How has your experience been with Fedora? Any interesting stories or challenges?

@juliaifrank

Ай бұрын

@ARCx9 Anything in particular that’s bothering you? And what is your preferred Linux distro?

@magday2974

Ай бұрын

On Fedora 40 Kde day one. Everything just works!

@juliaifrank

Ай бұрын

Nice! My son just changed to this distro yesterday:) My uni workstation VM is currently running Fedora Scientific Lab (atop of the KDE as well).

@antonfrank3722

Ай бұрын

@@juliaifrankActually mother, I’ve been using it since the Fedora 40 release, but made it my main workstation yesterday 🤓

@trajectoryunown

Ай бұрын

Fedora is one of the best distros out today. The dev team's dedication to keeping Fedora FOSS regardless of upstream developments is very reassuring. Fedora is 2 of the 3 top distros I currently recommend to anyone new to Linux. (Because Nobara is based on Fedora.) The other is Garuda Linux, which is actually my number 1 pick.

To me as a desktop Linux user, Fedora seems to basically be one of the most solid distributions out there! I can easily recommend it to all tech-savvy people coming to Linux. Though personally I also like the DIY or otherwise experimental distros - like Arch, Alpine (postmarketOS) or Guix.

Fedora as a desktop OS is solid,never had a problem with it myself and upgrading every six months is simple to do and painless.

Great video! I've been an off and on Fedora user since its inception. Thanks for the explanation of CentOS Stream as well. It would good to include AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux in future discussions.

@juliaifrank

Ай бұрын

Thank you! ) Especially for the suggestion on the next Linux discussion. Believe it or not, I was actually planning to talk about AlmaLinux, since the HPC cluster I am using for my research computations transitioned to AlmaLinux from CentOS Linux a couple of weeks ago:)

Fedora was my entry into Linux (after a failed attempt at installing slackware) around 20 years ago. Then came Ubuntu, later Arch Linux and many in between, but a couple of years back now I rediscovered Fedora, and loved it. Recently started playing around with Fedora Coreos for my homelab.

@juliaifrank

Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing! My first Linux distro was Ubuntu. Then I moved to Fedora about 2 years ago.

I started with Suse in 1996, switched to Ubuntu in 2002. Now I run Debian where I need stability primarily and Fedora (with KDE) on everything else. It is awesome.

I love the posters! :)

@juliaifrank

Ай бұрын

And so do I ! :)

Fedora is not testing ground. It is fast release distro focused on current stable version of all software involved. It does not include experimental versions of software. Centos Stream will have every release as for 9.0 to 9.1 leading ahead before it happens to Redhat. But packages are still very old co, pared to Fedora and are focused on bug fixes. Both red hat and centos stream get high security fixes asap, while non critical security fixes might go asap in centos and on on next 9.x in red hat. Look in packages in the repos. It is very easy to understand it just by seeing the version changes in them.

Fedora + Silverblue + Ublue is absolutely amazing.

Very clear presentation. May suggest Fedora 40 as a daily driver? It is on two notebook PCs and my desktop PC with a Hyprland environment. I do have Budgie and Gnome available at logon, but Hyprland is where I live. Fedora is a winner.

Fedora is King. the only issue they have is their codecs are a hassle to isntall, but Nobara & Bazzite take care of that if you want your OS for something specific like Video Editing or gaming.

Thanks for the update

Hey, can you make a video about the Wayland Xorg battle that has been going on.

@juliaifrank

27 күн бұрын

Yes! Thanks for the idea. I was just thinking what video to make next.

@RedHatEnterpriseLinux

23 күн бұрын

Wayland has been under way for some time as a project started by Red Hat engineers to replace our use of Xorg. We originally switched to Xorg in Red Hat Linux 7.0 from XFree86. No you’re reading that correct, Red Hat Linux, not Red Hat Enterprise Linux. (This was 2001.) Unfortunately, the community for Xorg is very small, the last full release was in 2012. So Red Hatters have been dutifully patching and working on that final 2012 full release and releasing updated modules and the like for it over the last 10+ years. So to recap, not a ton of development on Xorg since 2012, however Wayland does have a pretty active community (not to brag, but largely due to Red Hat’s engineers). Wayland has been the default for the last few releases of Fedora and is the default for RHEL9. Xorg is on the list of deprecated packages for RHEL, so I wouldn’t expect to see it in RHEL10 when it GAs in mid-2025. Like systemd, you’ll notice that other distros are now defaulting to Wayland as well, you’re welcome 😂

@juliaifrank

18 күн бұрын

Wow, thanks for dropping by and sharing all this info! It’s great to hear directly from the source about the developments with Wayland and Xorg. Would it be okay if I mentioned your comment in my next video about Wayland and Xorg? I think it would really help get this information out to more people instead of being buried in the comments. Thanks again, Red Hat, for jumping into the conversation!

@RedHatEnterpriseLinux

18 күн бұрын

@@juliaifrank Absolutely! Always happy to help out, despite the Internet's assertion to the contrary 😅 - @scottmcbrien6535 & friends in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux channel

@prasaddd

7 күн бұрын

@@RedHatEnterpriseLinuxstill wayland sucks on nvidia

So is Redhat EL a spin of Fedora? 😁

@juliaifrank

Ай бұрын

Haha, I never thought about it that way! But now that you say it …🤔

No No No centos stream is a recipe for disaster on servers sorry, Centos stream is very very slow rolling release this is not good for server of any kind

@juliaifrank

Ай бұрын

Good to know! Thanks!

I found Fedora kind of slow. May be just my obsolete computer doesn't work well with Fedora.

@juliaifrank

Ай бұрын

I’m curious, what did perform better on your computer compared to Fedora?

@Lp-ze1tg

Ай бұрын

@@juliaifrank Antix Linux.

"Red Hat EL", let's call it "RHEL" :P

@juliaifrank

Ай бұрын

Next time)

Try Are-Eh-EE-L.. easier to pronounce.

@juliaifrank

Ай бұрын

One should use acronyms sparingly :)

@56InchPakoda-vh7lp

Ай бұрын

@@juliaifrank hmm no one at RedHat actually calls it RedHat EL. It's either RHEL or RedHat.. mostly RedHat. but okay. for me I find it harder to keep saying RedHat EL 100 times a day.. hence the preference.. but that's fine.. to each his own. :)

@juliaifrank

Ай бұрын

@56InchPakoda-vh7lp since there are many products under Red Hat umbrella, the sole purpose of using this abbreviation (RedHat EL) is to differentiate which product I refer to. And it felt weird to me to just say RHEL acronym as it is (that’s maybe a result of me constantly being reminded not to use acronyms too much in my scientific writing :) Do people really not mind hearing just the abbreviation?

@56InchPakoda-vh7lp

Ай бұрын

@@juliaifrank I guess it depends on the situation and I am guessing where you might be coming from. For external communications, documented/more formal terms are preferred as opposed to internal communication where abbreviations seem more practical considering for the most part it is usually within small group/team and current product/version is sort of given.. and since the context is set everyone kind of knows what that abbreviation is pointing to. Moreover, the verbosity starts to get tiring. Of course the same doesn't work for external communications (which is where I suppose you are coming from) but then to use it everyday.. (can't think of a better analogy but) it feels like riding a bicycle with wooden sqaure wheels on a rough terrain. :)

@juliaifrank

Ай бұрын

I was indeed thinking more about the external communication type. Thanks for your perspective! I’ll keep that in mind in the future.