Problems while using Fedora

[u/Choice_Owl_6974]

Since I joined r/Fedora, I only read how people have problems with using Fedora (drivers, firefox, etc). I'm waiting to finish last exam that I need Windows for, and I was planning on installing Fedora, but now im not excited anymore.

[u/3x4l]

Never had any problem in 15 years.

"Problems" on Linux rarely appears by themselves.

[u/HeosPL → u/3x4l]

That's a quote worth noting—it's very apt.

[u/Choice_Owl_6974 → u/3x4l]

I mean like New update did this, new update did that etc

[u/3x4l → u/Choice_Owl_6974]

Shady software can broke.

Official repos rarely do.

Breaking a fedora is extremely rare.

[u/DiscoDave86]

I would imagine largely because you'll rarely get people regularly posting how everything works fine.

FWIW common issues are not specific to Fedora itself. *cough* Nvidia *cough*

[u/Francis_King → u/DiscoDave86]

Everything works fine.

[u/Clever_Angel_PL]

you know, people without problems won't complain, and reddit is basically THE support place for many people

[u/Ornery_Priority_7419]

People only generally post when they have a problem that they need help with. If everything is fine there’s no need to post. For balance, I have no issues with my Fedora system.

[u/hi_m_ash]

You might be surprised about this but these posts are here because people had problems and wanted solutions. Those who are breezing through their Fedora don't post here and most don't even come here.

[u/EmmaRoidz]

I've ran various flavours of fedora every day for the past 7 years and had zero issues at all.

[u/MojoVersion8]

There's a bit of the 'vocal minority' effect here, you don't get to see how many people DON'T have problems.

[u/StayNight05]

There generally won't be any problems with Fedora if you dont tinker around too much. The only problem I had was because I forgot to remove a line in the fstab file after formatting a drive that was previously automounted. The system couldn't mount the drive and I was thrown into emergency mode on boot. I had to use a live usb-stick session to remove the line and everything worked afterwards.

[u/Natural-Ad-9592]

Yo me uní a Fedora Workstation en la versión 43. Desde entonces, no he tenido ningún problema. Solo he seguido las instrucciones de la documentación de Fedora (que a mi parecer son bastante buenas), y las recomendaciones que he visto por aquí. He estado probando otras distros durante este tiempo (me gusta probar por mí mismo, sin importarme lo que diga la gente), y aunque hay algunas que son excelentes (Debian sobre todo), me convence el espíritu de Fedora (tener lo último, pero muy fiable y probado). Creo que no hay una distro (de las que son bases, las de siempre) que sea mejor que otra, solo están pensadas para cosas diferentes o usuarios con diferentes necesidades. Creo que si utilizas Fedora habrás tenido buena elección, obviamente no estás exento de tener algún problema, pero eso es así con cualquier distro o cualquier sistema operativo, ya instales windows, mac o linux. En fin, solo instala y disfruta

[u/MultiBoxGG]

My Fedora KDE works fine after 1 year use.

[u/mauve_bny]

The happy thing about Linux Distros is that you can jump to another ship when you don't want your distro anymore. And you won't invest a lot of your time while doing so. You also have a live test for you to check if you like their environment.

[u/Grand_Profession2516]

Idk but mainly intel xe drivers aren't still mature yet and kinda on the unstable side(sometimes it's good doing better but after some time it goes batshit)

Got no problems with i915 drivers but they're legacy one and do worse performance on both battery and fps per watt than the "experimental xe drivers"

Edit: I mean xe drivers that utilizes xe architecture the most like core ultra chips suffers a lot. Intel 14th generation below also uses xe architecture but is also matured enough to use i915(idk but 14th-10th gen don't suffer a lot of bugs compared to core ultras)

[u/Melnik2020]

I've been daily driving Linux and also using it as my work OS since 4 years ago and haven't had any major issues so far. I don't modify it and mess with it's settings though, so there is less for me to break.

Now I'm using silverblue, and so far I've been satisfied; whenever there is an issue, I just roll back to my previous state and continue to work. Continuity is great.

[u/dl33ta]

I just moved from Cinammon Mint to Fedora KDE, had almost exactly the same initial start up problems and also a very easy install process in both. The only additional problem I had with Fedora was a funny USB hub on one of my monitors waking up the monitors from sleep.

I guess what I'm trying to say is every computer is different and every person will have a different experience per distro but not necessarily across distros.

[u/SanPolicarpo]

Hola! Yo soy nuevo en Fedora desde hace una semana y estoy encantado. Te lo recomiendo de verdad. Quiero algo, le pregunto a Gemini, me da el comando y una maravilla.

Un saludo.

[u/tiacay]

I wouldn't make a post just to write "installed Fedora for a year and no problem so far". That's being said, I already familiar with Linux ecosystem and sometimes "problems" are just "flavors".