6 months challenge

As I like to say I’m going strong on this, but I am not sadly :pensive: I love Linux and especially Fedora Silverblue with close second workstation, but I have to admit Full Linux just can’t be as my main workflow operating system… So I have to switch back to Windows some various reasons and something’s I just can’t do on Linux. There is nothing wrong on my Linux experience and I loving it still and keep using it on VM/WSL and experiment on second laptop, but as on my needs Windows takes still the win maybe in some years I switch back who knows

Sorry for letting you all down since this is a fail now I truly tried and lived every minute on this

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After failing this challenge I was on Windows for maybe week and then went again back to Fedora Workstation and didint do any challenges and I actually like it even more that way I guess I wanted to push my self to switch but I just want to use it and like it without stress and pressure for challenges

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Some large systems (Julia, Sagemath, Rstudio, Jupyter, and many others for niche applications) have robust communities with well-maintained packages. They are often difficult to to package as RPMS because they have unique dependencies on “unicorn” packages or require libraries built with options not normally enabled in distro packages. In such cases it is best to follow community recommendations. That way you have a configuration that is widely used (“all problems are shallow given enough eyes”). There will be times when Fedora has issues, but those are usually regressions in recent kernels and modules that need fixing before they land in other distros (and why I use Fedora).

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For quickly running something (usually the case if it’s not an RPM or locally-compiled), I prefer AppImages! Just download it, and run it as-is from the Downloads folder. And maybe some minor file clean-up for configs later.


Most people love Flatpaks. I dislike the abstraction and bulk. I want stuff running with system libraries, or not at all. I’d sooner download a .deb from an older unrelated distro, extract libraries, and symlink them before going with a Flatpak :stuck_out_tongue:

Flatpaks feel like a whole different system on-top of native Linux, and I have no care to be figuring out another optional layer of abstraction. At least Ubuntu goes in hard with Firefox and some other default apps as Snap out-the-box and makes their preference clear; Ubuntu wants people using Snaps. Flatpaks on Fedora are optional, and the one time I used a Flatpak was with Doomsday Engine (modern engine for Doom/Hexen/Heretic), which iirc didn’t even work right on F38 or F39.

I either install it from dnf, AppImage, extract from a random rpm and mess with libraries, Wine, or not at all; and luckily I haven’t ran into anything yet I couldn’t run :stuck_out_tongue:


I’ve ran into 3 GNOME triple buffering Coprs that just stopped receiving updates all of a sudden, and I wouldn’t rely on other’s Coprs for important software. Using Copr to build your own stuff is fantastic though!

This happened to me 10yrs ago. I wound up on Windows for 1 week, and just looked at what I needed and went back to Linux full time.

Eh I still take a few-day trips to Windows every now and then :stuck_out_tongue:

I can use general apps full-time on Linux, but gaming and other issues still has me switching back to Windows occasionally to check things. I can run Windows primarily and have a LiveUSB of Linux or do WSL, but Linux is more fun to tweak (at times :stuck_out_tongue:) and learn about.

I use cloud gaming when I game and consoles I run Windows 11 pro now as VM on gnome boxes just to check what is going on there and just in case if I need something that I can’t do on Linux. I even moved photography editing to DaVinci Resolve that I can do all in Linux and I actually live appimages I run all jetbrains apps as appimages from jetbrains toolbox that is also appimage. I tried Flatpaks and snaps on jetbrains and those had crashes and small issues that I never had on appimages so I will use those More when needs

There are “mission critical” 3rd party systems that can’t use system libraries because they require “mainstream” libraries (examples are hdf5 and netcdf4) built with options that few, if any, distros enable as well as libraries that most distros don’t provide.

If “your own stuff” doesn’t have the support of an active community, copr is fine. Where there is an active community providing a way to use the software across distros, it is generally better to join the community.

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Fedora 40 workstation with gnome boxes to run Windows 11 pro ( secure boot and TPM2.0 enabled on gnome boxes too ) Windows have half of host laptop resources 16GB ram/ 8 cores, SSD i give only 125GB sine it is just when need to use and see what updates comes



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Better late then never:

  1. I hope you didnt just install a .rpm file but added a repo. Otherwise you often dont get updates, as apps on Linux dont update themselves normally
  2. These “insecure” flatpaks have less access to your system than RPMs. RPMs simply dont have any security rating.

He’s gone. . . :cry:

Same here. I have started using Fedora about a month to ditch Windows for good. Though I still have Windows 10 installed in another drive for if something goes wrong as I a newbie. But I am determined to use Fedora only for my primary and only OS. I am even thinking of leave Davinci Resolve behind because it is a very complicated thing to install and run it in Fedora. So, I have started using Kdenlive and it is good. GIMP is good though it has to go a long road to rich where Photoshop is today, no offense please. It is my own thinking. The best thing in Fedora is everything is FREE. Think about how much money you can save ditching those subscriptions. Yes, I have to learn a lot but that’s also I did when I started using computer which used only MS-DOS and DOS based programs like Lotus, Wordstar etc. Even the Windows was also a DOS based program. We had to type ‘WIN’ in DOS terminal and then it opened. What a fun. :smiley: So, I am not afraid of learning new thing and as far as I am seeing, except the Windows ‘Fanboys’ everybody will migrate to Linux when Microsoft will start its subscription service for Windows and for their every product.

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Look at mattscreative on Youtube. He runs Resolve, Photoshop and a ton of WINE games on Fedora and other distros. It requires a bit of hacking, and Adobe is creepy af, but it works

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Btw, speaking of BoxBuddy and Atom, apx has a GUI and would be brilliant to have on Fedora.

Once I learn RPM packaging… I should totally do that.

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I’m noy saying “good luck” because (1) it is NOT about luck, but about a learning process an about adaptability and (2) I’m pretty sure you’ll love it even if you end up going back to the closed-sourced world. And I will be OK for us down here.

Open-source is about choice. If you choose to stay, we’ll be happy, if you choose to leave, know that you’re always welcome if you want to come back.

So I’ll just say: Enjoy!

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If they ever got rid of KMS activation, the obvious script on GitHub, and even revoked licenses obtained through those means, that would probably encourage migrating to Linux harder than anything so far. But as long as businesses rely on KMS and LTSC builds are still developed, there will likely still be Windows users.


I was primarily on Linux since Windows 10 came out 2015, but I got tired of dealing with Gnome does not allow login since late F38 or F39 and hoping it’d be fixed. That had me questioning priorities enough to even entertain a Windows homelab recently.

I still prefer how Linux does stuff when it comes to commands and syntax and will likely switch back to Fedora once I figure out something with the above; I’m hoping F41, but maybe a whole new computer won’t have the issue. After being content with Fedora for so long I had to figure out how to be flexible with server stuff again to Windows, and now I got some new tricks to use on Linux or even a BSD if I get the time to learn it :stuck_out_tongue:

Hi,
I did move to Fedora workstation since June or July :

  • My laptop doesn’t have a processor compatible with win11
  • since some months, msft move mail app to outlook app (or else) that add ads and ask for money (1€/month) to remove ads
  • I’m used to work with Fedora CoreOS in my home lab so I’m used to read …
  • … Fedora magazine, which did publish that : Slimbook Fedora 2: New Ultrabooks for Fedora Linux 40 - Fedora Magazine

So I’m not testing fedora, I’m using fedora as a daily OS, on a machine that is now win11 compatible but it’s to late msft, you lost me !

For now, it works great ! I’m a DevOps, so I don’t need things that Fedora can’t provide ! :wink:

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