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Reader supplied reviews for Fedora Average rating 8.3 from 442 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on Fedora? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- rawhide43424140393837363534333231302928272625242322212019181716151413121110987654321 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 43 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-11-06 Votes: 3 Since the beginning, I've been using Red Hat 6.2 (before Fedora Core 1). I use it as a desktop. For servers, I used Red Hat, then CentOS, and now Rocky Linux, but I still use Fedora for desktop. With the constant development and improvement of the latest versions with the latest applications, it's truly a pleasure. I hope Fedora continues to develop and more people use it in the future... because it's so easy and simple. I really like the Gnome desktop... it's fantastic for me. Very elegant and very easy to use... Furthermore, the hardware support is also excellent. Thank you to the Fedora team for making my work so much easier. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 43 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-11-06 Votes: 1 I've been a Linux user since 1998 and have used a plethora of distros, not only the major ones like Debian, Arch, or openSUSE, but also smaller ones like SliTaz. Fedora 41 and now 42 are by far the most solid systems I have used in recent years, with an astonishingly simple and reliable installer. As a full-time Linux user, I occasionally install Linux alongside existing Windows 10/11 (dual boot) for friends. Fedora surprised me with how straightforward it was in handling a dedicated Windows 11 drive, resizing it and making room for itself in a breeze. It was just a few clicks and voilà! If your goal is to work with a hassle-free Linux system, then the Fedora distro is a must. Everything simply works. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 43 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-11-03 Votes: 5 I ran live and tweaked then installed Fedora 43 with its interpretation of KDE. This is a better release than we've seen off and on over the years. Fedora reminds me a bit of Suse iterations in that every now and then they seem to get it right, but most of the time there is something "clunky" or just distracting about setting up, getting to know, and running it every day. 43 is a good one. I downloaded the .iso, burned it to flash drive, rebooted, selected "install," plucked my way through the simple Anaconda simple steps, rebooted again and there it was: A nice crisp desktop ready to roll, complete with wifi set up and an easier than the old days KDE was to tweak a bit to my liking. Boot up from cold on this Acer Aspire A-517-52 is 22 seconds. Shut down from a day's work and play is 8 seconds. Not bad at all. I am now worried about Fedora 44. I say that with a little grin because as mentioned this distro does seem to have its ups and downs from release to release; here's hoping it stays as reliable and slick to set up and use as it is now with version 43. The repos and offered software are now more thorough than I recall from earlier versions. I noticed codecs and other needed goodies are included in the original download and more right there in the default repos if desired; no hunting and messing with the terminal for special repos for various things once "hidden" from us to find. Updates show up as notifications on the bottom right from time to time, and function smoothly and reliably so far as I have seen, about one every third day or so. No glitches or error messages; just the update download and a reboot and that's that. I can't subtract points for anything that I can see after using this now since the day it was dropped and noticed at Distrowatch. I do think that KDE still needs some code polishing a bit to get it as snappy as some other DEs, but it honestly is much better in that regard than it used to be. 10 points. :o) Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 442 reader reviews of Fedora...