Re:Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu?
by maxk42 on Sunday January 29, 2023 @01:05PM
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Unfortunately Fedora has been making a lot of similar decisions to Ubuntu lately, although it's still better IMO. I'd say coming from Ubuntu, Mint is probably a lower learning curve anyway.
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Re:Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu?
by yoyohello13 on Sunday January 29, 2023 @01:39PM
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What decisions? Fedora is my daily driver and I follow Fedora dev pretty closely, so far they haven’t done anything like Ubuntu. Maybe the custom Flathub repo? But that’s a requirement for them since they can’t host proprietary software for legal reasons.
As far as I understand, the next Fedora release will stop masking most of Flathub by default.
Re:Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu?
by bloopernova on Sunday January 29, 2023 @01:13PM
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Could you please give some examples of those similar decisions? I'm eager to find any evidence of the Fedora admins as bad actors.
My only complaint is that the switch to Wireplumber caused a lot of audio issues on my machine until I reverted back to PulseAudio.
I could also see people not wanting Wayland by default, though that has been working fine for me and the software I use.
I've only been using Fedora for 2 years, but apart from those two decisions, it's been a lot more stable than my time with Ubuntu.
> I could also see people not wanting Wayland by default
It takes a single line change in /etc/gdm/custom.conf to disable it.
Even easier, at login window you can select, and then it will remember your choice.
I haven't seen a decision made in the past that would be relevant, but there is one for future fedora releases https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/269 about installing certain apps as flatpaks rather than rpms by default. These would be fedora based flatpaks rather than from flathub.
It does not actually say how it interacts with existing rpms or whether said rpms will continue to exist or be maintained in the future.
I would say it's too early to get up in arms about just yet.
Me personally, I agree with this approach, but a lot of other people clearly won't.