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Old 08-28-2011, 08:44 AM   #1
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(Warn. Rant-ish) Why is Fedora 15 so weird!


I don't understand Fedora. I feel like I'm running Slackware/Ubuntu/and Arch. I try to install things and its like Ubuntu and arch where its mostly command line. Things are constantly conflicting like when I used Slackware and then that damn SElinux has been stepping on my toes all the time. Then I try to use GNOME 3 and I can't pin things. Google-Chrome and other apps can't find their settings for some reason as well. I'm very confused.

Please is there a way that I can like look up information about fedora to understand it? I feel like it could be an awesome OS to work with if I could just understand why its so damn weird. Google searches about fedora have not turned up much for me and their wiki doesn't seem to have the information I need. Instead its mostly full of information for those who use/maintain fedora.
 
Old 08-28-2011, 09:24 AM   #2
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I feel like it could be an awesome OS to work with
Well, your feeling is'nt that far off...Fedora 8 was my first one. And I loved it all the way. But...it's Fedora. I noticed you're using Arch. Well, keep that up. Fedora is version based, and YOU are the beta tester for the Red Hat version. A lot is broken, and can be mended, but it's a learning curve every time. From (fresh) install until backup for a new install...

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Please is there a way that I can like look up information about fedora to understand it?
Of course there is, they have a forum too, you know...

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Things are constantly conflicting
Fedora moves too fast, that's why I left it ... "there"...

Enjoy the rant, it's okay as far as I'm concerned...

Thor
 
Old 08-28-2011, 05:49 PM   #3
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Please is there a way that I can like look up information about fedora to understand it?
Are you a member of their forum?
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/
It's been full of help on how to do all those things that Gnome 3 hasn't got round to implementing yet. But it is a very experimental distro these days. They were going to make btrfs the default instead of ext4 in the next version, but luckily they noticed that fsck doesn't support it yet!
 
  


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