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Was Fedora always so unstable? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by noro_lim_asfaloth to c/[email protected]

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I was on Ubuntu for a year. No major issues, although I used the interim releases, which are supposed to be less solid than LTS. Then, a couple of months ago, I decided to switch to Fedora, just out of curiosity. Many people stated how Fedora is rock solid, Fedora is the new Ubuntu, etc. First some rpmfussion updates broke mesa, then the ostree update broke Flatpak, and recently there was a broken kernel 6.3.11 update that affected some AMD users. A few days ago, I updated my kernel to 6.3.12, and I got frequent freezes on boot. Other users are also reporting such issues. So now I boot with an older kernel. Which is not optimal. There is no LTS kernel on Fedora, the old kernel version doesn't receive security updates. Was it always like that, or it's an unusual bad phase.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Fedora 30 - 36 were phenomenal releases and I mostly used them, recommended them elsewhere.

I had to start using the Spins because the default GNOME desktop is just becoming unusable. Stripping functionality to make it prettier, not fixing longstanding issues.

Then Fedora had that kerfuffle with the licensing issues with codecs, and I couldn't play a certain type of HEVC video that the vast majority of my video library is encoded in.

Then, more recently, I had issues with Python in their repos. That was the last straw. I'll definitely check it out again in a few years to see if they've fixed a lot of these problems, but I wouldn't recommend the distro in its current state.