Re:Fedora 24 was released
by AdmiralAsshat on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @01:13PM
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Fedora usually has a more up-to-date kernel than Debian or Ubuntu. This typically makes its hardware support better. Anecdotally, I've had three laptops that I've tried to load Linux onto:
-1) 2010 Toshiba Qosmio
-2) 2013 Chromebook Pixel
-3) 2015 Dell XPS 13 9343
I tried a bunch of different distros and DE's (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Linux Mint: Debian Edition, ElementaryOS, Fedora, etc.) Everything ran okay on the old Toshiba, but on both the Chromebook Pixel and the Dell XPS--both of which have very Hi-DPI displays--Fedora was the only one I tried on them that mostly worked out of the box vis-a-vis display, keyboard, and trackpad settings. So I've mostly tended to stick with that.
The omission of non-free drivers can sometimes cause problems, however. The Dell laptop uses a proprietary Broadcom wifi driver, so that won't work out-of-the-box in Fedora due to it being non-free. I've debated just tearing out the wifi card and replacing it with an Intel one to avoid dealing with that headache.
-1) 2010 Toshiba Qosmio
-2) 2013 Chromebook Pixel
-3) 2015 Dell XPS 13 9343
I tried a bunch of different distros and DE's (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Linux Mint: Debian Edition, ElementaryOS, Fedora, etc.) Everything ran okay on the old Toshiba, but on both the Chromebook Pixel and the Dell XPS--both of which have very Hi-DPI displays--Fedora was the only one I tried on them that mostly worked out of the box vis-a-vis display, keyboard, and trackpad settings. So I've mostly tended to stick with that.
The omission of non-free drivers can sometimes cause problems, however. The Dell laptop uses a proprietary Broadcom wifi driver, so that won't work out-of-the-box in Fedora due to it being non-free. I've debated just tearing out the wifi card and replacing it with an Intel one to avoid dealing with that headache.