I started having questions F38 or F39 with GNOME: Gnome does not allow login - #5 by Espionage724
And this also makes me question how many chains of people this stuff has to go through: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-High-Priority-KMS-Thread
The latter should have been beta-tested somewhere, at least before reaching every mainstream distro, who apparently are content with the quality of this reaching end-users.
And that GSK_RENDERER thing F41 is particularly odd. There’s no way nobody at dev saw issue with flipping that to vulkan. There’s no way that wasn’t mentioned during beta testing. And yet end users got it. If Fedora wanted to test it, what’s the point of Rawhide? And although it’s pretty loose, this large of a change is interesting before F42’s opt-in telemetry and might make for a case to justify it.
Fedora is known for the latest-and-greatest, but as of the last few releases I’m kind-of questioning how much of that entails it working consistently? I run a server and workstation, prefer a consistent OS, and although Fedora Server has been mostly fine, I’ve lost confidence in Workstation as my primary OS starting with that GNOME log-in thing (it started on Fedora, and I couldn’t even escape it when it inevitably came to Ubuntu and openSUSE).
But simply, I’m not happy with:
- With that GNOME thing happening since F38/F39
- Now see KDE as a primary edition (with GNOME still doing the above and below)
- The latest news with GNOME RT being apparently guessed
- Years of Wayland 2016-2024 being nowhere near as-glamored as people make it (and Xorg now suspiciously not working F41)
- Seeing a general push for Flatpaks and Immutable (the basics aren’t even perfected yet!)
- All the above happening somehow with limited man-power, with “maintenance burden” being used to justify axing Xorg over Wayland (it’s likely I have a later issue with the governance model in-general vs the specific topics)
The Wayland push for years from other users particularly bugs me with Linux in-general. I know what I’ve seen for years up until F41/GNOME 47 on my own hardware, and am pretty confident there’s people who openly-praised worse conditions; I’m just not sure what the gain is for anyone there. To shorten this, FreeBSD’s no-nonsense DIY approach and community appeals to me, and I’m still eagerly waiting for a bit of downtime to switch my server to it 
(but credit for Fedora Server 41 working well in the meantime!)
Buy up some of MS’s apparently-fired Windows 10 QA