I am a Fedora user.
I like to share my experience with
Fedora with other computer users in the world outside
of Fedora, but they ridicule and berate me ( even Linux users ),
for not using their so-called "normal operating system." So I turn to my potential
friends in the Fedora community for moral support.
Thank you all for the warm welcome.
I use Rawhide, and lately I use Xfce, but I prefer Gnome,
and Plasma ( actually have never tried Plasma in Fedora, but
it is on my bucket list )
The benefit to using Xfce on Rawhide, is that you get a
stable desktop environment, that very rarely changes, but you
get to test Fedora's latest version of system components
like systemd 245 and kernel 5.6.0-rc5.
It just may be, that I am the only person on Earth
( besides the maintainer of Xfce in Fedora ??, whoever
that is ), that is interested in this topic.
Today's fine update,
brought the latest anaconda packages, dracut, firefox, glibc, perl-(numerous packages ),
inxi ( which I use regularly ), info, iwl####-firmware, kbd, linux-firmware,
pcre2, vim, webkit, python3-cssselect2, shadow-utils, set-troubleshoot-plugins
and most of all the initial pieces of kernel rc6, and wine 5.4.1
That update went smoothly, as has most of my past 90 Rawhide updates.
I assume that if I were running the pre-Beta of Version 32, that I would get almost similar
packages, but just with the fc32 suffix instead of the fc33. I do plan to have an install
of Fedora 32 on hardware, but the COVID-19 hysteria has turned my world upside-down.
One thing a Rawhide user can do to minimise the risk, is to install the update for each
package separately. But I need to learn more about that, before telling people that is the
way to do it. Another tip, I have heard is to not do the update from a graphical environment,
but instead through the tty. I have not found that to be necessary.
My goal is to show people how to use Rawhide, but I am not there yet. Mostly, as to why they
should run Rawhide instead of Tumbleweed, or Neon Developer's Unstable Edition, or Mageia
Cauldron, or OpenMandriva Cooker. Rawhide is superior, is the reason, but I need to be able
to explain that in logical sensical terminology.
I am a novice Rawhide user, and probably always will be. ( But even Mr. Torvalds announced
once when introducing his new kernel idea, that it was just a tiny project ). Who knows, maybe
someday in 2040, I will fork Rawhide, and call it "FudOS."
I do not know how to write a "hello world " program. But maybe I will
learn that someday. I am pretty good at playing FreeCell in Aisleriot, and not to shabby
at Gnome Mahjongg.
My long term goal is to learn more about the things that Linux novices struggle with like
printing and wi-fi, and video cards and all the things a gamer must do to set up a AAA game
with the latest packages. I am not there yet, but occasionally watch a YouTube video to learn.
Cheers,
David Locklear
Arcola, Texas USA
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