


I was asked toĪuthenticate, and I hate this new Samba security thing. Samba sharing and printing also worked fine, the former with a really decent transfer speed. We're talking hours of Youtube streaming, multiple downloads and file transfers between systems, and more. Fedora 24 sallied through a live session without any hiccups. Progressively worse, on the very SAME hardware. To briefly recap, I've had multiple crashes of the network stack in the Ubuntu family lately, and it's become In behavior of particular distros, desktop environments and apps across their successive versions. But my laptop cannot account for the variance Quite often, it comes up as a topic, and it is used to deflect all and any criticism I have during my distro Again, we will be discussing my notorious Realtek card. However, there have been improvements in this area, and while still somewhat deficient, Gnome The desktop is classic Gnome 3, okay-looking if not spectacular and in need of some ergonomic tweaks to make We have the same story with Fedora 24, a DVD
#Fedora 24 workstation update
A nice firmware update later, things are much cushtier. But hey, the glass is half-full or something, at least it works,īecause until recently, Red Hat distros would not do much on this particular modernish and UEFI-powered This angers me somewhat, then again, Fedora 23 also only worked from DVD on this be Lenovo G50 box. Theĭebian-based distros, the LTS Ubuntu and Mint in particular, are waning in quality and fun lately, but to compensate, I'veĭeveloped a mega-liking for CentOS 7, and in its Gnome and Xfce editions, it's the blast. I have officially unhated theĪnd this is why I'm going to test Fedora in its original guise today.

On the bright side, I have found a new likingįor the Red Hat skunk works test bed, especially the Gnome edition. The background story is as follows: On the dark side, this testing season has beenĪwful.
