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Is that not what Red Hat is? I thought that's what the Red Hat license provided?

>> ... and awesome UI/UX.

> Is that not what Red Hat is? I thought that's what the Red Hat license provided?

I won't say anything bad about Red Hat, but calling the UX awesome isn't something I would do based on my experience. Then again, they might have changed but I haven't heard anybody mentioning it.

(This used to be Canonicals niche before they picked up the assumption that Mac-like == Good ; )

I may have skipped over the awesome UX. More of the stable and paid dev work.

I'll agree most UX on Linux isn't great. But GUI is such a pain in the ass that most people really don't want to work on it. Plus, plenty of Linux users aren't casual users and will accept or prefer function over form.

I myself am a heavy terminal user and pretty much limit my GUI use to the occasional image editor and the browser.

Agree. It was just the singling out of RH when GP asked for awesome UX.

Fedora is ahead of RedHat server, kernel and package-wise. That's the point: pish the edge with the desktop, keep the server conservative and very stable.

RedHat makes their money on support licensing for the server. Employees are paid to work on Fedora, but it is not the RedHat product.

Fedora is also the only mainstream distro I ever gave up on, admittedly 5 or so years ago but still.

Why?

Graphics failed in KDE spin and I was unable to figure out why.

Ah okay. Yeah, Fedora is really focused on GNOME :/

That's really sad to hear.. if you think the GNOME 3 UI is buggy, childish, opinionated, and hard to customize (I've yet to get a downloaded theme to work right the first time) Fedora is a non-starter.

Which is really too bad. It's the only RPM distro I've seen that's reasonably well put together.

Well, this is about switching from macOS which hasn't theme support at all IIRC.

Actually I think gnome 3 is (at least wasn't) too bad compared to Unity, UX wise - I just personally preferred KDE.

Edit: this -

> Which is really too bad. It's the only RPM distro I've seen that's reasonably well put together.

Anything specific I should be aware of wrt OpenSUSE?

Probably nothing that can't be easily dismissed as personal preference. I recall YaST had a bad habit of unnecessarily cycling network interfaces when certain changes were made, but that was a long while ago.

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