Fedora 32 - Nailed It

I might comment this on the YouTube video directly as well, but I am one of those oddball users who loves Fedora... As far as you install behavior and such... I usually have much faster response times on dnf... but chalk that up to your system picking slow mirrors(which does happen from time to time). That said, as far as your out of box experience, I agree it isn’t a great first out of box experience and when meeting the devs in person I asked about a bunch of it and it is mainly due to lawyers telling them what they legally can and cannot put in their repos... The fact you can install the nvidia drivers, they are actually a repo not hosted by Fedora but by RPMFusion a project that Fedora Officially/UnOfficially supports. Because they cannot host the nvidia drivers for whatever “legal” reasons it is a RPMFusion repo with just the nvidia driver. Continuing on with RPMFusion, that is usually the first thing most Fedora users install, as it gives you access to all the non-free drivers to play all your videos and music files, and on the enabling page it actually walks you through installing that group package much like in the old days of “xubuntu-restricted-extras” which I agree something a normal first time user doesn’t even know to do... because nothing points you there, unless you google or ask someone... Also small note for why “RAR” worked, it only unzipped because p7zip is free package that supports “extracting” only if you tried to zip a rar file it would have not been possible without an RPM Fusion package. Lastly, as to why I use it... Well I have been playing with the Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Arch, etc... I just find that Fedora is rock stable while having really up to date packages. I haven’t had Fedora really break that hard on me, where Arch has on a few occasions and I do Linux SysAdmin stuff at work and don’t wanna have to dive too much work on my desktop as well after long day at work... However, that factors part of my choice as well, my place of work is a heavy RedHat Linux shop so using the upstream lets me feel kinda the same at home, but using Linux for so long anyways... it doesn’t really matter what package manager in reality... But I have a weird special use case that is the final big reason I like Fedora, is how easy and reliable KVM Passthrough works for me on it. I have an AMD board and require a special patched kernel “ACS Patch” that breaks out all my PCI busses to allow me to dedicate my second graphics card to VMs. Fedora has something similar to OpenSUSE’s build service, called Coppr and there is a person who builds the Kernel I need using it. I have tried the Ubuntu/Debian repo for similar and OpenSUSE just gave me headaches and Arch’s AUR for the ACS Patch just eh... So Fedora was the best experience, also I just prefer a very stock desktop... TL;DR: Install RPMFusion right after install to get all your non-free drivers and codecs, and a proper software selection... that really is all I have to say... if Fedora would bundle enabling it like the nvidia or google chrome repos, you would have FAR better time with your tests. I am a fan of starting from very stock so my theme changes don’t conflict with other things.

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