Fedora

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Reader supplied reviews for Fedora Average rating 8.2 from 267 review(s) What are your thoughts on Fedora? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- rawhide3837363534333231302928272625242322212019181716151413121110987654321 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 38 Rating: 1 Date: 2023-08-20 Votes: 0 Red Hat 9 was our daily driver at the university back in the days, so I naturally come back to Fedora once in a while and... always get disappointed, removing it after a couple of weeks if not days. This time with Fedora 38, I couldn't even get it to start. The installation went fine on my setup (separate boot, system on lvm-on-luks), the boot loader finds the kernel, and from there nothing works. Fedora is not asking for the luks password but I got no error message about the root partition not being found, so I guess it crashed very early. No busybox, no initramfs login, just a couple of messages that make no sense and a "press enter to reboot". No way to fix it and no clue about what went wrong. Bricked to the bones. Also, Fedora left some apple garbage files on the root of my ESP. Why? I'm not even using a Mac. I have no doubt this distro works out of the box for many people, but such problems often show up with Fedora. This is not a distro made for people. This is Red Hat's playground where unpaid employees (us) waste their time beta-testing things for them. I've waited for 20 years for Fedora to become something, to care about its users, to mature a non-toxic community. I now give up. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 38 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-08-04 Votes: 18 I've been with fedora with gnome for a few years now. I actually forgot I was using it. All updates flawless. I update once a week or two weeks. And to think I used to jump around distributions. My laptop is 11 years old! It moves lightly, responsively, without heating. I don't play games, I use only the Internet, mail, gimp and website. I can't say anything bad about the fedora, just a revelation. Previously I used debian, mint, manjaro, ubuntu and a few more but finally settled on fedora permanently and I'm not complaining. The printer is also trouble-free hp laserjet p1102w. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 38 Rating: 6 Date: 2023-08-04 Votes: 1 It was just sort of buggy for me with things like Control center launching then instantly crashing. Gnome control crashing when I was not using PC. I get its a cutting edge sort of distribution but I have also read that it was pretty stable which has not been my experience using what I consider rather vanilla type hardware that was easily detected and showed no signs of issues. That just leads me to assume the OS is just unstable which is disappointing. I was hoping that Fedora would be a keeper in terms of running a Linux operating system. But Its back to trying some other distro's to find that one that holds promise of uneventful computing. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 267 reader reviews of Fedora...