I'm running Fedora 24 on my main workstation and will be holding off on updating for now, but wondering how those that have already installed 25 are finding it?
I'm running Fedora 24 on my main workstation and will be holding off on updating for now, but wondering how those that have already installed 25 are finding it?
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I installed it almost a month ago as the boot sector somehow got wrecked when shrinking the partition and got those three words. It was a bit unstable in the beginning and I'd probably put that down to systemd but it's been rock stolid since then.
Been running Fedora 25 for a couple of months now with no major issues.
Only serious problem is an intel video bug when running a rotated portrait display.
Generally known online as OpenMedia, now working for Red Hat APAC as a Technology Evangelist and Portfolio Architect. Still playing with MythTV and digital media on the side.
I upgraded one of our laptops (which is HiDPI, over 250 pixels per inch) from Fedora 24 to 25 shortly after 25 was released, and had a lot of problems. Some of them settled down with further package updates but some remained until I changed the display server from Wayland to Xorg. Since I did that, Fedora 25 has been as stable for me as 24 was.
Perhaps Wayland problems have been fixed, but I haven't tried it in weeks. I'm happy to stay with Xorg for now.
Fedora shows quite a bit of potential however am sticking to Arch as a desktop distro for now. It seems every time I try Fedora it seems like a beta.
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Wayland seems to show a lot of promise but it doesn't seem quite ready for general use just yet. I upgraded both my workstation and laptop to Fedora 25 a few weeks back and was surprised how flawlessly it all went. I'm still using Xorg though as a few things that I depend on for work don't run properly under Wayland (colour pickers for example).
Other than that Fedora 25 has been working great for me. I was having some issues under 24 with Gnome Online Accounts which have been resolved and Gnome 3.22 has added some useful features.
I don't think Nvidia are supporting wayland just yet but they're getting there. I wish they'd hurry up as X is getting a bit long in the tooth. The only other thing to grumble about is system settings segfaults more often than not.
I'm running Fedora 25 KDE on my work laptop, so I don't get to [have to?] deal with Wayland yet. The release itself is strong one. No complaints.
Generally, with Fedora, I wait a few months after release to upgrade. I figure you can't possibly avoid all the bugs in a cutting-edge distro, but at least you can avoid the big obvious ones that inevitably pop up just after release..
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