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.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @04:43AM (1 child)
Both as a server and as a workstation for my personal projects.
There have been a number of questionable choices made by Fedora over the years, not least of which was Gnome 3.
As for the "quality of life improvements," that's for the great unwashed. The users who don't know or care what's giving them a desktop, as long as they can get online for extra Google/Facebook surveillance.
Fedora is generally pretty solid. For the GUI, i use it with XFCE [xfce.org]. Which works just fine with Wayland.
Wayland [freedesktop.org] does not yet have decent remote desktop capabilities, but Xorg [wikipedia.org] still works just fine if you need remote desktop functionality.
Overall, Fedora Workstation [getfedora.org] isn't a bad choice at all. However, if using it will provide "quality of life improvements," your life must suck pretty bad.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Appalbarry on Wednesday May 01 2019, @08:34PM
However, if using it will provide "quality of life improvements," your life must suck pretty bad.
I did boot up the live USB and went "Oh."
The sheer lack of gee whiz stuff is actually reassuring, but at the end of the day I had to ask why I would bother abandoning Mint/Ubuntu in exchange for Fedora. I can't see that there's anything that would make it better or worse than what I'm using now.