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Moving to Fedora? How stable is it? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 12 hours ago by VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I am currently running Xubuntu on all my systems but there are so many things that feel rather unstable/buggy - I am sure it is not all Xubuntus/Xfce's fault, but my knowledge is limited so I just attribute it to that.

Therefore, I am currently considering switching to Fedora. I feel like it is time trying out a new desktop (KDE) and a more up to date kernel. I am not entirely sure what I am hoping from this post, but maybe a "yea, it is worth it" would ease my mind a bit.

Also, I am a bit unsure how to easily move between them (programs and data).

To name a few of the bugs I encountered in the past:

When connecting screens, quite often the created profile is ignored, screens get disabled, overlapped, ... By applying the profile multiple times eventually you can overcome this issue
Dell specific: Webcam does not work, system sometimes freezes after closing the laptop lid even if sleep mode is deactivated
Certain shortcuts are bugged (WIN+Left works, WIN+Right doesn't. When you reset WIN+Right, it works until the next restart)

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[–] frosty@pawb.social 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

RPM Fusion exists to address some of these points. It's a set of RPM repos based in Europe that provide software that the Fedora Project itself will not.

https://rpmfusion.org/

[–] bad1080@piefed.social 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

if you are aware of it and its solutions it surely is a non-issue but for me as a linux noob it was reason enough against fedora. getting into linux is already complicated enough without extra obstacles.

[–] irate944@piefed.social 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

you're right, it was also one of the reasons I avoided fedora originally. Company of Heroes for example would work OOTB in any other distro, but on fedora it would crash as soon the game opened - unless I skipped the intro movies with the steam command. My guess it was the codecs, even though I supposedly had installed them.

But just you know, if someday you give it another shot, you can use this link: https://nattdf.streamlit.app/

It's basically a script builder that helps you get fedora up and running with everything you want. Codecs was never an issue since I used it

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 hours ago

Saving that link, looks super handy. Thanks for sharing it!