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Just-released Fedora 19 adds native support for 3D printers

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So, Windows 8.1 will now be at least the 2nd released OS to integrate this natively… That must suck for their marketing team.

Which download option do you recommend? I tried Fedora 18 with Gnome and it was a disaster. I couldn't find how to create a new file (you know, right click -> new file, like in every OS ever), so I rage quit.

https://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options

You could open terminal, and "touch file". Now saying that, XFCE seems to be favorite for people who don't like GNOME or KDE.

Doesn't work for putting files on the desktop, the ~/Desktop folder doesn't have it's contents displayed on the desktop for some reason. Assuming a gnome3 thing...?

Yes. Icons on the desktop? You must be crazy! (there was an option in the config tool to restore them; not sure if it still works)

I've been using the KDE spin for ages and couldn't be happier with it! It's reasonably fast, highly customizable and gets out of my way.

I rage quit at the installer. Anaconda needed an update, but whoa buddy, not THAT.

Yep. It's hardly usable (e.g. Done button at the top, keeping finger crossed when doing partitioning thanks to the confusing UI, asking to select the tiny city where I am on a world map...)

I've been using Fedora since... RedHat 4.2. The drop that filled the glass last week (using a nightly compose) was the new gnome3 behavior when coming back from turned off monitor to save power. Even though I disabled lock/screen saver/password, rather than just letting me continue where I was now I have to "slide" with my mouse the screen.

So I switched to Ubuntu. My first ever Ubuntu install. When asking about local time, it recognized the city where I was. Because, gee, I'm connected to the network. I learned how to use apt* stuff instead of yum&rpm, and I don't miss Fedora.

So basically they're just including existing open source software?

You make it sound so easy!

Pfft all this 'computer' does is take my inputs and give me some outputs. Call me when you have something interesting

If I'm not mistaken, that's mostly what Linux distributions do: package existing software and make sure software packages play well with each other.

Yeah, not sure why this is getting upvoted. They are just having the standard open source 3D printing apps in the repos, nothing else :s

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