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Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop

posted by martyb on Tuesday April 30 2019, @10:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the top-hat dept.

jas writes:

Fedora 30, the newest release of the venerable Linux distribution that serves (in part) as the staging environment for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, was released Tuesday, bringing with it a number of improvements and performance optimizations. Fedora 30 uses GCC 9.0, bringing modest performance improvements across all applications that have been recompiled using the new version, as noted by Linux benchmarking website Phoronix.

The new version includes some quality-of-life improvements, for which work began in previous versions. These include the new flicker-free boot process, which hides the GRUB loader/kernel select screen by default, and relies on some creative theming to incorporate the bootsplash image from your hardware into the loading process. This also makes updating software through the Software Center a more seamless process.

If it has been some time since you've taken a look at Fedora, the release of Fedora 30 is a great opportunity to become re-acquainted with the long-running Linux distribution. Improvements to GNOME have redeemed the usability of Fedora well after the initial release of the GNOME 3.x series, while greater attention to usability for users who are not necessarily IT professionals puts it on the same level for ease-of-use as Ubuntu.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/fedora-30-brings-immense-quality-of-life-improvements-to-linux-on-the-desktop/

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by legont on Tuesday April 30 2019, @10:37PM (3 children)

    by legont (4179) on Tuesday April 30 2019, @10:37PM (#836926)

    It is not even mentioned in the summary. Have anybody seen it working? Is it what I hope it is? Which would be an ability to buy 10x resolution monitor, tell the bloody OS to scale it 10 times, and end up with exactly the same font and icon sizes just way way more beautiful. My poor eyes are waiting for this for the last 20+ years.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @11:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @11:14PM (#836947)

    I thought every modern OS had this. Maybe you should switch to Windows.

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday April 30 2019, @11:27PM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 30 2019, @11:27PM (#836955) Journal

    Fractional scaling

    Missing quotation from your comment: when using Wayland.
    Which leads to...

    My poor eyes are waiting for this for the last 20+ years.

    Those who sacrifice the (Uni)X philosophy for their eyes deserve neither (large grin)

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    • (Score: 2) by legont on Wednesday May 01 2019, @11:08PM

      by legont (4179) on Wednesday May 01 2019, @11:08PM (#837591)

      Oh!, come on. I have not had a chance to sacrifice it and possibly never will. Besides, Star Trek under OS360 was my thing.

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