Fedora 32 is officially here
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Most of my experience is with Ubuntu but I'm really liking Fedora 32. Specifically I like the changes they've brought into Firefox; it's now using Wayland widgets by default and GPU acceleration with the Intel GPU that I have.
Anecdotally there seems to be less latency than with my previous set up with Ubuntu 20.04LTS (don't put much store by that as it is just an anecdote for now).
I also like the flicker free vendor boot screen.
I carried out a fresh install. Everything was seamless and quick against an XPS13.
It will be interesting to see what else is different between the two.
I've got a newish Lenovo X1 Extreme, and I was starting to become frustrated with it before this release.
In trying rolling releases, namely Arch and the Manjaro derivative, I seem to have more upgrade version conflicts than I do with regular Fedora `dnf upgrade` and the bi-annual system upgrade.
The Arch conflicts are often resolved by waiting a few days for the community fixes to the broken upgrade paths, because I don't use anything too rare.
But given the relative popularity of the Arch approach, and the frequency of people who state anecdotally "I have never borked a system with pacman", but I seem to have the opposite experience, what are the real advantages to a rolling release compared to the Fedora approach?
[1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/dnf-system-u...
https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-fedora-31-to-fedora-32/
It's possible I just happen to not be using the broken packages, but I've been using Arch as my daily driver for about six years now, and I've run into package conflicts when upgrading maybe once or twice. For me, having a package conflict once every three years or so (which as you say is generally resolved within a couple days) is worth immediately getting upgrades for everything on my system rather than having to wait for a new release of the OS itself. I also prefer not having the default desktop environment tied to the distro I'm using; although I do use Gnome, every distro I've tried out that has it pre-installed comes with a lot of extra stuff that I don't want installed, and even after removing it, some systems will reinstall most of it on OS upgrades. I completely understand the appeal of a distro that has explicit releases and comes working out-of-the-box, but it's just not something I want.
The new version of DNF features colored output for more commands.
The purge of stale python2 packages continues at a good pace.
EarlyOOM has also arrived.