Mechanical keyboard enthusiast inevitably circums to Linux distro hoping syndrome.
Plasma is good, it’s in a better place now than it was even like a year or so ago. I always end up switching from it though because I just don’t need all the stuff that’s in it. But I’d rather use that over GNOME. I still to this day don’t know why people like GNOME so much I find it awkward and “slow” or maybe I’ve just been using it wrong.
I always find that with GNOME it seems like super basic features that should be included are made as extensions instead, which wouldn’t be a huge deal except that the extensions update completely independently of GNOME and each other, with no regard for cohesiveness or compatibility. Every time I’ve run a machine with GNOME it feels like there’s always at least one extension broken at any given moment meaning there’s always something vaguely irritating going on.
I like GNOME because it’s got everything I need and nothing else. I’ve got ADHD, so any distractions are really a problem.
With KDE I have the feeling that it’s kind of “full”. I have always been able to customize Gnome in whatever way I’ve needed, but that’s less in-your-face than in KDE.
It’s also a matter of what I’ve gotten used to. I started using desktop Linux with Redhat 5.2, and that came with Gnome. So, I got used to it, and KDE is different. And of course, KDE might have changed in the last 10-ish years, which, I think, is how long time ago I touched a KDE desktop at all.
But, since I’m happy with GNOME – and, this might sound scary – actually even happier with Unity that I’m using now, I don’t really have any need to venture to try anything else.It works for me and switching to something else would require at least some amount of effort.
I’m already being less active with my children than I would like to, so I don’t like putting any effort into things that won’t really bring something useful for me or others. I prefer spending that effort for being a better father :)I think it’s mostly former apple users who like gnome (gnome 3 era anyway) the most, since to them MacOS looks awkward and slow.
Those users are shown too much in one go kde, lock up and scare themselves away from it.
KDE really needs to change how they introduce new users to it if they want to gain new users. The troubles this user had in KDE will actually help them do that in a small way, but they need more footage of first time users explaining what they are trying to do to help them see what’s actually confusing of not obvious your first time around.
As a fedora kde user, I had similar issues and it took me some time to get everything working. Quite happy with it though.
IBM got to marketing real quick.
Have you actually watched the video? It wasn’t exactly smooth sailing. It wasn’t entirely positive.
Given the amount of trouble shooting demonstrated throughout the video, don’t think the marketing was entirely positive…
IBM?
IBM acquired the company behind Fedora Linux. Although I doubt they had any corporate influence in the production of this particular vlog.
I wonder if they would have had better luck with Kubuntu or KDE Neon? Perhaps if they’re still on KDE by the time KDE releases their Arch distro variant, they could test that too on their hardware.
“The company behind Fedora” is Red Hat.
Red Hat is a huge provider of Enterprise products, from Linux (RHEL, based on Fedora) to Kubernetes (OpenShift) and Ansible (RHAAP).
The Red Hat Enterprise products all kind of suck compared to the upstream open source projects, but they often have a GUI. Think of it as “Ansible for dummies” or “Kubernetes for dummies”.
Every homelabber worth their salt knows this, and I don’t think Red Hat gets a lot of sales because people like Fedora.
In short: I would be very surprised if Red Hat were sponsoring videos about Fedora, let alone IBM.
Is Fedora that bad? I used it briefly but I didn’t find anything wrong with it.
Fedora isn’t, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is.
The paid Linux for companies that want a support contract.
Open source upstream is much newer, and doesn’t have the bloat that Red Hat adds to Enterprise products.
This goes for:
Fedora -> Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Kubernetes -> OpenShift
Ansible -> Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
And probably others I don’t know.
Point is, no one is buying the whole Red Hat Enterprise suite because they personally like Fedora.
They’re buying it because someone somewhere in the org is (rightfully or not) too afraid to run open source software without being able to call in support from a company that knows how it works very well.
