Dangerous opinion, I’ve recently moved to Fedora after Ubuntu and after customising it on the GNOME desktop, it’s literally Ubuntu (But better) in every way except no snaps.

Personally as someone who got the ground running using Ubuntu as my 1st Linux distro, fedora is a comfortable transfer and I really like their spins.

Sure DNF can be slow but you can fix that and sure redhat can be a little… difficult with their decisions.

What do you think of Fedora? So far I enjoy the stability combined with near-arch levels of getting new updates!

  • MrSoup
    212·
    2 months ago

    Are you using Fedora Workstation? Have you installed “additional” multimedia codecs?

    The issue with Fedora is that because of being backed by RedHat, they fear using some software for their licensing. So, to use features of your GPU you paid for, you need to install codecs from RPM Fusion.
    This can be an hussle when big version updates of Fedora comes and you need to wait for RPM Fusion repo to catch up.

    • mortalic@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 months ago

      I’ve just started using Fedora recently and have been pretty impressed but I also ran into some of these annoying issues to start with. I wrote a super quick and dirty first run script to automate the things I use but maybe others will find it useful. I just added it to my GitHub if anyone wants to use it as well. I am not responsible if it wrecks your system.

      • MrSoup
        2·
        2 months ago

        I’ve been thinking of making one, thank you for beating me on time. I’ll bookmark it.

        • mortalic@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 months ago

          Of course hope it’s helpful. Feel free to open a pull request if you want to make any changes or add something

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Yeah… I’m actually thinking of switching to Debian. Fedora’s very nice, but the licensing idiosyncrasies and linkages to RedHat kinda annoy me.

      Also: I admit I’m lazy, and the Debian-flavored community is somewhat more pervasive and a tad easier to look things up for, simply because Ububtu is Debian flavored, and Ubuntu is one of the more prevalent distros (even if it is kinda “easy mode”).

      • MrSoup
        1·
        2 months ago

        I moved from Debian mainly because I kept breaking apt somehow. But I was saw people recommending it for desktop use, so maybe it got improved.

        Edit: typo

        • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Yeah this’d mainly be for my personal dev laptop. I’ve got a spare machine I might throw it on to test drive for a bit before I commit to migrating my system again, since I just did that for F40 (upgraded from Ubuntu LTS - again, lazy, but I did get fed up with snaps which is what led me to switch to fedora in the first place)

    • JJLinux@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 months ago

      Could be I’m just lucky, but I upgraded Fedora desktop to 40 while still in beta, and never had any issues with codecs. As a matter of fact, I in every install I immediately install all codecs, as well as MS fonts, never had a single issue.

    • fossphi@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Haven’t used Fedora in a while but I heard that this was done automatically now. Is that not the case?