Don’t become so concerned with if you could, that you overlook if you should.

I would buy a larger drive.

Snap is that bad when it doesnt work on network home directories, and both firefox and chromium (included in tbe distro) have been moved to snaps… So the included browsers can’t even open.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1884299

Can you point out the wild bugs that kernel panic the OS? I’m an admin for a large number of RHEL machines and our team has talked about switching to Stream. Would love to know more about these bugs.

This all falls apart as a “reason” when you consider Windows Home vs Windows Enterprise.

The better reason is that Windows Home sucks.

Don’t know what’s funny about that. It was originally written/tested on the Google Nexus 4.

Edit: dug up a source:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/FAQ#On_which_devices_does_this_Developer_Preview_run.3F

“The initial development at Canonical happened to be on the mobile phones Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 and the tablets Nexus 7 and Nexus 10”

Production. Means “anything important”.

If I install something and it just plain doesn’t work without google play services - it gets immediately uninstalled and I find an alternative.

Are you intentionaly using NTFS for compatibility with another machine? If not, I’d use a Linux native filesystem like xfs or ext4 and add it to /etc/fstab

Have them check with their University if they do any Linux support. If they do - use one of the distros they support so they might possibly have KB articles about accessing University recourses from Linux.

Source: am Linux admin at a University that writes such documentation. I have seen exactly the Eduroam issue you mention and came up with an Ubuntu workaround for example.

Thanks for the response. I anticipated “it’s slow” but I guess that just doesn’t bother me because otherwise I dig dnf/rpm over any other combo I’ve tried.

For example - a one liner to identify all packages from a particular repo is trivial with dnf, huge pain with apt.

Ok I’ll bite. What’s so bad about dnf? I would take it anyday over apt.

Is this the new “Arch, btw?”

Seems like a knee jerk reaction to me, but I was using Red Hat Linux 9 (not Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9) in ~2003 when they announced the split to RHEL (paid) and Fedora (community). At the time - I was peeved.

Here we are 20 years later and I just don’t get the feeling any move to encourage/enforce paying on the paid side would greatly impact Fedora.

Now the telemetry thing - I get having a reaction to the headline without context, but I also think they publicly announced it, announced WHY it would be opt-out, explained exactly what would be included (and not) - so if you don’t want it why not just opt out and know that it’s existence clearly helps improve a distro you appear to like?

If you’re using Ansible - disable it there. If you’re a heathen that does everything manually - it’s probably just a checkbox.

In the end - I dont “care” what you use, Linux is great because we all have options, but “rhel licensing change” and “Fedora telemetry” seem like really odd/uninformed reasons to abandon Fedora if you like it.

Cheers either way.

The drama is about Red Hat ENTERPRISE Linux, not about Red Hat Home Desktop Linux.

What was the Fedora licensing change? Are you talking about the RHEL source code now requiring a subscription?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/opensuse-seeks-a-leap-replacement-but-will-distro-community-rise-to-the-challenge/

Expensive if you want 1 hoodie, plus most of us would prefer if at least some tiny portion of the money supported the project.

Yikes I didn’t even think about the weight! Hopefully that’s on a concrete slab

Precision are much better than XPS

Hi - been a sysadmin for 19 years and I can tell you why: software that ‘requires’ Ubuntu. I work at a University and all of our required software runs on either RHEL or Ubuntu. I would LOVE to move everything to RHEL and rid my life of Canonical shenanigans, but we have software that just won’t run (in any sane form) on RHEL. The researchers especially love Ubuntu because much of the software used in the LLM/AI explosion is generally released with Ubuntu packages, or install instructions based on Ubuntu package dependencies.

tl;dr - it’s not the sysadmin choosing, it’s the developer choosing.