I like Fedora. On my two primary machines, one is running Xubuntu 16.04, and the other Fedora 28 with default GNOME. I'll upgrade the Ubuntu machine once ROCm 1.9 is out (??) and you can directly upgrade 16.04 -> 18.04 (tomorrow?).
Before Fedora 28 I had Arch with LXDE. I really liked that. The computer was incompatibly old, so to upgrade it I replaced the entire thing.
I still had the USB with Arch, so started installing it. But then I accidentally mounted a partition I set as UEFI boot as an ntfs, so I'd have to start over.
Figured screw it, I want to get started with the new machine, let me just use Manjaro.
Froze as soon as it booted into the live environment, which you have to do to use the graphical installer.
Okay, Manjaro architect.
Ran into a bunch of errors. Googling, I saw loads of hits for similar flavors of errors. Many since were fixed, but they were all subtly different. Didn't feel like wading through an avalanche, but I wanted a computer with up to date software, preferably rolling release.
While not rolling (Rawhide is too unstable for me) Fedora was close enough.
Got through the graphical installation, rebooted, logged in, and it froze. Sorta saw that coming, given Manjaro. So, rebooted again, ctrl+alt+f2, login to console, dnf update (getting the latest linux kernel), reboot, login and everything is fine. No problems since then.
I'm not nit picky. I'd never have noticed most of the complaints most people have. Still don't.
I don't mean that judgmentally, we need you guys to create truly polished products.
That said, my experience with Fedora 28 has been great so far.
Works well, easily gives me the latest gcc ( which generates much better code for some problems, eg nearly 6/10 [or 7/11 for avx512] instructions are vfmadd for a basic matmul vs like 1/8 for earlier versions ), so it took little setup beyond installing the software I have to install under any distro (Julia, Atom/VSCode, etc).
GNOME is nice. Makes it easy to switch windows with a flick of a trackball if I happen to have a hand off the keyboard.
Before Fedora 28 I had Arch with LXDE. I really liked that. The computer was incompatibly old, so to upgrade it I replaced the entire thing.
I still had the USB with Arch, so started installing it. But then I accidentally mounted a partition I set as UEFI boot as an ntfs, so I'd have to start over.
Figured screw it, I want to get started with the new machine, let me just use Manjaro.
Froze as soon as it booted into the live environment, which you have to do to use the graphical installer.
Okay, Manjaro architect.
Ran into a bunch of errors. Googling, I saw loads of hits for similar flavors of errors. Many since were fixed, but they were all subtly different. Didn't feel like wading through an avalanche, but I wanted a computer with up to date software, preferably rolling release.
While not rolling (Rawhide is too unstable for me) Fedora was close enough.
Got through the graphical installation, rebooted, logged in, and it froze. Sorta saw that coming, given Manjaro. So, rebooted again, ctrl+alt+f2, login to console, dnf update (getting the latest linux kernel), reboot, login and everything is fine. No problems since then.
I'm not nit picky. I'd never have noticed most of the complaints most people have. Still don't.
I don't mean that judgmentally, we need you guys to create truly polished products.
That said, my experience with Fedora 28 has been great so far.
Works well, easily gives me the latest gcc ( which generates much better code for some problems, eg nearly 6/10 [or 7/11 for avx512] instructions are vfmadd for a basic matmul vs like 1/8 for earlier versions ), so it took little setup beyond installing the software I have to install under any distro (Julia, Atom/VSCode, etc).
GNOME is nice. Makes it easy to switch windows with a flick of a trackball if I happen to have a hand off the keyboard.
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