Well I was looking to try the latest fedora 44 beta, and joined the forum, because I was excited to try it.
I couldn’t help but notice, but there doesn’t seem to be any reports of successful installation of the new fedora 44 beta on fedora forums. Instead there’s a lot of reports to the contrary, about broken installs, broken functionality(possibly due to wayland)
and there’s sort of like a robotic anti-social trend here, that leaves me feeling, with like a taste of metal in my mouth, overwhelming darkness. I can’t help myself to have feelings, that is what makes for an intelligent human being after all.
Anyways I was looking to try it out, but has anyone succesfully installed 44 beta? Any recommendations for a desktop environment? Anything new, and interesting to report? Anything exciting about it all?
I was initially excited about it in other words, but now my excitement has given way to an intractable sense of antipathy.
Keep in mind, people don’t come to a help forum to report to successful installs. They come when they are having problems so it is pretty normal to only see reports of problems.
There is a section of the forum for help and a section for other discussion. However, “I successfully installed Fedora” wouldn’t be a very meaningful or useful discussion.
You posted in the help section of the forum which is what my response is based on. If you take a look at the Project Discussion category, you can see many discussions about Fedora overall there.
The greater point of my response was that it is normal to see reports of failure and not reports of success.
I want to talk about the new beta, and all things fedora
Anyways I was looking to try it out, but has anyone succesfully installed 44 beta? Any recommendations for a desktop environment? Anything new, and interesting to report? Anything exciting about it all?
Yes. I downloaded it, set VM to the F44-Beta raw.xz and was using within 2 minutes with zero problems.
There is a lot of governance and processes within the Fedora Project for getting releases out. I see no reason for someone to assume that a release would be completely broken and not able to be installed.
It makes me worried : D I need to develop a plan of action for it. I don’t want to install it merely in a vm, for a vm I would choose a lightweight distro. (my preference)
Usually the problems that occur with betas, aren’t evident in a vm, but when attempting to make a typical new install, on a regular computer.
Basically almost all problems would be visible in a VM. The ones you wouldn’t see are hardware specific where there is uncommon/rare hardware or special configuration of such hardware that is not being used for the testing.
you mean, the problems you wouldn’t see (installing a beta to a vm) are all the potential problems that deal with the actual computer we want to install it on to begin with
I was reading your topic yesterday. My conclusion was that you would like to be on the secure side about your Hardware. So this would be an additional check if you like, otherwise just go for it.
I installed f44 successfully in a vm choosing the gnome environment. If I encounter glitches or bugs I report them so they can be addressed before final release.
That’s what you should do too.
Also tell us what went wrong during your install attempt and possibly report bugs to the devs so they can be fixed.
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