Nick VA7NCD 🇨🇦
Making some questionable decisions this evening 😅
Jul 10, 2023 at 5:16amWeb
Show threadNick VA7NCD 🇨🇦Jul 10, 2023
Update: Fedora Linux 38 installed and working quite well on this hardware. Not sure why I suddenly felt the urge, but so far so good.
Show threadPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWKJul 10, 2023

@va7ncd I have Fedora 38 on a laptop, which I bought just for Linux a couple of years ago. No issues. It just works. I changed the desktop to MATE, instead of the default.

I have used Fedora from the first release, and the old non-Enterprise Red Hat Linux versions before Fedora. Newer Fedora releases seem to handle installing on most computers without issue, a far cry from the hardware compatibility lists we had to strictly follow long ago...

Show threadNick VA7NCD 🇨🇦Jul 10, 2023

@wd9ewk I used to run Fedora (and Ubuntu before that) back in grad school, so it’s immediately familiar. I also use CentOS VMs at work.

It’s working pretty good out-of-the-box on my laptop (2 yr old Dell, 11th gen i7). Seems fast and everything is coming up easily 😁

Show threadNick VA7NCD 🇨🇦Jul 10, 2023
@wd9ewk (we have a few machines at work running RHEL 5 for various legacy reasons, quite the throwback!)
Show threadPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWKJul 10, 2023
@va7ncd At my office, it is a lot of Oracle Linux, along with some RHEL & CentOS systems. Fedora works well for my own systems at home, even with new versions coming out every 6 months +/-.