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Re:Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released by swalsh on Friday October 19, 2018 @10:01AM (#18256770)
As a Fedora user, I'd be one of the first to admit that Ubuntu is more user friendly. The installation of the graphics drivers for example was a HUGE pain on Fedora. Getting everything in gnome setup was quite a chore. Printer setup was a pain

That said, i've found the long term stability of Fedora to be better than Ubuntu. The main reason I switched was I had a few instances where I upgraded, and several things on my system just broke. That hasn't happened to me with Fedora.

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Re:Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released by bpye on Friday October 19, 2018 @10:35AM (#18256980)
I've found that, at least with Fedora 28, Nouveau is sufficient, surprisingly even for a modern GTX 1070. Of course I'm missing out on much of what it is capable of however for a standard desktop experience it's fine. I still use Windows for any games. If you wanted CUDA on Linux then I suppose it might be better to stick to the beaten path.
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Re:Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released by barrow-rider on Friday October 19, 2018 @02:33PM (#18258886)
From Fedora 26-on Drivers have been pretty good. Nvidia card works great with the binary-blob from the RPMfusion repo, and no issues with using the Brother network printer.

Pre-26 I'd agree with you.

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