Fedora Workstation 22 Is Looking Great, Running Fantastic

[Doodzor]

Fedora has been on my main desktop since F20 along with GNOME 3
I had tried Fedora a few times before F20 and had stability/quality issues that really put me off, but I've always liked Fedora's goals. GNOME 3.8 was also the first usable release in my opinion, too. While GNOME 3 is really nice today, it was quite broken when it was first released.

As for openSUSE, I really wanted to switch to Tumbleweed after it recently became what was once Factory, but after looking through some of its packages I decided it was a bit too outdated in some parts for a rolling release and that I would wait until more maintainers started working on Tumbleweed. This has probably changed greatly since then.

I've always thought about trying tumbleweed but the advantages always seemed too small compared to the potential problems, with Nvidia drivers in particular.

[timex]

for those having the "Oh no" issue try this, update your processor microcode, boot using a single monitor, and with no periferals attached (no wacom no nothing just use mouse + keyboard)

You was right, the problem was my Wacom connected. I just unpluged it and now works perfectly

[Guest]

So even though F22 is planned to release later this month; can I run the latest image of it now and just update packages that come out on release?

I'm looking to wipe my machine in the near future, and can't wait until later this month, and really want to use Fedora

[Creak]

I've always thought about trying tumbleweed but the advantages always seemed too small compared to the potential problems, with Nvidia drivers in particular.

I actually tried a few rolling releases distributions for the past two years (Arch Linux, Tumbleweed and Manjaro Gnome). And after this lonnnng journey, I think I'm over with rolling releases. My conclusion is that it is just not stable enough. And now, most of the new stuff I wanted two years ago (mainly GNOME 3 and the latest mesa drivers) are in the more "regular" distros.

I was a huge fan of Debian, but clearly the distribution is already too old (for desktop use) even though it just got out! I also liked the simplicity of Ubuntu, before they went berserk and started to code everything from scratch, so it's a no-go for me. My experience with openSuse was not the best one ever, especially the package system which might be one of the worst I've ever used (it's pretty much like Windows, but instead of having to find the right websites to download your applications from, you have to find the right repo *and* the right repo version... it's a mess, and it's even worse with the Factory/Tumbleweed transition going on).

So, in the end, Fedora seems to be the most reliable desktop distribution out there. I'll be glad to test it as soon as it is released!

I've already tested it in VM and I was already impressed by the simplicity of the installator, the environment is pretty smooth, except that it is through a VM, so it is a big sluggish and I can't test it directly on the metal. But I'm eager to test that!