Fedora Linux 40

https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-40/

70 7 2 years ago

I used Fedora Linux from 28 until I got a M1 MacBook 3 years ago. I think I'll use this occasion to seriously try out Fedora Asahi Remix!

4878241143• 2 years ago

Good job to everyone involved.

I started out on Fedora Core 3.

It's great to see so much progress over this time and I sincerely appreciate all the effort it takes to provide me with such a polished free OS.

pixxel• 2 years ago

Thank you everyone involved.

I’ve got Fedora running on a 2013 MacBook Air (midrange). Perfect as a second screen to watch videos or couch surf.

butz• 2 years ago

After several years of upgrading same Workstation installation, I will be switching to KDE Plasma "spin". Although GNOME 46 terminal performance improvements sounds tempting.

jauntywundrkind• 2 years ago

Doing pretty good on Sway but it's obviously not for everyone. I keep thinking of trying to get into a more conventional desktop to have the experience & KDE has been very high on the list; seemed sensible straight, straightforward, and customizable, groovy.

There's a bunch of security issues that got raised in https://security.opensuse.org/2024/04/02/kde6-dbus-polkit.ht... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39968384, and thankfully it sounds like many of them will be getting fixed. But one takeaway that is seared into my soul is that KDE is more-or-less tunneling their own protocols over DBus. And that's just so radically uncool, so non-cooperative/non-participatory/non-FreeDesktop thing to do. The other small shocks I can get over/will be improved, but it's really wild to me that the normal means of controlling & talking to software just doesn't work like it should on KDE.

I'd assumed KDE had done the right thing at some point, after walking away from their pretty capable/interesting DCOP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_communication_protocol machine-interfaces. It seems like a really great project, really nice & direct UI, and was top of my list to try out. But after seeing the DBus spec roundly ignored & custom encoded data being sent around, I see KDE as an island unto itself that I have little desire to swim to. I can't imagine leaving the FreeDesktop archipelago.

amlib• 2 years ago

GNOME 46 also brought massive improvements to Nautilus (the file browser) performance. It used to feel a bit laggy even when navigating between small directories but now it feels snappier and a big directory full of thumbnails for photos and videos loads much quicker and things don't seem to jump around while loading. It also loaded a directory with 40k entries in less than a second. Pretty decent I would say.

ossusermivami• 2 years ago

I like Fedora but I only wish it was supporting rpi5 without any kernel hacks..

currently using raspbian with nix on top of it, it's not bad but rather have something more seamless

Fedora Linux 40

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