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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: 5, Insightful) by Snotnose on Tuesday April 30 2019, @10:49PM (5 children)

    by Snotnose (1623) on Tuesday April 30 2019, @10:49PM (#836934)

    Give me decent housing, good friends, a good job. Those improve my quality of life.

    An OS? Yeah, notsomuch.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by coolgopher on Wednesday May 01 2019, @01:26AM

    by coolgopher (1157) on Wednesday May 01 2019, @01:26AM (#837008)

    Being forced to use substandard tools at work for ~40h/wk can certainly reduce one's quality of life.

  • (Score: 2) by corey on Wednesday May 01 2019, @02:40AM

    by corey (2202) on Wednesday May 01 2019, @02:40AM (#837035)

    It's free, so you don't have to work as much. And you'll get more done with it, same outcome. :)

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @06:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @06:44AM (#837104)

    Found the windoze luser.

  • (Score: 1) by r_a_trip on Wednesday May 01 2019, @09:19AM

    by r_a_trip (5276) on Wednesday May 01 2019, @09:19AM (#837151)

    Should we give you a machine with MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 for Workgroups to do your computing on? Enjoy fiddling with config.sys and Himem to get your devices into upper memory.

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday May 01 2019, @04:15PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday May 01 2019, @04:15PM (#837342) Journal

    Having tools that do exactly what I want them to do, when I want them to do it, definitely brings quality to my life. Forced upgrades and all the rest of the nonsense that comes with the walled gardens massively wastes my time and money. That's what the choice of OS means to me and many others.

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