Fedora

Reader supplied reviews for Fedora Average rating 8.3 from 352 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: -- rawhide4140393837363534333231302928272625242322212019181716151413121110987654321 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: 41 Rating: 5 Date: 2024-11-23 Votes: 1 I was excited about Fedora 41. Kinoite installed with ease and I loved the concept of an immutable distribution. All worked well for a month and I thought I had finally found a stable, reliable, favor of Red Hat for my Dell laptop. Then things started to go wrong. Fedora failed to run my HP printer, even though it could connect to, and recognize the printer. No problem. I don't do much printing anyway, Then Firefox stopped connecting to the internet. So I started using Chrome. Then Chrome began only connecting the internet sporadically, and finally not at all. Gone are the days when I would spend hours working on correcting problems with a linux distro I'm much older now and don't want to spend the time, So I installed Ubuntu Mate, and everything works fine, So long Fedora. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 41 Rating: 9 Date: 2024-11-20 Votes: 8 I am truly excited after switching from Debian Bookworm to Fedora 41 as my daily driver desktop OS. I have been in the Debian/Ubuntu world since I switched from Red Hat 9, when they first went to the Fedora/Red Hat relationship. I gave up on Ubuntu when they started forcing snap packages (among other issues) and switched to Debian stable for a few years, but I don't like the idea of waiting forever for current software/firmware. I have been monitoring Fedora for a few years now, contemplating the switch, and I must say that with Fedora 41 push came to shove. Performance is snappy, the software/firmware is very up to date (almost cutting edge), and for the most part, everything just works. My only caveat is no X11 is included in the initial install (it can still be downloaded and installed from the repositories), so if you want a remote desktop connection you are SOL unless you revert to X11. I would be happy if someone could please correct me if I'm wrong. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 41 Rating: 9 Date: 2024-11-16 Votes: 8 Fedora has made some marked improvements since the last time I used it, some years back. Nvidia installation is quite straight forward now. I like the 8GB default swap allocates (debian only does 1 GB). I also like, the feature when you type an app in terminal, which may not be available, it goes and searches for the app and return with a request to install the app. This is feature is very nice. For e.g. I typed cmatrix in terminal which was not installed previously, and it automatically searched, installed and even ran the app. Anaconda installer is a bit counter intuitive to understand and may not be the best for noobs especially when they dual boot, but its not that hard. I was able to trouble shoot without reading a doc, and I guess they going to update anaconda soon with a web version. All in all I think this is using as a daily driver. Fedora is an un opinionated. I used to love Ubuntu (still do) but with everything moving to snaps I find it a bit constraining for daily use especially when snap can run a jobs while you are running something else. Debian is equally good but software updates are slow, which may be a good thing for servers but for desktops there is no risk using cutting edge Distros. For eg. fastfetch is not available in debian repo Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 352 reader reviews of Fedora...