Fedora

Reader supplied reviews for Fedora Average rating 8.2 from 273 review(s) Please selecting 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: -- 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: 9 Date: 2023-09-30 Votes: 0 Fedora 38 has worked like a charm on several architectures I own...ie Macs to mini-PCs. I recently installed a variant -, Fedora MATE-Compiz simply because the compositing features of the desktop cube work for me personally in the way of application switching.( Bear in mind that some distros have dropped or are in the process of dropping support for Compiz). I started using Linux over twenty-five years ago in the form of Redhat 9....and things have gone full circle,,,after the superb experiences with Mint, Ubuntu, SuSE,PC-BSD and many other worthy Open-Source projects. Fedora is great starting point for those who want to use a stable Linux for general purposes and perhaps beyond that. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 38 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-09-29 Votes: 0 Looking for an OS that you can install and use and not have to fiddle with it in order to get a complete OS desktop experience? Fedora is a great choice. If you just want to install an OS and get on with your day instead of tinkering and wasting days on "system mechanic" nonsense, this is the OS to go for. It's up to date, reliable and has very solid software selection/repos. Fedora uses the latest in kernel versions and packages and so it offers a very up to speed software ecosystem. Honestly I'm not sure what else one would want from a Linux distro, Fedora pretty much checks all the boxes. Not everyone want's to edit config files and customise things in order to get a standard desktop experience. Not everyone has time for this kind of thing. Most people just want to get things done and want the OS to stay out of their way and work for them and not against them. So yeah if you value your time Fedora is an excellent pick. The only thing that would be nice to see is a full-on rolling release from Fedora for those who like this sort of thing. Currently the versions change every 6 months and although updating is straight forward it would be even better of we just had a pick at a rolling release vs the 6 month release cycle version. It "kind of" is due to the ease of upgrades but it's not exactly a rolling release model if you really want to call it one. Other than that I can't really complain about anything here. Give it a shot and use it for 6 months and for your own opinion, I don't imagine you will encounter any major drawbacks. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 38 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-09-15 Votes: 0 XFCE spin (not the ugly and un-usable Gnome4 version). Zero problems to report. XFCE is a simple, usable desktop. Python3 is a fantastic programming environment. gcc is a fantastic propgramming tool (and clang is also pretty good). ssh allows me to manage other F38 machines (either on the LAN, or across internet connections). People complain about X-Windows, but it works fine locally and across the internet (see previous line). LibreOffice works fine, both with native file formats, but also with RTF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX. I'm a fan of Chromium....no complaints. A couple of older Windows programs are running perfectly using WINE. Nothing - nothing at all - to complain about!! Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 273 reader reviews of Fedora...