I've noticed quite a few Fedora users complaining over the past week about experiencing choppy video and laggy webpages. It seems like graphic acceleration is broken for some people, and this issue appears to affect users across the board—AMD, Intel, and Nvidia alike.
What Linux Operating Systems do you like?
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I've not checked Reddit or the Fedora forum yet to see if people are kicking off.
If you like a distro that is pre-setup for most tasks and has a curated tuned (and all working) set of applications as well as hand built kernels it has a lot to give.
It's not a gaming distro as such but has a lot tweaks (as well as tuned Proton versions) available/pre-installed.
Personally (as a lazy person), I think it's great.
Edit - Also as it is Arch (BTW
) based, it benefits directly from the Arch Wiki as well as having it's own.
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Yep, used Cachy as my daily system for a couple of months and it was great. I didn't really find any noticeable performance improvement over my vanilla Arch install though so I'm back on that now.
YMMV though, of course.
YMMV though, of course.
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If you like a distro that is pre-setup for most tasks and has a curated tuned (and all working) set of applications as well as hand built kernels it has a lot to give.
It's not a gaming distro as such but has a lot tweaks (as well as tuned Proton versions) available/pre-installed.
Personally (as a lazy person), I think it's great.
Edit - Also as it is Arch (BTW
Does Cachy use its own package libraries?
Besides coming pre configured with proton etc is there any reason to use it over Arch?
I use Arch on my main machine, having left it when I built this machine in 2017 due to at the time poor support for my choice of hardware, now having an AMD card I've popped it back on again! I'll be using it a lot more often once I can get out of the grip of Forza Horizon 5 within Game Pass! Will definitely get the next edition on Steam.
Yep, it has it's own repositories and also it's own recompiled/tweaked versions of things. I suppose the reasons to use it over default Arch is it's preconfigured nature. As mentioned above though, the difference in outright performance may be situational or dependant on what you are doing, but at least you know at default everything is setup correctly with far less faff.
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What a mess!
Oh dear! Would be a shame to see Fedora move down the list of distros you could count on to run and test out newer and older hardware.
What a mess!
Fedora is my goto, it has a large install base which means things get tested more and they tend to keep the important toolchains regularly updated on very recent versions which is great for hardware compatibility. Don't much care about the DE or customising the look and feel and don't want to mess about too much, could happily use kde gnome sway cosmic etc. The main thing that makes a distro a distro is the package manager IMO, which Fedora does well.
I loved Fedora a while back. I started on Mandrake 5 and I lost it because for some annoying reason, it stopped liking my PCs
I was favouring Sabayon and that was by far, my favourite distro but that also became unreliable.
I am now running Mint and Cinnamon on my main PC and MATE on another Linux PC and SuSe tumbleweed on one of the Laptops and Mint Cinnamon on the other.
I dont know why, but there has been so many distros that have given me plenty of grief one way or another.
I was favouring Sabayon and that was by far, my favourite distro but that also became unreliable.
I am now running Mint and Cinnamon on my main PC and MATE on another Linux PC and SuSe tumbleweed on one of the Laptops and Mint Cinnamon on the other.
I dont know why, but there has been so many distros that have given me plenty of grief one way or another.
The fedora package situation is weird at the moment. They are looking to move away from their normal rpm repo to their own flatpak repo for a bunch of stuff. There's a lot of devs who would prefer they just use flathub as there have been issues with fedora made packages on their own repo. Fedora now support flathub as a low priority option but it's hard to see what comes from where as a user.
Funny enough I watched a video on it yesterday:
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They started with their own flatpak repo but as I understand it they're relaxing the restrictions and will be moving to the standard repos for (most?) things over time. I have 22 programs installed via flatpak, 4 from fedora repo 18 from flathub repo, no issues encountered as far as I remember.
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All debian, redhat, alpine based distros
For production RHEL
Personal use - I have a slight bias for ubuntu
Note I do not use a linux desktop it's all cli for me
Distros I have a passionate hate for
ARCH - The users and creators who think they know linux have created a b***h - and they think they are God's gift to Linux. Obnoxious gits imho
For production RHEL
Personal use - I have a slight bias for ubuntu
Note I do not use a linux desktop it's all cli for me
Distros I have a passionate hate for
ARCH - The users and creators who think they know linux have created a b***h - and they think they are God's gift to Linux. Obnoxious gits imho
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I wont argue with you about the people but I do like the OS.
Agreed. The community is one of the resons I use EndeavourOS over Arch.
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I use Arch but don't really engage with the Community. Not because I don't like them. More because I don't really need them and I'm an unsociable old git. 
As with all of these things, I am sure that the vast majority of Arch users are fine. It's just a vocal minority that come across as elitist snobs.
As with all of these things, I am sure that the vast majority of Arch users are fine. It's just a vocal minority that come across as elitist snobs.
I might have a play sometime in VM but i'm not a big fan of niche distros these days.