06-03
Votes: 1
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I've been looking for a new distro and its been a couple of days of disappointments. I chose Fedora after hearing how great it was but that's not been my overall experience.
The installer can only be described as frustrating and confusing in equal measure. Oddly counter intuitive choices and a strange approach to choosing a drive. After three or so tries I finally managed to get it to choose the correct SSD and it installed quite quickly.
Having installed it however it started up and then promptly failed to boot into the OS. What more can I say. Moving on......
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Version: 36
Rating: 5
Date: 2022-05-31
Votes: 0
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I love Fedora - I really do. Except for one issue it runs flawlessly and has a crispness and visual clarity about it that I find very appealing. It has an excellent range of up to date software and is the best when installing my wireless printer setup.
However Fedora won't play ball on a multi booting setup. It doesn't show its own grub menu by default and if you can set it up, won't boot other other standard distros. Similarly although grub on the other distros find Fedora on a probe, for some reason they won't create menu entries to boot Fedora. For me this is very disappointing.
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Version: rawhide
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-05-29
Votes: 26
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The immutable Fedora Kinoite variant makes it possible to use the rawhide (rolling release) channel without any risk. This is pretty awesome because you get the latest stuff in the form of a working image. I don't know any other distro where something like this is possible. In addition you can easily switch to Silverblue as long as you don't mess around with overlay installations.
The downside is that you cannot install software via package manager anymore. Instead you must use flatpacks, overlay installations or a toolbox container. But if you can live with that, you should give that distro a try.
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Version: 36
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-05-28
Votes: 6
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I use the KDE spin of Fedora.
It looks as though a lot of the problems reported are with the standard GNOME version as I am not seeing them with the KDE spin. However, I have come across other issues, although none are showstoppers.
+ Clean install without "rubbish", although there is one exception (see later)
+ Vanilla themes
+ Fast
+ A lot of features which often don't work properly do here; for example, the emoji selector offers coloured emojis
+ Similarly, ibus is on by default and works
+ Offers Discover for installing applications as well as dnfdragora, which is better than in the past but still clunky
+ With a 4K screen, everything is correctly sized (no tiny controls)
- The installer is still anaconda, which works but has its quirks (such as oceans of white space)
- Uses Wayland, which has a number of minor glitches
- A small subset of applications looks fuzzy (Thunderbird actually has a separate "Thunderbird with Wayland" launcher to fix this)
- Sucks up a lot of memory - I can get to 3GB+ with only Firefox, Dolphin and a couple of applications running
- Has the Kontact/KMail monster installed in all its ... glory
- By default reboots on every update, although this can be switched off (System Settings > Offline Settings > untick Use Offline Updates)
I give 8. I have a two-year-old desktop machine which may well hide the excessive memory usage, but the issues I have found are annoying rather than anything else and are of the kind that will be in any OS.
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Version: 36
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-05-27
Votes: 2
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This review is about Fedora 36 Workstation.
Fedora was a great Linux for daily use and it was the first Linux OS which convinced me to replace the Windows OS completely.
i was dual booting Fedora core 11 with Windows and when Fedora 15 was released i completely dropped Windows OS from my system.
until the last few releases, Gnome has evolved constantly and it got more snapper with each release.
but not sure if its the problem with Fedora System or gnome, few things break frequently and unable to diagnose what had caused the issue. often a restart will resolve.
i believe the quality of usability has decreased overtime something is not working hand in hand on top of bleeding edge Apps.
i feel it became more of a developer/Coder friendly and i do not recommend it for a home user.
PROS :
Gnome 42 - amazing experience. very polished and new features with every release.
Nautilus File Manager.
DNF package manager and delta RPM's.
OUT of the box flatpak support.
Screenshot tool.
extraordinary support for Wayland.
Coder friendly.
CONS :
Heavy CPU and RAM Usage when idle. about 1.1 GB RAM after base install.
Power Usage is high.
Driver issues were very frequent, Camera will display a colored lines on screen but can still take pics.
WiFi often does not works,broken DNS resolution.
Software center interface is good but cannot find apps most of the time, need to do it command line way.
Gnome Music,Videos shipped by default does not work and throws error regarding missing codecs, also having lag issue.
many post install tasks need to be done to make the system usable for Average Home user.
Gnome Tweaks provides very less customization options.
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Version: 36
Rating: 7
Date: 2022-05-26
Votes: 1
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A distro that is talked a lot about and how good it is. Sadly I didn't had a good experience with Fedora. Everything was slow, sluggish, not responsive and just overall not great.
The installer as many say still sucks and well it is confusing, but does its job.
It uses vanilla GNOME which I find not that bad as it's a pretty flexible desktop enviroment whith extensions.
Installing NVIDIA drivers was not the worst thing. It had the newest version and it was not a headache to search it. Just typing sudo dnf install nvidia-driver -y was not a big deal.
It uses its own flatpak repository. That's nice that they use flatpak instead of snap.
So yeah it's a pretty good distro if it works and does not load.
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Version: 36
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-05-25
Votes: 0
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Anaconda installer still sucks, but once installed on my Lenovo ideapad3 everything seems to work as it should. Having used xfce and kde for many years I decided to try the Gnome experience. After using for a few days I am beginning to see what the appeal is to Gnome users. All good so far. Wireless printers were there and everything just worked the way it was supposed to. Still dont like the gnome software center though and having to set up the RPM Fusion repositories and Flathub was just one more step to keeping this distro from becoming more mainstream and user friendly. Surely there must be a better way. Perhaps a welcome screen on first boot to give the option to turn them on. Other distros do it.
BTW I installed the Fedora36 KDE spin when it was in beta and it was so buggy I switched back to MXlinux to wait for the official workstation release.
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Version: 36
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-05-19
Votes: 4
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Long time Linux user here, primarily either Mint or Lubuntu/Xubuntu for the last decade on all my machines.
Never really got into Fedora, only because the Debian based distros always "just worked" for my needs.
I bought a toy to fiddle with, an ASUS C200M Chromebook. 30$ on ebay all day long. Weak specs even for a Chromebook; 2GB ram, 16GB SSD, Baytrail processor.
I only bought it to play with. Almost no "out of the box" Linux install would operate the C200M properly. Usually either the audio wouldn't work, or would but at best at half speed (Youtube + VLC videos would always play at about half speed).
Fedora 36 XFCE spin, out of the box, works without issue.
Two thumbs up :)
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Version: 36
Rating: 2
Date: 2022-05-19
Votes: 2
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I can not believe how slow, clunky and buggy this distro is! .................................................... WHY are people talking praise of this distro?
The graphical software centre refuses to work, Its slow to boot, and extremely slow to update via terminal!
Surely most people are looking for a distro that simply WORKS...........and does the jobs that you need done in an efficient and quick way! ............................................
Why would anyone use this over Mint or MX or Lite?
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Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-05-17
Votes: 19
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I don't care what anyone says, no distro currently looks as professional and polished as Fedora 36 - not even Windows 10. From the gorgeous fonts to the new logo, this distro screams CLASS. It's also incredibly stable for a rolling-release and buttery smooth. Fedora team are killing it with this release, they literally went through every design detail with a tooth comb. XFCE, MATE and GNOME look way more professional with Fedora. Other distros just lazily release these window managers with little to no regard for how they look, you get wonky icons or taskbar font and icons not aligning correctly or silly DPI....not so with Fedora; THEY CARE!
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Version: 36
Rating: 3
Date: 2022-05-16
Votes: 2
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My Fedora experience;
Installed 35. I'll just go ahead and ignore these 2000+ packages I don't need and the fact that I'm using triple RAM that I'm used to on boot and all these journalctl errors and how it creates an extra boot partition convoluting my UEFI and how it tries to mount my Windows partition every time I boot despite it being unplugged when I installed it, if everyone says it's that good it must just be me, right? I'll stick around!
Day 1, immediately post-installation; How am I already flooded with .rpmnew files? Isn't this the reason you go with a preconfigured distro to not have to deal with these? I have not once in my life had to do this on Arch. I learned meld and accepted it, fine. Everyone says it's great, don't give up yet. Also checked journalctl and decided to nix that from my maintenance routine, because seeing all that red and in the hundreds really scares me. So yeah, just don't check journalctl I guess...?
Day 2, update 1; Fedora 36 is released and it asks me to upgrade. I disable my third party repos and then do the upgrade. When it's done, the computer doesn't shut down when it goes to reboot, forcing me to hard reboot it like 5 minutes into it hanging. When I turned it back on, it surprisingly booted successfully, but all of my icons were default Wayland W icons. Pipewire no longer worked. OBS Studio produces an error when I try to record my games. Proton games via Steam no longer launch. Terminal windows would open not using my user account but sudo. Permissions errors up the wazoo.
I'm leaving Fedora and never coming back again, I genuinely believe it to be a bad Linux distribution.
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Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-05-15
Votes: 6
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I just updated my 3rd generation i5 3317u (2012 vintage) laptop from Fedora 35 to Fedora 36. I use the Cinnamon Desktop spin. It is fantastic. I give it about a 9.7 and am rounding it up to 10. I like Mint Linux Cinnamon almost as much but Mint is based on Ubuntu and version upgrades of Ubuntu take forever and are a major chore. Fedora version upgrades are very quick and painless. To me, Fedora Cinnamon Desktop spin is the best Linux out there. My only complaint is that they will not allow installing to a partition without formatting and for those of us who know what we are doing, that is a major time saver when swapping distros. They need to fix that. If the did, I would give it a perfect 10.
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Latest Reviews
Project: Fedora
Version: 38
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-05-20
Votes: 5
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This is my main distribution after I started distrohopping. A fine and polished distribution with a minimal installation out of the box while also providing many QoL features that could be considered minor for the average user, but for my Optimus laptop, the fact that most applications that require my NVIDIA card use that by default, make this distribution my favorite.
In version 38, unfiltered flathub was added when selecting third-party repositories on first-boot, which is another plus from me.
What I don't find appealing is the installation process. From a new user perspective, it is a little difficult to understand everything. This is where Ubuntu is better in my opinion. Ubuntu's installation process in the recent 23.04 is very appealing, has a nice and polished UI and an easy way to install the system: just clicking next a bunch of times. For the new user this is optimal for the Operating System experience.
Besides the installation process, another thing they don't do that Ubuntu does is having the ability to enable Multimedia codecs in the installer. Ubuntu does that and still says that they are third-party and subject to licenses
Even with these very small complaints, this is my favorite distribution by far and recommend it to everyone willing to put their time into either learning Linux, or using it as a personal desktop Operating System
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Project: Fedora
Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-05-19
Votes: 4
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I used Uubuntu since 19.04 until 23.04 versions. When I bought new SSD, I started to install 23.04 from scratch over the existing Btrfs partition. And there was the problems with Ubuntu installers:
1. New installer doesn't create subvolumes for home and root partitions.
2. Legacy installer is buggy and after installation Ubuntu 23.04 doesn't boot and fall into initramfs.
I decided to try Fedora 38 installed it without any issues and fall in love with it. At first look Fedora is more minimalistic and better polished. Vanilla GNOME w/o Dash looks great and provide different user experienece than Ubuntu's GNOME with Dash.
My Ubuntu 23.04 rating is 8/10 and Fedora 38 - 10/10.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 38
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-05-17
Votes: 8
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If there was a button during setup to enable the various extra codecs/VA acceleration, it would've been the best Linux experience. Right now, you need to manually install rpmfusion to have a first-class desktop experience, as compared to Windows and macOS.
Unfiltered Flathub installed by default is a great choice; the distro also continues to provide near-latest versions of packages and new features, while remaining stable.
I'm looking forward to when the Silverblue version starts getting primetime attention - I honestly believe Fedora is the future of Linux.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-05-10
Votes: 9
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This is a desktop user review.
I've distrohopped these last couple of years like I had nothing else to do.
All day, almost every day these last few months.
I've tried most of the top 20 distros on Distrowatch (thank you Distrowatch)
If you're looking for stability, get Debian stable. Old software, tested ad infinitum. Won't break.
If you want to run on really old hardware, MX Linux might be your go to. It's the top rank solely because of this.
*If*, although, you're looking for a balance of the latest and greatest with a solid foundation, Fedora is the distro of choice. Fedora 38 has hit that sweet spot in release cycles that even for Fedora is an achievement.
The default desktop is Gnome 44, dubbed Kuala Lumpur. Gnome right now is the Desktop Environment (DE) that has the most cash investment in its development. More than KDE. It's starting to show. I'm not the biggest fan of super tweaking the DE from a bunch of different sources, but when you get the hang of it, you can get a desktop that is more aesthetic than Windows 11.
Give it a go if you want something stable and new. Fedora's not going anywhere. It's backed by Redhat Enterprise Linux (REL) a big company, and Fedora developpers, as of today, are running a tight ship.
Kudos Fedora on Fedora 38!
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 4
Date: 2023-05-10
Votes: 2
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It is a fine distro, but it is far from been a Distro for linux nubies. The installer is really messy, specially if you have more than two partitions and you need to use the custom partition configuration, it is probably the worst among all other most used distros like Mint, Ubuntu, SuSe, Rose, Open Mandriva.
Pros: Stability, huge commnunity, you can get easy help
Cons: not straight forward support for Nvidia cards (it does not have something similar to Ubuntu or Mint to install the Nvidia Drivers --- Driver Manager---
I promised myself not to install it again until there is a decent Installer available for the Distro. Anaconda is really ridiculous. I think Anaconda is just fine for installing Servers, usually you don´t have to deal with multipartitions, you probably create volumes, etc.
Long time user of most of major Distros: SuSe, PCLinuxOs, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Rosa Linux, Mageia, etc
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Project: Fedora
Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-05-07
Votes: 5
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Fedora is a distro that holds up over time, over months and years.
I use Fedora 38 and Fedora Silverblue. This last distro is a great success, if you take the time to understand it and really look into it (toolbox)
For :
- Great stability
- In case of problem, big reactivity for updates
- Latest versions of software
- Team vision, lots of communication, fairly strong transparency (example: discussions on the 2028 agenda)
- Seriousness of the team: thus version 37 had been postponed for a security / stability problem
Cons:
- Obligation to use RPM fusion for certain codecs (simple, explained in videos or the wiki)
- No LTS version for fedora server, it's incomprehensible.
I put a 10 because it turns out to be powerful, efficient over time. 10 for this long-term stability, security, novelties and quality of Fedora Silverblue.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 38
Rating: 7
Date: 2023-05-05
Votes: 0
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The OS itself seems a little slow, but tight and usable, but continuing a rather nasty habit in recent Fedora releases, the backgrounds and graphics in the interface leave a helluvalot to be desired. The screen art (similar to F37) looks like a random screen grab from a bad manga cartoon, and the flat-style icons and interface graphics make it look like an OS interface built by Playskool with icons supplied by Fisher Price.
Do yourself a favor and grab the MATE version, and then fetch Enlightenment after the install.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 38
Rating: 6
Date: 2023-05-04
Votes: 3
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I have been a long-time user of Fedora Linux and have recently encountered performance issues with Fedora 38, as it appears to be significantly slower and less responsive when compared to its predecessors. Despite numerous attempts to reinstall the software on various machines, the performance remained unsatisfactory. In my humble opinion, Fedora 37 performs much better. It seems that Fedora 38 lacks optimization, and exhibits qualities of a beta or alpha product. Additionally, I have also encountered issues with its boot process as the panels or top bar do not load correctly, rendering the software unusable. This is unfortunate and disappointing.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 38
Rating: 2
Date: 2023-05-04
Votes: 3
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Despite Fedora's potential advantages, my assessment revealed several notable concerns..
Performance and Package Management:
Fedora's DNF package manager, while operational, faces difficulties in matching the speed and effectiveness of its counterparts.
Stability and Usability:
My Fedora experience was negatively impacted by system instability, which significantly influenced my overall perception. Moreover, Fedora's Gnome desktop environment is resource-demanding and missing crucial features.
Beginner Friendliness:
The limited guidance Fedora offers for installing codecs, basic utility softwares etc results in a challenging learning curve for new users. The possibility of updates disrupting Gnome extensions is an additional source of problem.
Compatibility and Support:
Fedora encounters compatibility issues such as boot complications with specific graphics cards. Furthermore, software developers might not offer extensive support for this distribution. Problems with driver compatibility, WiFi connectivity, and faulty DNS resolution exacerbate the user experience.
Software Center and Pre-installed Applications:
While Fedora's software center boasts an appealing interface, it falls short in search functionality, compelling users to rely on command-line approaches. Pre-installed apps suffer from missing codec problems and lag, necessitating extra post-install tasks to ensure the system is suitable.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 38
Rating: 3
Date: 2023-04-30
Votes: 0
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The installer is too simplistic and doesn’t offer enough options.
Only vanilla GNOME is offered.
Fedora is noticeably slower and more power hungry than other distros, both on bare metal and in a VM.
Despite it’s reputation as a distro for developers, important development tools are missing in the default install.
Fedora is also the mother distribution of the controversial systemd.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-04-22
Votes: 20
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Fedora remains the benchmark for Linux. The projects that make it up are the most advanced and risky, but it still manages to be a stable distribution. Ideal for those who want to venture into the future of Linux.
The immutable systems offered by the distribution (Silverblue, with Gnome; Kinoite, with Plasma; Sericea, with Sway), are among the most advanced projects of their kind.
PROS:
1. Stability between versions.
2. Updated software.
3. New technologies.
4. Support of a great company.
CONS:
1. Medium difficulty.
2. Need to add proprietary drivers and codecs.
3. Limited support time.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-04-21
Votes: 16
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All in all, a very pleasant experience so far. I have always used Ubuntu before, but since Canonical does not support Flatpak, I have decided to use Fedora. Despite the fairly recent software, Fedora is very stable. What I like most is the integration of Flathub out-of-the-box. Which means I don't need most of the other sources, like Chrome or Steam repositories. You can get all that from Flathub and it works without any problems.
Gnome 44 is a great desktop environment and has been implemented very well. The dark mode is also great and you can easily enable dark mode for legacy applications thanks to Gnome tweaks. This is especially useful for some flatpaks. Very simple. The fonts are also very pleasant.
What I do not like is the default file system BTRFS. The default partinioning is also incompatible with timeshift. Snapshots cannot be created with it. You have to specify @ and @home in the installer first, only then a snapshot with Timeshift works without problems. This could be improved. Apart from that, there is not much more to say.
All in all, the first impression is great and a serious alternative to Ubuntu.
Thanks a lot.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-04-20
Votes: 2
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I have installed Fedora 38 Budgie Spin on a HP All In One Desktop 2-3GHZ AMD CPUs, Raedon GPU, 1 TB hard drive, and 4 GB of RAM. The Fedora 38 Budgie install in UEFI and found all of the hardware and firmware listed. I only had to enable the RPM Fusion repos and install multimedia codecs for sound and video. I was using this desktop as a daily driver with Fedora 37 Comp Mate Spin for the last three months. No problems encountered at all. It fact, is was a very fast and stable experience.
I hope to have the same success with Fedora 38 Budgie Spin. I am a huge fan of the Budgie desktop. So far, I have installed the following software from the Fedora Software Center: Gnome Chess, IDLE3, TOR Browser, and VLC. VScodium was installed via vscodium.com and GIT. As you can see, I am using this desktop as a daily driver. I prefer Fedora because of its reputation, documentation, and US support. I hope to see more reviews on the recently added Fedora 38 Budgie Spin.
Thank you DistroWatch and Fedora !!
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Project: Fedora
Version: 38
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-04-19
Votes: 1
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I tried the Mate spin and the default Workstation versions. Both versions reported an "Oops, something went wrong" at regular intervals. And in both versions my Soundblaster soundcard was recognized, but it didn work. (Where in other distros like Debian, OpenSuse and Debian I had no problems
And though the Mate spin should be faster than the Gnome version it was quite sluggish compared to the latter. In fact compared to any other version of Mate I used in other distros.
In short, I fired up Debian, listened to some relaxing music and wiped Fedora from the disk.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-04-16
Votes: 5
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An overall pretty good distribution if you opt for the GNOME desktop. Haven't personally used any of the spins such as the immutable version, however the standard distribution is amazing. The repositories are really up to date and stable at the same time, the default environment is lean and uses modern technologies such as Wayland and Pipewire. The two reasons I can't give it a 10/10 even though it's my daily driver is:
- The installer is absolutely awful as of 37. Apparently this will be changed in the next update
- No Flathub by default, or no complete Flathub at all. Although this is minimized by the fact they mantain their own flatpak repositories.
Overall I recommend the distribution, but you should be aware that you will need to tinker with it a bit to get a good experience, this is not the best distribution "out-of-the-box" but is instead a really good base for your Linux desktop.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-04-15
Votes: 1
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Fedora is one of the best distros in my opinion, but has a couple of issues holding it back although it definitely is heading in the right direction. Before I get into the issues, Fedora and some other distros are in a sweet spot of having corporate funding behind it, yet having a very good philosophy around free software yet it is less dogmatic than FSF endorsed distros. Everything works very well and the packages are also very up to date, especially compared to Debian based distros.
The main issues with it is that DNF feels a little slow and the desktop revolves around GTK DEs, the latter is a matter of personal taste but the former may be a deal breaker for some. However, I have heard that Fedora 38 makes DNF speedier, along with a lot of other anticipated updates. If you aren't a Fedora user already I would wait until 38 comes out before switching
All this being said, it is best for relatively newer computers, it needs nothing cutting edge but even XFCE uses ~800mb of ram. You may get away with LXQt and swap, but Qt feels like a second class citizen on Fedora.
I realize this sounds like a negative review, but I really think it is one of the best distros available, everything works (especially if you are only looking to use Free software) especially with 38 on the horizon.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-03-19
Votes: 15
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My distro died so I moved to Fedora, installed Budgie, and haven't looked back.
I am writing after about 5 weeks of daily driving="where have you been all my life"?
I've tried a lot of Budgies and this is the best experience to me.
I use Fedora 37 for home desktop use which is both professional and personal.
PROS:
*incredibly easy to use
*dnf is an easy, sensible package manager with simple syntax
*for CLI peeps like me, rhel concepts/terminology are easier than deb/other
*graphics/menus/windows render beautifully and for linux distros this is not achieved by most imho
*FUNCTIONING package selection better than most
*Pushes Flatpaks in software center (CONS) but makes it incredibly easy to find and install the actual RPM (PROS).
*no program has crashed
*Fedora itself has not crashed and I am a wrecking ball
*if you do your reading/research then installer program becomes friendly. if you go about it blindly then leave rating 1 reviews after failure then it's not valid criticism. see next point
*this PRO is a CON as well: very few distros have so much literature to make life easy and very few distros have so much literature to make life easy that is outdated
*this is a distro a new user and seasoned user can both walk right into.
*big plus for the software center is telling the user right up front what is tested/open source, and what it proprietary. not everyone does this clearly
*unpretentious on the whole. modern, sleek, but no disco ball and glitter
*easy on the eyes
*you get work done on it and it gets out of your way
*extremely customizable ***(depends on flavour I suppose)
*printer and scanner support not instant (where is it instant?) but fastly do-able
*have never seen a distro where info on how to find/install a package/fix something/change something so easy and quick to find. this makes hiccups not hiccups
CONS:
*too many repos. confusing. there are too many 'test' and 'official' and 'unofficial-but-we-mostly-vouch-for-them-kind-of.' I understand variety and pleasing people and disclaimers and liability, but realistically there should be one or two. I have like 7.
*DNF (cli) and GUI software center are not married, do not sync, and do not think alike or even list the same packages. It's a "quirk" I can live with since I prefer CLI for all manners of install except the reading.
*gui software center sluggish to load if you like reading and reviews. turn the back arrow and it puts you back at the top of the small-windowed app list--not the middle where you left off. If you are reading reviews/blurbs about an app (the list of password managers, for instance, in sequence than this is torture.
*they need a 'scrub and kibosh' internet team to purge old useless official information as the distro evolves. transparency is a beautiful thing but the how-to's of Fedora online are perilous and voluminous
I don't enjoy hopping but sometimes you have to see what's out there for a variety of reasons. I am not deducting a single digit in my rating for the CON stuff. Fedora con stuff is small potatoes compared to many of its peers.
This is a solid experience
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-03-16
Votes: 3
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I have been looking for a distro for normal pc + gaming use for several times.
The Arch-derived distros that I've tried with proprietary GPU drivers (Endeavor OS, Manjaro) are "heavy" in normal use and for gaming...
I certainly have a rather old PC config but I still have an AMD processor at 3.1 ghz + 6 ghz of ram + an NVIDIA GPU at 2 ghz.
Fedora "Workstation" is the only distro that is ultra-light with my PC config, it starts up in less than 30 s, remains fluid in operation and some fairly demanding games that work poorly under WIN** start quite well in low settings with Fedora.
I also forgot my printer/scanner model installs itself ... even if the software library is less extensive than other Linux distros there is the essential so I recommend Fedora Gnome.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-03-12
Votes: 3
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I have been trying to install the Fedora Comp Neuro Lab distro. I am now giving up, it is too frustrating and I can't waste any more time on it.
1. The comp neuro iso does not contain the neuro apps claimed by the website.
2. My Fedora login works for the forums, but will not work for the parts of the website that I need to use to report the problem.
3. Some very helpful people on the forum did acknowledge that the wrong iso was being downloaded. However trying to report the problem to Fedora was a total waste of time.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 2
Date: 2023-03-11
Votes: 0
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Fedora 37 performs poorly in every aspect. It frequently crashes and when updated, strange error messages such as " /sbin/sysctl: No such file or directory" often appear. It is unfortunate that Fedora has become increasingly complicated to use and its overall performance, including basic internet use and Bluetooth settings, is considerably worse than other Linux distributions. Based on its current situation, I cannot recommend Fedora to anyone. It is a waste of time and installing this distribution will only lead to regret and countless hours spent on the Fedora forums trying to resolve issues. Unless you enjoy the challenge of searching for a needle in a haystack, it is best to avoid Fedora 37 and choose a different distribution with a more supportive user community and more user-friendly features. Currently, Fedora seems more suitable for a vintage operating systems museum rather than a functional operating system for daily use.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 2
Date: 2023-03-10
Votes: 6
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Fedora 37 performs poorly in every aspect. It frequently crashes and when updated, strange error messages such as " /sbin/sysctl: No such file or directory" often appear. It is unfortunate that Fedora has become increasingly complicated to use and its overall performance, including basic internet use and Bluetooth settings, is considerably worse than other Linux distributions. Based on its current situation, I cannot recommend Fedora to anyone. It is a waste of time and installing this distribution will only lead to regret and countless hours spent on the Fedora forums trying to resolve issues. Unless you enjoy the challenge of searching for a needle in a haystack, it is best to avoid Fedora 37 and choose a different distribution with a more supportive user community and more user-friendly features. Currently, Fedora seems more suitable for a vintage operating systems museum rather than a functional operating system for daily use.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-03-08
Votes: 0
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The "Gnome" version of Fedora bugs "Steam" at times but for gaming tested on an old pc over 11 years old, some games natively or with Proton which bugged with the usual Manjaro, MX... or W distros $$ won't work perfectly but better with Fedora...for gaming it's one of the best distros for me right now.
Some well-known software is missing from the Fedora software library which is present in the usual Linux distros...
For daily use, the "Gnome" workbench may confuse some users and seem impractical, but Fedora will remain perfectly fine for regular use without gaming.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-02-27
Votes: 9
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After many years of distro hopping, I finally decided to stick with Fedora.
I have done that since one year now and I can't be more happy.
Currently I am using Fedora 37 and everything works out of the box on all my systems.
I even use Fedora in the cloud, now that CentOS is no longer supported.
Pros:
- stability
- availability of newer kernel (this means newer drivers for relatively new hardware)
- convenient application versions
- GNOME as developers intended (I love GNOME's simplicity and power)
Cons:
- dnf is a little bit too slow compared to apt and even zypper
Fedora is the foundation of RHEL, which is the "king" of enterprise Linux. This means that you will have all the tools you need for efficient management and work.
Did I say that everything just work? It does! No errors, no glitches, no freezes, nothing bad. I can get my work done without hassles. This is also the merit of GNOME, which is simple and powerful.
Fedora should get more love, as it is a very stable and leading edge distro.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-02-23
Votes: 0
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I use Fedora 37 Mate, with additional applications like Nautilus, Musescore, Leaf, Gtick, PDf mod, pdf arranger, Audacity, VLC, Lingot, Okular, Kolour Paint, Gparted Softaware center Cairo Dock, Winff, guvciew sound recorder, and many more others. I don't use Gnome because it has incompatibilities with Mate.
I started with old Mandriva, used Ubuntu 7, 8, 9, 10; Zorin 10, 12, 15. I also use Zorin 16.
But since version 22 or 23 of Fedora I always have Fedora Mate on my PC and notebook.
Too bad Fedora doesn't run very well on my ASUS Tux with Ryzen 7 4800H and with Radeon and Nvidia 1650.
Very slow to open and I had to replace Fedora 37 with Mageia 9 beta Mate, Plasma, Gnome. All these Mageia and Zorin environments work best on Asus. Not always the best performer, but as my main pc is now an HP600 mini with i5 6500T, Fedora 37 runs very well. In both my pcs I usually have two systems that I think complement each other.
I thank everyone who contributes to this incredible development, I feel much more comfortable than on Windows whether it's 7, 10 or 11.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-02-17
Votes: 3
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I have tried many distributions in the last few years and have actually always come back to Fedora, or switched back to Windows (mostly because of minor problems). Last time I tried Fedora Silverblue and everything runs pretty perfect. You can tinker and try out smaller problems and you can be sure that you can't break anything because of the Silverblue technology. If I want I can try a new Beta release and then roll back to the stable version a few days later. Thumbs up to the Fedora developers! Keep it up!
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-01-27
Votes: 3
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I deleted the "Gnome" version of "Fedora" and I installed "Cinnamon" instead thanks to a tutorial found on the net I have much less bugs (only one bug of the "Menu" bar solved by disabling an option in "Settings")
For the moment of all the distributions that I have tried based on "Debian" or "Arch" I have found that:
-My printer which is in Bluetooth configured and installed itself even the scanner works.
-My audio headset also in Bluetooth after being paired works better than on other distributions even if there too it disconnects sometimes but much more rarely.
-Some games that work a little badly under Win$$ and even more badly on the usual Linux distros...will work better even if it's not perfect under "Fedora".
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-24
Votes: 11
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Okay, let me break it down for you guys...
After 20 years of using Linux, there are only FOUR Linux distros worth using: Slackware, Debian, Mint and Fedora. These are the ONLY distros that actually get out of your way and resemble an OS made by a professional organisation. Fedora, in particular, has a gorgeous, understated elegance; the only distro that's default install looks better than Windows and Apple. Other distros try to be different but just add unnecessary clutter and bling that is beyond obnoxious or try to be "linuxy" by making it an absolute to install and run.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-14
Votes: 7
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What an absolute amazing distro! Has the great balance of being stable for performance but still having up to date with it's "semi-rolling release" structure. Security is well known as well with SELinux implemented by default and common firewall applications installed with frequent updates from a greatly funded and well known organization being Fedora Project/Red Hat, following with great documentation about further hardening security and basic pracitices with also recent vulnerabilities/issues being posted. Further speaking of documentation, I'd say it's decent and large enough and getting even more extensive with it expanding rapidly since it's recent rise in popularity the past couple of years. So finding support without having to risk asking a question on a platform to get b****ed at by the toxic portion of the community is a great aspect to consider. Not saying this is unique to Fedora Linux, but any major desktop Linux operating system has great support and documentation so common issues can be quickly/easily remedied, Fedora is a great example as well as Ubuntu, Debian, and OpenSUSE. Getting drivers and utilizing proprietary hardware is easy to enable and set up (literally a menu with some options to tick in RPM manager) so getting Nvidia drivers isn't a massive headache of a hunt to go through and get then to install if you need it. The community with Fedora luckily hasn't been as bad/toxic of an experience when having to ask for help and general questions on their OFFICIAL platforms/forums and the like, not saying they don't exist every community/group has that aspect but as said previously mentioned this doesn't seem to be as often. Another mention I'd like to mention is switching desktop environments is pretty much an absolute breeze and can get the most up to date version (I usually main Cinnamon) and default packs the most up to date GNOME which I'd argue is now a great experience in it's own right. And of course it's official page leads to spins you can download which is just base Fedora but with a different DE loaded if you're a bit lazy. I'd highly recommend this for a stable, up to date, and secure desktop operating system.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-01-05
Votes: 2
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My Machine is a Lenovo Thinkcentre M92 Desktop with 8GB RAM and an i5 processor (somewhat old).
I'm probably a little bit above average (in normie land) when it comes to being computer and internet savvy but at the end of the day I'm just a script kiddy. I can't be bothered learning the nuts and bolts of Linux to any great degree.
I tried installing Debian (as I believed it to be similar to Fedora in terms of privacy and security, and I was aware a lot more apps, such as Signal, are built for Debian) but just found it to be too time consuming and overly complicated to install, so abandoned it.
I'm currently using Fedora 37 Compiz Mate and so far it's the best of all worlds.
Default Fedora 37 (Gnome) is great but slows this machine too much. Even XFCE Fedora 37 is a bit laggy on this machine.
LXQT and LXQT Fedora 37 are good to use on this machine speed wise but nowhere near as crisp and enjoyable to look at as Fedora 37 Compiz Mate.
Installing Fedora 37 Compiz Mate was a breeze for me. However I would say an absolute Linux beginner would probably get confused at the partitioning stage of the installation. That probably could be made a little more "dummy-proof" for a default setup.
One thing I can't seem to install is Signal Messenger (not a version maintained by Signal itself anyway).
All in all as a relative Linux dummy, after having tried maybe a dozen or so distros, I'm really liking Fedora 37 Compiz Mate.
I also like what I read about Fedora's privacy policy.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-03
Votes: 3
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In 1999 I started using the Red Hat retail distribution, RH5.1. I've used Red Hat retail through RH9. Fedora was pretty uneven from FC1 through FC4, but I've used Fedora since FC5. GNOME 2.0 was fine. The only major glitch in my Fedora use came in 2011 with Fedora adopting GNOME 3.0. I hated (and still hate) GNOME 3.x and its successors. Since then, and up to the present (F37), the standard install here has been Fedora/XFCE. On the software front, there have been few problems:
(1) gcc has been reliable throughout
(2) xBASE support has been reliable, even though I've changed the compiler: Flagship -> xHarbour -> Harbour
(3) Python has been mostly reliable (except for the pretty rough transition Python2 -> Python3 (.... not caused by the Fedora team) )
One serious problem has been the transition from GTK3 to GTK4.....which is a problem caused by Red Hat. I have a lot of Glade/GTK3 applications written in both Python and C. GTK4 (adopted by Red Hat) is not backward compatible with GTK3. As a consequence the Glade team refuse to move off GTK3. So I am forced to consider two options: a) stay on Glade/GTK3 .... or b) rewrite everything using GTK4. I've chosen option a).....even though it will probably mean I'm stuck in a dead end! It seems to me that the RH/Fedora team are doing nothing to help me with this problem.
Overall, Fedora has been an excellent environment since FC5 up till F37 today. Recommended! .... but see comments above!
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-12-23
Votes: 4
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I'm using KDE Spin for my daily use for 3 months. It works flawlessly on my hardware (cpu ryzen 5 3500x, gpu rx6600)
I play steam games, get some JS development done, dockerize some stuff...
So far I havent got any breaking bugs, kde version is way better than gnome in terms of stability.
You have to configure dnf and add fusion packages. as people have mentioned its better not to mix fusion with flats, update center can get finicky after that.
Absolutely recommend this distro's kde spin for daily use and get stuff done.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-12-17
Votes: 4
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I started using Red Hat at 5.1 but drifted away to the lure of Debian's apt and synaptic package management. Fedora has come a long way and now is my daily use system. It has been very reliable but time and upgrades will tell. Having used MX for a few years i can say this Fedora version is offers some interesting features:
* Bios settings are evaluated post install for security
* Suspend and resume function as it should
* Skype and Zoom are supported
* Flatpak is supported, and this is a game changer
* Gnome bias, but very well done.
Some things that need improvement:
* Software install via GUI is slow, console using dnf for installing is fast, they really need synaptic
* Multimedia codecs need to be installed manually, after enabling Fusion repository is enabled
* Firewall needs to be installed manually
This distribution has good hardware support and is very stable. Most popular packages are a click way and tons of support online. great to see Fedora come out with a great base. This distribution is the Cheerios version of Linux which is all right by me.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-12-12
Votes: 5
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Installed just fine on three laptops and one desktop computer.
Opted for the KDE Spin and it's awesome. Too many issues with GNOME.
Once I got the Fusion Free, Fusion Non-Free and Flathub repositories put in place that's all I needed to do.
Don't have nVidia graphics thankfully so didn't have to deal with that headache.
It recognized all my hardware except the WiFi on my old MacBook. Just had to install broadcom-wl and after reboot, I was in business.
I use this for casual, work and play. No issues no complaints.
Thanks!
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-12-09
Votes: 0
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Fedora 37 breaks immediately after install
Yesterday, I wanted to install some editions of Fedora on my device, Lenovo Legion 5 AMD Ryzen 5 4600H with NVIDIA RTX 2060 GPU. Once I checked live user environment, everything seemed to run fine. I spared some space on my SSD to install Fedora and used default partition for Fedora. After installation process had already done, I proceed to reboot my device. Everything ran OK when my device booted to GRUB menu. But, it could not continue booting as initial setup process didn't run fluently and could not continue to desktop after login! I tried for second time using rescue kernel, but it was scarier: My device's fan started screaming and seemed to kill itself, so I shut it down immediately.
It was not once and I tried many spins of Fedora: Cinnamon, MATE, XFCE, and KDE, all of that ran awfully. It was a TERRIBLE experience to use a such stable distro. What a shame!
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-12-06
Votes: 1
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Spin Cinnamon
I'll make it short: Just as fast as the Fedora workstation (with Gnome) the Cinnamon edition can be installed. Cinnamon is tailored for daily use, very stable and never gets in the way of daily use. Hardware (printer, scanner, wifi) work out of the box.
In this respect everything is fine.
Only: Why instead of the Linux Mint Software Center the old-fashioned dnfdragora is installed, I cannot understand. It's slow, confusing, unattractive and doesn't offer much. Flatpak or Flathub cannot be created in dnfdragora. Solution 1: Install the needed software via the webface of Flathub (via terminal). Solution 2: Install the Gnome Software Center. This way Flathub can be installed and used. Therefore one point deduction from the ten it would have deserved. Overall, I find the combination of Cinnamon and Fedora great for daily use: Both very stable and up to date.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 4
Date: 2022-12-06
Votes: 0
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Fedora has a big problem for users. I just installed it and normally it worked out of the box on everything. My new Ryzen HP Omen 30 Nvdia 3080 16 GB Ram. Under Fedora 37 it CANNOT play it's connected external speakers as loud as they can play in windows. I have now spent several hours of my life that I can't get back and many days on the forums trying to figure this out and how to fix. No one seems to know either why my volume is so limited. THIS IS TERRIBLE!
There is no reason why a more modern and more powerful computer cannot outdo Windows out of the box under a linux distribution. Apparently this problem is not limited to Fedora but the same issue occurs under MInt. I have spent several days now exchanging communication with the community and no one has any answers. It is not a hardware issue involving the same speakers. The same speakers work excellent and as expected under windows.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 5
Date: 2022-12-04
Votes: 0
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Not able to install. When a new partition is being created its size is automatically fixed at 256 MB, I do not how and why. This is when the user actually puts a size of 75GB, even then it does not take it and relapses to 256 MB. Another issue is that it does not go to next step if an additional partition for boot/efi is not created/not available!
I am currently using debian based Emmabuntus and I want another one RPM based distro. The fedora and many based on it demand a similar situation for installation as stated above, that is they all have the common installer, anaconda, and it does not make a difference what the distro is, if it is based on RPM. I just tried nobara and it meets the same end.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-12-01
Votes: 10
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I recommend Fedora, because it is getting better and better with each release, but without any major unpleasant surprises. It is very open source focused, so some things may seem like an unpleasant surprise, but then you understand the reasons and it seems fine. Anyways, there are always some workarounds.
I feel that Fedora also listens to the community very much. Those who make decisions about this distro listen to the community feedback, and the distro seems to be very coherent with needs of professionals and enthusiasts who use Fedora.
Fedora users and developers care and love this distro, that is why the releases may be delayed, so the system is released with everything secure and working fine,
It is very stable, works fine on my Dell laptop. I installed workstation, but I am very interested to test and use Silverblue for a while, and other versions. With new ARM and CoreOS versions Fedora is adding to its own "ecosystem".
I recommend this distro, but it is not for super beginners. You need to know how to configure it fine. Once it is configured, it will work perfectly well, the updates do not break (from my experience in previous years).
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-11-28
Votes: 0
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I am posting this because I do not know where else to post it and I thought it would be of interest. I bought, after running an I5 for 10-12 to years. an I7-12700, and I bought it because it was rehabbed and it was a good price. I had some problems with cheap flash drives and errors, so testing is not completed, but so far Fedora 37 is the first distro that sort of works except for sound, but I think that may be fixed soon. I was very surprised because it was the first distro to work and I tried several. I also tested some rolling releases, and ClearOS, but the rolling releases did not have live ones to try, and I had problems with Etcher failing and trusting it when it worked. I am running Ubuntu on the I5, and Tumbleweed on a laptop. It may be amusing to know that when it started working I saw so many distros that I thought it rebooted and that Windows 11 was running, but it was not and it was Fedora 37 after all.
Because I thought Windows 11 was working and I had no sound I tried to fix it and then I tried all my old headsets including usb ones, playing with sound, and trying to fix the speakers. Finally when I could not solve the problem, I had no recourse, but to give up trying to fix the problem and reboot Windows and hope that solved the problem, only then I noticed it was not Windows 11, but Fedora that was running.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-11-28
Votes: 0
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For me a lot of improvements have been made to this version 37 compared to the previous one which I hated.
"Fedora" 37 works pretty well if you don't mix RPM and flatpak packages.
For usual use of a pc: office automation, internet etc... "Fedora" works without problems.
My printer after downloading and installing the manufacturer's RPM drivers also works without problems.
My Bluetooth headset like every Linux distribution sometimes disconnects for no reason whatever I do...
For gaming I was surprised to find that some games that work quite badly with some distros work quite well with "Fedora 37".
On the other hand I found Steam quite buggy but it may be my fault because I mixed my system with RPM and Flatpak packages...
I recommend this distro.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-11-27
Votes: 9
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I thought Fedora was a "fad", I was reluctant to try it, but I did and I'm in love. It is a deep love. Fedora does everything right: it has the stability and dependability of Debian, it has the speed to install packages and update like Arch. I have had no problems with Wi-Fi, hardware, or printer. All good, all fast on the Cinammon desktop (I don't like Gnome). Like Debian or Opensuse, you have to configure things after installing the distro, but learning is very easy (it's not Gentoo). I have 4 different distros on my pc sharing the "home" folder: arch, debian, opensuse and fedora. On another pc I have gentoo. I give fedora a 10. I'm sorry I fell in love with you so late, Fedora!!!! Eternal love!!! Eternal Flame!!!!
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-11-26
Votes: 3
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I wished moving to Fedora for the reason that apps are mostly up to date. BUT what can I say!! A BIG NOOOO. It is not for me.
First, I installed Fedora 36, because I want to install MikTeX (there is no F37 repository). But after upgrading to F37, MikTeX was marked with unresolved dependencies. So, I do a fresh F37 install and install Texlive.
My wifi card connect only to 2.4GHz frequency, the 5Ghz band is not working (however, it works fine with ubuntu).
The clarity of the fonts, and the contrast, are terrible. Just open a (long) text in the text editor and see how dull are the colors-black (your eyes get tired). Switching to dark mode solve the problem, BUT in the other hand, reading PDF become very painful and the office writer become ridiculous.
I have also invested too much time installing extensions apps, the fonts, install new icons, Dash to panel, ... Finally, my desktop can actually be used (not really satisfied because random wallpaper is not working). Also, some file icon not working, e.g. I installed keepassxc but no icon for the .kdbx files, same thing for the Tex files (so, it is difficult to find a Tex file because it is similar to the others auxiliary generated files).
Sometimes, I get a pop-up with this message: "Oops, it looks like a problem has occurred ..." (unexpected system error; nautils quit unexpectedly; totem-video-thumnailer quit unexpectedly).
I've installed the audio and video codecs, still some movies crashes. So, I installed VLC; no crash but video lag.
I know that these things (and maybe others) can be solved (manually), but I'm afraid when upgrading, I return to the starting point again !!
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-11-24
Votes: 2
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As a few years linux user (ubuntu, debian, linuxmint, manjaro, opensuse leap and tumbleeed etc.) Fedora with gnome environment and spin with kde for about 2 months. As for the gnome workstation, it's literally a revelation, generally without bugs. Easy to install and use, updates from F36 to 37 flawlessly without using terminal via gnome software. I have a 12 year old laptop with an i5 processor and 4gb ram. Minimum temperatures, responsive, when I run the video it automatically directs me to install the H.265 codec, a few seconds and it works. There are no problems with the media. As for me, an ordinary user, Worstation is a simple and stable machine.
As for the KDE spin, things are a bit worse here. It generally works and there is no such thing as a blue screen of death with windows. Requires some tweaking in the terminal. Need to add RPM Fusion in terminal (fedora provides detailed what and how). You can also search in the discower software, but it never worked for me, it's supposed to be but you can't upload. The dragon movie player does not work here, you must install the required codecs in the terminal, also described in the fedora help, but it's really simple. However, dragon doesn't meet my requirements (doesn't rotate videos) so I also install vlc in the terminal. The already installed dnfdragora (ala synaptic) will help us to install the libreoffice language file and ffmpegthumbs to preview the videos (later in the file settings you need to select it). I have one error for which I can't find a solution at the moment, i.e. sometimes the screen with the panel disappears for literally a second, two as if it was reloading. In addition, the system is light, fast and everything works smoothly. I've used tumbleweed with kde before, it's also very good and stable, but I'm annoyed by its dependencies when uninstalling programs, e.g. when I uninstall firefox, it automatically installs Mozilla Thunderbird for me. I recommend this system even for beginners especially gnome.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 4
Date: 2022-11-23
Votes: 8
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Fedora Workstation 37.
It is certain that Fedora is getting better, but still far from being a good alternative for Windows users; here are some complaints:
- Basic things should be installed by default (like some popular fonts, otherwise some apps won't work as expected) or for example giving an alternative to 'Timeshift' since it is not compatible with Fedora BTRFS (you do not expect the newbie user to spend hours to figure it out or learning command line BTRFS).
- The Gnome file experience is very limited: no bookmarks, no open as root, no folder color, no emblems, no plugins, ... Also, Gnome extension is a must (Fedora should follow ROSA Linux in this point), a newbie user ignores all this, the names of good extensions even perhaps how to add the weather extension.
- Nvidia's hardware decoding is not working. Also, the default 'Gnome videos' is bad (lagging, no H.265 support) and no good players are provided in the software center !!
- Software center always suggests Flatpak by default instead of the Fedora RPM (why !!)
- Some applications interfaces are not pleasant in Fedora (for comparison, I've tested Maple 2022 in Fedora 37 vs Linux Mint 21)
- In general, Fedora is not well suited for old computers, and users with limited Internet.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-11-23
Votes: 92
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In my opinion, KDE should be the flagship desktop environment for Fedora not GNOME. It's lighter, faster, way more modern and familiar, not prone to the issues of extensions and looks great on a smaller screen (great scalability). GNOME is overly bloated, puffy, fat with its windows theme and is basically unusable on a small screen.
That being said, using Fedora KDE Spin for work and play and couldn't be happier!
OnlyOffice is my office suite of choice and is excellent by the way. With Steam installed I can play Guild Wars 2 along with a ton of other games.
There is nothing to NOT like about Fedora. It really is fantastic. I even installed it on my 2012 MacBook Pro. XD
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-11-23
Votes: 1
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I am a novice linux user, need to make that clear.
Installation is easy but a bit unintuitive as far as storage is concerned. I found it hard to just erase the drive through the installer, it wanted to shrink the partitions, and used the disk tool to clear all partitions. Switched back to the installer, it looked like it understood that the drive contents had changed, but it crashed. Could not find a way to restart the installer through menu's, but I found out it was still running, I think I alt-tabbed. Went smooth from there.
OOB experience is great, installed what I needed, even Steam. Rock solid experience. This was a test install on an older A8 AMD system, to check it out after hearing good things about Fedora. Still much to learn and see as far as linux and Fedora in particular goes, but I think I will make the switch in the near future.
So here it is, a novice users recommendation. Smooth sailing. Fast and rock solid so far. I will use it on the side for a few more days, and if everything goes like the experience I had so far, will switch my main pc to Fedora as well.
Linux has come a long way, I'm glad to say. Great job Fedora devs.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-11-19
Votes: 8
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For context, my prior Linux experience goes back to 2005 and includes significant time with SUSE, Debian (on a server), ArchBang, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (servers), Lubuntu, and Manjaro. Three months ago, after nine months of running Manjaro Xfce on my Framework (11th Gen Intel) laptop, I decided to hop over to Fedora with GNOME for a variety of reasons.
One of my reasons was wanting better support for both hardware and software. Framework has developed a relationship with Fedora and the Framework-Fedora community of users is relatively large, so it’s well-tested. The installation instructions from Framework include turning on, for example, the experimental fractional scaling feature in Wayland GNOME which works well and helps with the odd 3000x2000 Framework display. I’ve also routinely found that the software I need officially supports only Ubuntu or Fedora, so it’s nice to be in one of those camps.
I broke my first installation of Fedora by screwing around to disable the splash screen, show the GRUB menu on every boot, and increase the font size. After re-installing, I decided to just accept the defaults. The only issue is that maybe 1 in 10 times the graphical text box for my LUKS password doesn’t show up. At first I thought the system was frozen, but it’s just waiting for the password, and I press ESC to enter it on the terminal with its tiny font. I’m deducting one point for this.
Everything else looks and feels slick so far. I’ve come to appreciate the opinionated style of vanilla GNOME and the offline updates feature (where it installs updates after rebooting into a special state) through the graphical GNOME Software.
One thing that pleasantly surprised me is that it gets very frequent updates. It’s a point release distro like something in the Debian family, so I expected somewhat infrequent updates, but its kernels and packages stay about as up-to-date as something in the rolling release Arch family. You could update daily if you wanted, but it only pushes a notification every other week unless there’s a critical security update (which produces an immediate notification).
I was slightly nervous about the release upgrade from 36 to 37, but that went smoothly. It took no longer than a normal offline update of the kernel and packages, and I haven’t found anything broken in the first few days.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-11-16
Votes: 9
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Impeccable upgrade to version 37 - KDE desktop
Professional:
Stability
Clarity
The latest news
Support and exchanges on the forums
Cons:
Nothing
Fedora is meant to be reserved primarily for hardcore IT people, yet it can be used by people looking for a complete office and everyday solution.
The distro is less messy than others, we find the info quickly. Desktop integration is perfect, at least for KDE and Gnome.
To be tested in VM or by USB if you wish. Criticism on other messages, I have nothing negative to say about Fedora 37, which I tested for 1 month in Beta.
Yes, for the road: the forums bring together a lot of hardcore computer scientists, polite but less understanding than in other more open and sociable communities. It's cold but they respond very quickly so that's good too...
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-11-15
Votes: 9
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Simply the best.
Pros -
The install process with Anaconda once you carry it out a few times is one of the best.
It just works.
All of the spins are very usable.
You can install a minimum system from the everything ISO and build what you want.
The forums are all supportive.
Cons -
None really all Linux distributions are good -it is all personal preference.
Gnome 43 is very good and user friendly, for vanilla Gnome you cannot go wrong Gnome as Gnome devs meant it to be.
However, you can tweak it to you own requirements.
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Project: Fedora
Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-11-15
Votes: 9
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Upgraded without a hitch!
What can I say, Fedora has been great for as long as I've been using it (KDE Spin) and well deserving of a 10 out of 10 rating. I have dove into other distros to try them out but it's always felt like a step backwards.
Fedora works and works very very well. Stable, fresh and feels very much like a commercial operating system. They care about their product. Meaning, if it isn't ready, they don't deploy it.
This is an every day use, daily driver, whatever you want to call it, system you can rely on. And if it breaks because you're someone that likes to dink with things, that's on you.
Coming from Windows? Give Fedora KDE Spin a try. You may wonder why you didn't sooner.
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