Fedora

Reader supplied reviews for Fedora Average rating 8.3 from 406 review(s) Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. 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: -- rawhide424140393837363534333231302928272625242322212019181716151413121110987654321 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: 42 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-06-16 Votes: 7 Fedora 42 KDE Plasma Edition. This is the most modern and highest quality distro I have come across. I am in the process of switching all my computers to this distro. I can see the effect that RHEL has on it's upstream Fedora with the attention to security and overall quality. Despite the packages in fedora being very fresh, I rarely ever come across a bug, and I have never seen a critical bug. I love that I can get the package freshness of Arch, but with the stability and quality of a properly managed distro. My #2 distro is OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, and my #3 is a tie between Debian testing, Kubuntu, and Siduction. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 42 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-06-15 Votes: 1 I've been using Fedora Kinoite (42) for a few weeks now and I'm very impressed. Everything is well configured, and with the default settings of the latest version of KDE, you can get started right away - or customize it to your liking. All the hardware works right out of the box. I'm a bit surprised by the almost daily updates, which I didn't expect on an Atom system. However, there is one problem with Fedora Kinoite: the system sound (HDA Intel PCH) suddenly halves in sound and volume. Everything sounds flat. There is no help in sight, as most research on the subject comes up empty - or there is none (Kinoite). When will the distros finally get the sound problem under control? Whether you use Debian, Arch or their variants, the result is always the same disappointment. Speakers at half volume, headphones at full volume. This never happened on the same PC under Windows - always full volume. Therefore only 9 points. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 42 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-06-09 Votes: 5 New to Linux for about three months. No problems with the install. Still on a learning curve. Reading the documentation helps and seeing Scientific Fedora flavor with KDE desktop and learning. Reading about the command line but not seeking it out and happy with gui of version 42. Installed on an old Win 8.1 Accer Celeron 4Gb unit where the old hd is a slowdown, and on a Dell AMD 5 8Gb unit, ssd, and of course better. Before the cutover from win-11 bought a new HP 16 Gb with an NPU to see what it is,and keeping it for now on Win 11 waiting for AMD kernel stability for the NPU to be worked out problem free before considering a cutover there. Not a coder, but wondering eventually if coding and code AI can be played with. Mostly doing browsing now. Almost exclusively. On the installs, audio works on both conversions. Have not tested or used Bluetooth. Worked with Rufus and Ubuntu and Lubuntu usb installs, okay, but Fedora is for now the choice, and likely to stay so. Giving it 9 because it is still in learning mode but the reviews seem 9 or 10 unless things glitched somehow. I picked Scientific Fedora flavor and like the KDE desktop as intuitive to a Win-11 user. Used the Fedora Media Installer to download an ISO and get both units working from that USB. Not too much more to say than so far so good, and a cleaner interface than what Windows has become. I will be a true Linux convert when I get the new HP unit cut over and play with it on Hugging Face stuff for local unit AI experimenting. With browser and addon similarity over Win-11 and Fedora, there is really no big difference beyond the aggressive marketing of Copilot by MS which was a major factor in trying Linux. Learning is at a point where mistakes might make a clean Fedora reinstall a good idea, mistakes can be made, but Fedora gives the confidence that a reinstall will only be easy and better. Clearly not a distro hopper, but looking so far at versions that will stay in business, and gnome and KDE, with KDE fine enough. As advice for any novice testing a change, Windows recovery media should be made and tested. The new unit, while still on its Costco exchange window had the OS cleanly reinstalled from a recovery USB, as a concept test during the free exchange window, while recovery on the years-old Dell glitched - which cemented the Fedora commitment. The belief is MS makes recovery easy enough with the MS license code likely in firmware, but it was not worth the time to experiment since Fedora on the Dell was intended. Speccy on Windows was a help, yet I have not checked whether it is available for Linux. It does give useful system info detail to review and rely upon. All for now, although a years-into-it follow-up review might be helpful to people. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 406 reader reviews of Fedora...