Fedora

Reader supplied reviews for Fedora Average rating 8.3 from 371 review(s) 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: -- rawhide4140393837363534333231302928272625242322212019181716151413121110987654321 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: 41 Rating: 8 Date: 2025-03-13 Votes: 0 I have been using Fedora Silverblue 41 for a few weeks now and I am pleasantly surprised. I have already tried it in earlier versions and found it unsustainable. That has now changed. With the new “Refine” tool, you can also make limited changes to the appearance. Finally, you no longer have to resort to the “Extensions”. Unfortunately, the default setting in Gnome is still not set to “Dash to Dock” and so every new user sees a screen without a panel at first, until he possibly gets the idea to click to the top left to discover the panel. What nonsense! And stubbornness. The portals that Fedora maintains are extensive, but unfortunately quite confusing until you find answers. On the positive side, if you find it, it is gladly provided. However, the response times in the software center are annoying. Sometimes you really have to go for a coffee. This is faster in the Linux Mint software center. Unfortunately, there is still no sign of the announced new Fedora installation medium. Therefore 8/10 points. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 41 Rating: 2 Date: 2025-03-10 Votes: 0 It is by far the worst distro I have ever tried in my life. I know it has many fans, but this distro only crashes, it doesn't work. Therefore, it is unstable and unreliable, which is something unusual for a Linux distro. I don't know if this bad experience was because of my hardware, but I don't think so, because I tested it on a PC and on my laptop, and on both the experience was equally bad. And look, I have tried it several times, every time they change the version I try, but I regret it later because I remember that everything is difficult. I apologize to the fans, but this distro is not good for me. É de longe a pior distro que já testei na vida. Sei que ela tem muitos fãs, mas essa distro só quebra, não funciona. Logo, ela é instável, não confiável, o que para uma distro linux é algo incondizente. Não sei se essa má experiẽncia foi por causa do meu hardware, mas acho que não, pois testei em PC e em meu laptop, em ambos a experiência foi igualmente péssima. E olha que já tentei várias vezes, sempre que mudam a versão eu tento, mas me arrependo depois porque lembro que é tudo difícil. Peço desculpa aos fãs, mas essa distro não é boa para mim. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 41 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-03-09 Votes: 15 Fedora: The first distribution that I installed in 2009, and it remains the last one I gonna install. Over the years, new technologies like systemd, Wayland, PipeWire, Btrfs, and even GNOME 3 were in their early stages, and Fedora, being a leading-edge distribution, often had issues that made it challenging to use daily. I couldn't last more than 3-4 months on any distribution for years, constantly switching back and forth among various options, mostly Ubuntu (up to version 12.10), Arch, and Debian. However, I always found myself returning to Fedora. I remember Fedora 17 as a rock-solid daily driver, but things went awry with versions 18, 19, and 20. Version 21, however, Fedora leads forward. Nowadays, almost all the fundamental changes needed for the new Linux desktop era are complete, making Fedora a reliable and well-updated system. - Leading-edge (a drawback in the past, but now a positive aspect) - Reliable - A large community worldwide - Committed to open-source and free software - Offers the best GNOME experience (from version 42, no more lags on Intel iGPUs; GNOME 48 finally merged the triple buffering merge request) -brilliant backward compatibility, allowing it to be installed on both MBR BIOS and UEFI-only systems - Fedora Friends Freedom Free - If you have a laptop that needs to run smoothly without any issues, enywhere, there are Silverblue and Atomic versions available. Choosing a distribution as your main one involves personal preferences, hardware, and use cases. However, from a technical standpoint, you can't go wrong with Fedora if you decide to pick it. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 371 reader reviews of Fedora...