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I hope they know what they're doing. New users are already confused which to pick and KDE shouldn't draw resources from Workstation.


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dlachausse11/08/2024

Frankly, if you get too confused by which version of Fedora to pick, you probably shouldn't be running Fedora. Fedora is very user friendly, until it isn't. It's my favorite desktop Linux distro, however, the bleeding edge nature of it can definitely bite you sometimes. Fedora is the only distro I've ever used that irreparably corrupted the filesystem with just normal usage. There was no interruption to power or me running any software from outside of the official repos, just a kernel panic out of nowhere and a failed fsck on reboot. To be fair, this was several versions ago, back when it was still Fedora "Core" and I've had only minor, but fixable issues since.

Another issue for newbies is that the vast majority of third party software and tutorials that you'll find on the internet assume an Ubuntu or Debian system that you need the expertise to sometimes "translate" into Fedora/Red Hat.

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criddell11/08/2024

I spent way too much time trying to figure out which desktop environment is the one I should use. 25 years ago, it was something I cared a lot about.

For me today, I don't think it really matter because they are equivalent.

Frankly, all modern operating system desktop environments are good enough. I can install applications, launch applications, configure wifi, reboot, etc... What I need day-to-day is a pretty short list. The real determining factor is application support and that is what determines where I'm going to be working.

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