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I have been using Fedora 36 for a month, here is my review.

Archer Allstars on June 14, 2022

Well, the latest Linux I used as a main driver for my personal laptop was Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. But when I bought a new laptop, Acer Swift SF514-52T, i...
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Jason F

Great write up covering your experience.. I've been driving Fedora 35 with Xfce for a few months now and I love it. No complaints. I'll upgrade to 36 one day.

What's your overall thoughts on Wayland? I've been using Xfce for quite a while now and haven't had any real reason to switch.

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Archer Allstars • Edited

My experience with Wayland is great, the fluidness is way above X11. All the tools that I want are available on Wayland.

In fact, I have to use Wayland to be able to pinch zoom with touchpad on Google Chrome with flag: Preferred Ozone platform set to Wayland 🤣 And I heard, only Google Chrome on Wayland flag can have a sharp UI on fractional scaling (I haven't tried it yet as I don't enable the fractional scaling).

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Nikhil

A more reliable way to find compatible linux laptops would be to buy laptops which are supported by Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) - fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/. This means single click firmware updates for your computer.

Thinkpad laptops are one of the safest option. Dell too. Then there is System76 and Framework which are some other options. Last time I checked, Razer laptops sucks for Linux. I don't know if it has changed in the last two years.

Checkout fwupd.org/lvfs/vendors/ to see if a manufacturer is planning to support Linux firmwares. If they have created an account, but hasn't done anything, LVFS website says that "vendor has an LVFS account" which is a good sign. But might take years to see it through.

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Archer Allstars

Thanks for your suggestion, it's very helpful 😍😍😍

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ANNY DANCE

👍👍👍👍

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gjorgivarelov

Where the Linux advocates at? Lol, of course some parts won't work.

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Archer Allstars

That part is still coming 🤣

I want to give readers the fact that something will not ever work, and let them decide whether they should invest their time and effort into it.

The advocate part can come after this, when the readers are totally prepared to face some hiccup issues 💪

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gjorgivarelov

Some hiccups… is it fair to have hiccups with the hardware you paid for?
You said you used Windows for a bit- how would you compare Windows Subsystem for Linux with the actual Linux installation? Do you think WSL would have sufficed in your exploration of software development?

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Archer Allstars

It's up for the person to decide whether they should waste their time on setting up the WSL or actually Linux installation on bare metal 🤣

For me, I am dual booting Windows and Linux. I don't want to deal with software compatibilities/issues/performance drop. I am planning on triple booting with macOS in the future, as GPU passthrough on it is not supported on any VM 😵‍💫

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Greg Charles Tsang See-Kee Ze • Edited

Thank you for the link showing the hardware (fingerprint readers) that cannot be used by Linux.
Surprised that Fedora cannot update to the later versions of the Linux kernel. The official Ubuntu website has hundreds of already compiled Linux kernels, including that latest alphas and beta releases that have ever been released as source code, by The Linux Foundation.
Only a few Linux systems are based on Red Hat and Fedora. Most Linux operating systems are derived from the Debian core, including the Ubuntu types, such as Linux Mint.
Fedora is the boldest, most adventurous Linux system, experimenting almost alone with Wayland, btrfs, and with the most default settings of the latest Gnome desktop environments. However the Red Hat family does not have easy access to compiled versions of the Linux kernel, unlike the very popular Ubuntu based systems.

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Archer Allstars

Yes, this could be one of the reasons why it's not more popular.

However, in my use case, the lack of an ability to use unsigned kernel modules (easily) is blocking me from using Fedora.

I moved to openSUSE Tumbleweed now.

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Ilya R

I also had issue with wifi on Lenovo IdeaPad L340-15IRH laptop (Ubuntu 18). But on Asus k501ux-dm770t everything works correctly :)

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Archer Allstars

The cause of the issue could be the wireless card itself. In my case, Acer Swift SF514-52T, the wireless card that came with it was Intel AC 7265 which always has a problem with my bluetooth 5.0 headsets(Sony WH-CH710N) whether I'm on Windows or Linux. When I changed to Intel AX210, the problem with my headsets disappeared.