I have been using Linux since 1998, but today it was a total blow off.
Here is the full experience:

1. Downloaded Fedora 23. Put it on the USB. Booted. When anakonda's window appeared, suddenly 2 dialogs showed up with some error message (which I don't remember because i was very silly and out of context) but then everything freezed I could not even click the "Quit" button. "No problem", i said, lets download 22 and upgrade.

2. Downloaded Fedora 22. Put it on the USB. Booted. When anakonda's window appeared I click on the Hard Disk icon, but guess what, my IDE disk is not present! (I use IDE because my main data goes on SATA which is discconnected during installation, kind of reusing old hardware, saving money) Could not beleive they didn't compile IDE driver into kernel. "No problem", I said, lets download 21 and upgrade

3. Downloaded Fedora 21. Put it on the USB. Booted. Anakonda passed, everything cool, installing. Just when everything have been installed a message appeard: "The was an error making disk bootable, your installation has failed"....

I mean, what the HELL is going on ??? Is it time to throw Fedora and make my own linux diistribution? Because nobody can make it well done!!! It is not free software anymore, I lost an entire day downloading, trying USB images and looking for what's wrong!

Finaly installed Centos 6.2 , from an old image I had , and finished in about 40 minutes.

Will be switching to Centos now. Fedora is dead to me.

Before you dismiss Fedora entirely, why don't you give Korora a spin?!

Korora is Fedora done right.

https://kororaproject.org/about

I promise you, you won't regret it.

No matter how silly or out of context an error message may seem, take a note of it. Try to resolve it.

My car isn't working for me, so I'm going to build one of my own rather than try a different model.

In that case, unless you have invented a machine to make time stand still, no software is.

Thank you for your rant. Now what is the question you wanted to ask?

Or, maybe - what contribution have you made ?.

Being rpm distro dyslexic myself.

I also suffer from being a victim of my own mind.
If Cent0S has inxi or you install the script later after the the install.

Throw your computer specs in this thread so members can see what you are talking about.

http://www.binarytides.com/inxi-syst...rmation-linux/

use step 8 to post full information in terminal and copy and paste to post here in between code tags.

it is the hash mark "#" on the toolbar after you hit the Go Advanced reply button.

viva Fedorda lmao .... its good to vent and glad to see that you where able to move on to a different Distro that solved your problems.

Bleeding edge distros aren't made for ancient hardware.

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Did you check your downloaded iso with SHA1, to make sure it wasn't corrupted? You really didn't detail alot of the process.


Hey, that's the way it goes. Sometimes you have spend alot of time at something to figure it out and get good at it...We have all been there...

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thats why I understand his frustration and need to vent...

trial and error

If we all came on here to vent like that whenever something didn't work, it would be the angriest forum on the internets.

they'd have to rename it to Linux-therapy.com

he could have went to the general topics on that one though, or formed his venting into a question at the end. Like a vauge one such as, What did I do wrong?

Fedora is and will always BE FEDORA

it is what it is


GREAT for some things and very bad for others

it changes VERY FAST
and uses the newest of the new -- this has and WILL always cause some problems !

there is a rather OLD book
"Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

this ALSO applies to Fedora !!!!!!


except it for WHAT it IS!!! and not what YOU want it to be !!!!

also WHY CentOS 6.2 ??????

it is 5 versions out of date and there are have been NO updates in many YEARS

Absolutely.
If this had been a rant at Fedora for not having a driver for the latest video caerd or the kernel being "past it" I could understand. Complaining tha Fedora doesn's support last-millenium's hardware is like complaining that CentOS doesn't support this year's NVIDIA cards with the open-source driver.

IDE is not old yet. I bought this motherboard in 2009, what ancient hardware could it be!

I am not alone, join the "Fedora sucks" club:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22fedora+sucks%22

It's a standard supported in the name of backwards-compatibility five years ago -- that's an obsolete standard. The merits or not of that are irrelevant -- Fedora is a cutting-edge testing ground and always has been.
Yeah, I am sure many people dislike Fedora but I think if they hate it for reasons other than it not supporting the latest hardware and having the latest kernel they are just being silly. I hate aeroplanes for not moving slowly on the seas!!!!!
Sorry, I suppose you just want to vent.