• joojmachine@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      Although most of the praise in the article actually goes to the improvements in GNOME, it’s always great to see Linux getting high praise on more “mainstream” news sources. ZDNet is more techy than normal, but still reaches a wider audience than Linux-specific articles.

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      “It has a cool default theme for Gnome, and there’s a colored bash prompt.”

      The “cool default theme” in Fedora is the default Gnome theme. There isn’t a “colored bash prompt.” Fedora is a major distribution on par with stuff like Arch and Debian, so news about Fedora is news about linux.

      Love Fedora, hate Fedora, I couldn’t care less. But at least do a little research.

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      There’s definitively more to a distro than the shell prompt and wallpaper.

      Besides the obvious package repos and how well package interoperability is maintained, there’s also differences for default configuration. OpenSUSE offers sane options for security OOtB, IMO.

      Then there’s also linux itself. Some distros build the default kernel package with a set of patches to improve typical usability, while others just ship an untouched upstream version. Some offer alternatives while others don’t.

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      I am sucker for these things. I have a small laptop I keep around for menial tasks and I use Mint on it. I wanted to change it for a while and this article just tipped the balance. Fedora here we go! Although I will be using Xfce for it’s lightweight.

      But… Yay Linux! Yay Fedora! Yay OP!

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        Although I will be using Xfce for it’s lightweight.

        In many cases KDE Plasma is actually more optimised. Try both and compare the difference.

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        There’s nothing better than Mint. I’ve tried them all. Mint is the best all rounder. Those guys really nailed it.

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      It’s made by red hat. They likely pay people to advertise it on various places, or braindead people love it because it’s made by a company.