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My compan has a couple hundred cheap AMD ryzen laptops with Fedora giving macbook pros a run for their money! I spend about 500$ on them (which includes a SSD). Its the world class desktop OS for the developing world!
I love developing on Linux too, and I really want it to be the best, but it's just not there yet.
> consistent touchpad gestures,
GNOME has this.
> rock-solid stability,
Yep.
> instant wake from suspend without draining battery consistently,
Has that even been a problem this decade?
> great GPU drivers
I defy you to claim that great GPU drivers exist on any operating system, but as long as you're not using Nvidia Linux is perfectly good.
Why someone would purchase such product is up to their decision. They surely should know, that they are getting into unsupported territory, where nobody did any integration. But it is their money they are throwing at Nvidia.
> Has that even been a problem this decade?
Actually, it was, when PC vendors decided they don't need ACPI S3 state, and Connected standby is enough. Connected standby requires support from OS, and when it was introduced, only Windows 10 supported it.
But not that Macs don't have their sleep issues either. It is a lottery, whether a Mac connected to a TB dock will wake up or not (it will after disconnecting the dock).
I've been looking for a viable contender and it appears that it just doesn't exist
The Ryzens are obviously in another league altogether here, but unless we get a Ryzen XPS, the Intel XPS are not bad.
but with the latest 5.0.7 kernels (F30 onwards).. they work great. maybe I lose a bit of battery life, but who cares.
There are two ACPI bugs (because of Acer bios issue), but the latest kernel (viz Fedora 30) has it working fine.
It works great with linux though, very happy with that part.
I'm super excited about it though and will keep using it every month, it finally solves the dependency problem most distributions run into.
]and congratulations to Fedora!]
Just think about it, your full argument is FUD because you try to imply that some open source code is proprietary when in fact it is not.
On the other topic, did Debian or other big distro submited a patch to include support for configuring third party stores, did they submit test code for the changes and it was rejected? If yes please link that instead of the FUD.
On the other hand, the design of snap, despite the code being open source, does not mean that the system (system as a collection of code, network services, network effects, network control, bizdev relations, etc) as a whole is non-proprietary. For similar story, see also: Android.
You are complaining that an open source tool is not using your preferred thing, you want snap to point to a Debian store, get the source, replace the Canonical store url with a Debian store, then create the store backend and implement the APIs.
Do you have any complaint about the Canonical store? Did they censored your favorite thing or your issue is that you can't just from principles.
Edit About my FUD accusation, maybe you should not get involved in a comment where I correct the OP about him spreading FUD in a vague attempt to protect him. The comment thread was not about what format is better is all about what proprietary means and not have fanboys use the terms wrong.
I also tried out Silverblue, but it was super unpolished, not a lot of documentation, and there's rpms I couldn't get installed that I needed for work.
Fedora is still my favorite Linux distro for just getting things done. Red Hat is a focal point for kernel and systems developers so you know you're getting no frills quality.
Fedora has a pretty loose upgrade policy with non-critical packages. It may well get updated, and if not, they may provide it via modularity. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1672268#c14
Fedora isn't cutting edge compared to actual rolling release distros so if that's still too much for you then RHEL or CentOS should be enough.
It kinda depends upon what you're doing with your computer. E.g. if I weren't into gaming I would be using CentOS over Fedora (or Ubuntu).
-Cron jobs don't run
-Package manager creates multi-gigabyte log files
-Package manager crashes on systems upgraded from previous releases
-GNOME crashes when switching to a virtual terminal and back
-Default bluetooth config doesn't work for some devices
-Ethernet runs at 10mbps instead of 1gbps
Bluetooth (Bluez) is a trainwreck on any distro; even the version shipped with Ubuntu 18.04 (LTS!) is broken.
Broken BT support in a Windows context generally means poor drivers for a given device - at least the Windows 10, which is almost 4 years old, has a stable BT stack. Therefore, BT problems are of particular (per-device) nature.
In Ubuntu, the problem is systemic, due to (even ignoring how terrible the BT protocol is) both Bluez's (alleged) terrible engineering practices, and Ubuntu's utter carelessness of the area. In this terms, BT problems are of universal nature.
For example, the 18.04 Pulseaudio/BT configuration is broken by default - see https://askubuntu.com/a/1050172.
This is not an exception; the Pulseaudio/BT configuration has been broken in a way or another since... forever. Very evidently, the Ubuntu devs prefer to ship a broken-but-up-to-date BT stack, than a working-but-old one.
For a more historical perspective of the Ubuntu/Bluez trainwreck, see http://www.bennybottema.com/2010/08/08/how-ubuntus-broken-bl.... Summary: "Bluez is a bunch of cowboy coders is why".
Though I have yet to see any BT implementation that isn't at least a little bit broken. Nobody actually conforms to the spec so you have to attempt to make your noncomforance work with the widest possible variety of other vendors' nonconformance and you'll always find device combinations that just don't work together.
Also, Fedora gets new kernels all the time, and that often takes care of problems that sometimes persist in more "stable" distributions.
I have one mid-level issue per release, I figure, and it is usually patched within a couple of weeks.
I did have a bad experience upgrading from F27-29, so I've only been on F29 for maybe a month or so, and it has been smooth so far. I will probably wait a few weeks to a month to upgrade to F30 to increase my chances of a trouble-free transition.
dnf could definitely work on keeping its generated garbage down to a more reasonable size, though.
It is a pain to build it at all, from the sources. With the exception of the apple/swift repo, all the other apple/swift-* repos do not even seem to have tagged releases. At least not in the sense that other projects do releases.
Yes, I got it from the official website. Yes, I checked the hash.
The impression probably would have been a lot different if the messages were delivered in a format that didn't look exactly like banner ads on the WWW.
Due to this the "adds" might look out of place as the rest of the screen is empty. At the moment it is unclear if they will be replaced by some new bigger artwork or just by a bigger and more fancy installation progress reporting.
Are you seriously complaining about that? Or is it something else I just didn't see yet?
Because if it's the former, I sure hope you're not using MacOS, Ubuntu, centos, opensuse or windows either to name a few. They do the same thing after all.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/8bh7av/quick_font_r...
Also, I saw this in the news a while ago: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-C...
... so it looks like it's enabled, but not configured? If Fedora's freetype contains all the patches, perhaps the Reddit thread above is obsolete now?
Hmm, that's interesting, so this is the same ClearType algorithm as the one currently used in Windows 10? I actually hope Linux distros won't switch to Windows-like antialiasing, I definitely prefer Ubuntu's antialiasing (Windows' fonts are too thin an pixelated for me).
I recently switched to a 4K/24" monitor and I actually cannot say that the Windows fonts are pixelated, but they are still too thin. And the larger fonts don't look good - as if the hinting was completely disabled for them.
It's enormously improved over, say, Fedora 23. If you had issues with a newer version like, say, 28, I don't know. I don't personally have an issue with it.
Using both the default and KDE spin in VM's and on Lenovo laptops.
Ubuntu is much more 'polished' in feel and appearance, but (especially the KDE spin) Fedora feels so much faster or maybe just smoother.
P.S. I know that this is a non-issue...a simple alias would prevent future woes.
Both perfectly good systems. Both are reasonably up-to-date though Arch is more cutting edge, and Fedora has releases rather than rolling release. Fedora has a real company backing it at some level. Arch probably has the greatest package availability of any operating system (at all, if we allow the AUR).
> but forgetting to mount my boot
...so stick it in fstab? Using -o bind if need be.
The Arch vs. Fedora comparison is not very sensible given how different the update models are... if you're ok with Fedora's update schedule it can be a fine choice.
I sometimes go as long as a few months between updates on my desktop – and that's been running Arch for some years now and hasn't needed a reinstall from scratch.
There are a lot of components that have to work together for a Linux desktop to provide the features most people take for granted nowadays. If you don't want to bother with tinkering, Fedora provides one such configuration that generally works out of the box. Arch provides you with pacman and a really good wiki.
Big caveat: He doesn't use binary Nvidia drivers (integrated GPU on his laptop). It seems upgrades always seem to snag on Nvidia drivers from my experience.
Sometimes, I need to switch from supported release to legacy release of drivers or switch back, because of NVidia politics to remove old drives from binary.
Recommended command for system upgrade is `sudo dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=30` then `sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot` .