Heard about the new release, how is it? Is it stable? Is it botnet?
How is Fedora 30 these days?
Jonathan Bailey
Kevin Howard
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Fedora, is in fact, IBM/Fedora, or as I've recently taken to calling it, IBM plus Fedora. Fedora is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning IBM system made useful by the IBM branding, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
David Lee
Did the Fedora project changed after IBM happend? I have no problem with "Big Linux"
Parker Myers
No. IBM also said that they would not change redHat.
> stable
Pretty much yes, even though it is kinda rolling release
> botnet
No. It's fully free software (except some drivers)
Connor Ward
It's not rolling. It's just following upstream faster than most other non-rolling distros. Rawhide is the rolling release variation, but it's very unstable, as it's only intended as a testing platform.
Lincoln Morales
Wait about half year it will stable as like redhat
Owen Cox
>Did the Fedora project changed after IBM happend? I have no problem with "Big Linux"
reddit.com
He answers such questions in that IAMA thread.
It's been my daily driver for several years and was the distro that made me stop distro hopping. If something drastically changes due to the IBM aquisition, I'll go back to Gentoo.
Angel Reed
That's why I wrote 'kinda rolling release'.
Josiah Roberts
Being up-to-date does not make it "kinda rolling release".
Logan Anderson
where is CentOS 8? i might go with that instead of upgrading to 30
Carter Reyes
It usually comes out a couple months after the Redhat release. You can see their progress here.
Angel Reyes
it just works unlike piece of shit solus(screen tears, japanese input doesn't work)
Charles Stewart
How is the software variety? I know about RPM Fusion but is it even comparable to something like the AUR?
Oliver Torres
Not that good, even with RPM Fusion. I wouldn't call the ability to compile from source essential for using Fedora, but it definitely helps.
Liam Rivera
>MUH AUR
ITS JUST A FUCKING GITHUB SCRIPT MOST OF THE TIME
Owen Long
Right?
Eli Richardson
Just wanted to compare.
I know about the meme that fedora users are beta testers for RHEL, is it just a meme?
Hudson Roberts
In the same way OpenSUSE users are the beta testers for SLES
Oliver Long
Could you explain that a little? I never really got the meme. Like SuSE wants to test new technology, lets throw it into OpenSUSE and lets so how it is and then implement it into SLES?
Gavin Perry
Exactly.
William Bell
one of the better ones out there, probably because its a corporate backed distro with paid devs
Evan Watson
I dont see it as a totally bad thing. If what they try to implement is good shit you can use this shit earlier and when it gets removed again. Àre there any examples of bad "beta tests" done by Red Hat?
Bentley Davis
The beta tester thing is a meme. It's like saying Debian is beta testing for Ubuntu. It's not, it's just upstream.
Logan Rivera
How is Gnome? Heard its pretty nice on Fedora. Never tried it.
Jose Jackson
Gnome on Fedora is good, bit it's very vanilla. So, just be ready for that.
Jacob Thompson
Fedora is a bleeding edge distro. It's the stomping ground for new open source shit. Think PulseAudio, systemd, new DEs and etc.
The difference being there are testing repos, so you have a pretty decent stable Fedora install for those who need to get shit done and a borderline usable version for those who like to do dev testing in the spare time for free.
Personally, I've been using Fedora for years. My current destop install has been sysupgraded from F26 to F30 with minimal tinkering or issues over the years. I've hard more troubles with Linux Mint or Ubuntu.
If IBM decided one day to fuck Fedora up, I wouldn't know what to use anymore.
Adam Flores
its great, i use it without extensions because its enough but you can always mod the hell out of it for this reason: try this too, it may help: copr.fedorainfracloud.org
if you really want it to be fast you can disable animations and then it feels like a fresh i3 arch install
Daniel Morgan
kek
Nathan Cooper
Fedora tries to keep things close to upstream. GNOME included. That's why it works damn well compared to other distros, which try to "fix" it with custom patches and preinstalled extensions.
However, GNOME is different from your standard DE and not necessarily for everyone. If you don't like GNOME in general you can try one of the spins. Fedora Xfce is probably the best one of the bunch. Cinnamon, LXDE and LXQt also have quite good spins. The KDE spin is unfortunately not good.
Aiden Moore
If you're going to use Fedora, choose Deepin when you install it.
Evan Ward
I can never understand why people blur out their usernames/hostnames
Luke Ward
getting doxxed sucks. the less the public internet knows about you, the better off you are.
Joshua Long
Don't you put your address as your hostname and your penis size aa your username?