Originally posted by phoenk
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As for specific issues, 1 major one and 1 that just should not exist in 2017. I'll start with installing the Nvidia drivers, what a pain in the ass!. I have a Haswell based Xeon, 16GB DDR3, and a GTX 1050 2GB, nothing crazy. In theory, installing the Nvidia drivers on Fedora should be easy, launch the Gnome software center, search for key word Nvidia and you should get a list of a bunch of Nvidia related stuff, including the drivers. Well, I can tell you that all I kept getting was a "nothing found" message when I searched for Nvidia, even after I tried adding various repos. In the end I had to install the drivers the old fashioned way, yes it can be done but in the final months of 2017, when distros like Ubuntu, OpenSuse and Manjaro have simple automated ways to install the proprietary drivers, it reall makes Fedora look outdated.
I could have lived with that, but this next one is a deal breaker and would be for everyone; I have an external drive that is encrypted, on every other distro I have tried when I try to mount it I am asked for the pass-phrase, I supply it and it's mounted, with Fedora 27, it would fail to mount it giving me a weird message about the pass-phrase (I forget the exact language). I tried numerous times, thinking maybe I mistyped the phrase, I even considered that perhaps the drive had been corrupted but ever single other distro I tried I was able to mount it decrypted, even from live-usb but for some reason Fedora 27 would refuse to open it.
that effectively makes Fedora 27 worthless for me.
As for the people bashing Ubuntu, I know it's fashionable to hate on the successful, but Ubuntu really does offer a superior experience. Things work out of the box with a minimum of fuss, graphics drivers are a piece of cake to get working, the installer offers to download and install 3rd party drivers, codecs and updates during the install, it's slick, fast, tones of documentation on their website.
I do like what Solus is doing, with their focus on gaming, definitely a distro to keep an eye on, I plan on revisiting it if they ever release an official build with Mate.
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