Fedora Linux

[Ringel05]

I've used Linux Mint for years but lately I decided I really like the Gnome 3 shell. So not that long ago I switched over to Ubuntu (my first Linux love) but over the last week started having freezing problems. I would have to do a hard shutdown then reboot. Instead of combing through all the extensions and load testing the NVIDIA I ordered a MSI Radeon RX 580 (new for under $150).
I had in the past tried Fedora but there were some minor aspects of it I didn't like back then even though I liked the distro as a whole. This time I downloaded and set up the Fedora Media Writer on a flash drive and loaded it on my Linux machine. Currently it's purring along like a kitten and the Radeon just arrived and was installed in place of the NVIDIA card. Didn't have to install drivers as the Radeon drivers come preloaded on Fedora.
The NVIDIA card is a GTX 770 which is a great budget GPU but the Radeon runs about 30% faster especially with an AMD processor.
BTW Valve is releasing SteamOS 3.0 soon but for now only on non Steam handhelds. Hopefully they'll eventually make versions for PCs. In the meantime Linux gaming is getting bigger as is the Linux market share. Not a huge jump but an increase that may be tied to Win 10's end of life and Microsoft commercializing almost every aspect of their OS.

 

[jotathought]

I originally use Red Hat Linux, for many of the business needs our organization needed: Firewall, faxing capabilities, email capabilities and file storage. Then I moved to Ubuntu for more personal use, and enjoyed the UI aspects, as well as being able to do the lower level actions within the operating system.

Don't use it much now, and had a great experience learning and using Linux in a business and personal setting.

 

[Ringel05]

I originally use Red Hat Linux, for many of the business needs our organization needed: Firewall, faxing capabilities, email capabilities and file storage. Then I moved to Ubuntu for more personal use, and enjoyed the UI aspects, as well as being able to do the lower level actions within the operating system.

Don't use it much now, and had a great experience learning and using Linux in a business and personal setting.

Fedora has become much more user friendly, not as much as Ubuntu and Linux Mint but close. Installing RPM Fusion takes care of all potential codec problems not to mention Fedora now uses Flatpak. My issue with the current version of Mint is it doesn't play well with bluetooth. At least not on my machine and I have a few bluetooth accessories.

 

[Dante]

and yet you tow hang out here? Curious.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

I originally use Red Hat Linux, for many of the business needs our organization needed: Firewall, faxing capabilities, email capabilities and file storage. Then I moved to Ubuntu for more personal use, and enjoyed the UI aspects, as well as being able to do the lower level actions within the operating system.

Don't use it much now, and had a great experience learning and using Linux in a business and personal setting.

Basically my identical story.
In the late-late 90s and early 2000s - all of our email/firewall/file servers were RH Linux, with a couple HP-UX application servers.

 

[Ringel05]

Fedora was a fun experiment but it's over and I'm back to using Mint. Still too much using terminal for certain things to work. I'm older, lazier and don't want to be bothered. Besides no matter what I did it would not see flash drives. Ended up burning Mint ISO on a DVD and installing mint that way....... I forgot just how agonizingly slow that was........

 

[Captain Caveman]

Fedora was a fun experiment but it's over and I'm back to using Mint. Still too much using terminal for certain things to work. I'm older, lazier and don't want to be bothered. Besides no matter what I did it would not see flash drives. Ended up burning Mint ISO on a DVD and installing mint that way....... I forgot just how agonizingly slow that was........

As time passes, Windows gets slower and slower. Does Linux suffer a similar problem? I've been considering on and off for a while to get shot of Windows.

 

[Ringel05]

As time passes, Windows gets slower and slower. Does Linux suffer a similar problem? I've been considering on and off for a while to get shot of Windows.

Over time all operating systems get slower and slower if you don't clean out their caches from time to time. As for Linux getting slower and slower I wouldn't know, I do a clean install about once a year, reinstall the OS from scratch. Of course I do that with Windows and Mac also. I keep nothing important on any of my computers.

 

[Ringel05]

Over time all operating systems get slower and slower if you don't clean out their caches from time to time. As for Linux getting slower and slower I wouldn't know, I do a clean install about once a year, reinstall the OS from scratch. Of course I do that with Windows and Mac also. I keep nothing important on any of my computers.

Here's a link to help make your computer fast again without doing a clean install.

14 Tips to Speed Up a Slow Computer

 

[The Duke]

Here's a link to help make your computer fast again without doing a clean install.

14 Tips to Speed Up a Slow Computer

Bah, wipe it and fresh install. Fedora had some kind of IRQ conflict/memory leak with the platform I'm using.

 

[Ringel05]

Fedora 41 recently came out so I ran it live and I'm thoroughly impressed. All of the problems I was experiencing with Fedora 40 are gone. I went ahead and installed it and no issues have cropped up. It's the Gnome 3 desktop so I installed Extensions Manager and activated Dash to Dock so now my bottom dock is always visible. It hides itself normally, I don't like that. Of course being Gnome 3 it's not as customizable as Mint's Cinnamon desktop or KDE but I'm good with that. It's Wayland, no more XOrg and DNF5 makes downloads smaller and faster. DNF has always been notoriously slow in the past.
Yes I had to install RPM Fusion via Terminal but that was simply follow the instructions then copy and paste.