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Fedora nails the basics.

Nice installer, unadulterated GNOME, well-stocked official repos and easy to add third party ones.

That's all I want these days. The only negative thing I have to say about my day to day Linux use is caused by Nvidia's shitty driver and power management issues. My next build will be AMD (or maybe Intel) graphics.



Nvidia works fine for me (even with Wayland) since Fedora 36 (the latest). With X, it worked fine since ages.

I am a researcher and simulations developer, so I can't live without CUDA.


For the most part it works for me, but there are some definite rough edges.

For example, I had to disable suspend because sometimes it doesn't wake properly. I need to reboot to make it work again. The fact I needed to enable a bunch of services (nvidia-suspend.service and friends) to even get it to sleep was enough of a pain. I'm running a 1660 GTX so it's not like I have a niche card with special functionality or anything, it's very run-of-the-mill.

Compared to my laptop (ThinkPad), where everything just worked, it's a chore.

I set up a (Beelink) computer for my parents with AMD graphics and it's been flawless for the past year, I've not even had to do any tech support in that time.




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