Fedora 20?


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I was thinking of trying Fedora 20 instead of Ubuntu 14.04, is there much of a difference? Someone told me that media codecs are very limited. I listen to a lot of music and occasionally watch movies. Just wondering if it's as user friendly as ubuntu. 

 

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Fedora 20 is a great alternative to Ubuntu. But they have different installers. If you know well how Ubuntu installer work you will need to learn how to install apps in Fedora thru the command line.

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Fedora 20 is a great alternative to Ubuntu. But they have different installers. If you know well how Ubuntu installer work you will need to learn how to install apps in Fedora thru the command line.

 

Yeah, I know how to install apps via terminal, I got a fedora 20 cd. I may give it a whirl.. Ubuntu's new unity is sluggish, buggy. 

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i think fedora is one of many great linux distros, i used it a lot especially the gnome variations. however, fedora has no apt-get and that always brings me back to ubuntu based distros.

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i think fedora is one of many great linux distros, i used it a lot especially the gnome variations. however, fedora has no apt-get and that always brings me back to ubuntu based distros.

fedora uses "yum" instead of "apt-get". it's basically the same thing

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i never was happy with yum ... and afair it needed *.rmp packages, while with ubuntu you can use the more widely offered *.deb .... i found more than one website only offering deb and i could not use it in fedora. might there be a converter (like alien) exist, but i did not have the patience to do all this.

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i never was happy with yum ... and afair it needed *.rmp packages, while with ubuntu you can use the more widely offered *.deb .... i found more than one website only offering deb and i could not use it in fedora. might there be a converter (like alien) exist, but i did not have the patience to do all this.

it uses .rpm files and pretty much any program that offers a .deb file also offers a .rpm file anymore unless it's a very small niche program

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I've been using Fedora 20 for a while but I'm ultimately going to have to switch back to Linux Mint. It has nothing to do with Fedora itself, in fact I really like how Fedora is very minimal in that it gives you GNOME (or KDE) and nothing else, but I just had endless problems with various kernel revisions and Internet settings. Whereas my hardware worked flawlessly with Ubuntu and Mint.

 

That said, out of the box, Fedora adheres to FOSS. This means that if you want things like multimedia codecs, sub pixel font rendering, DVD playback, etc. you need to install "non-free" repos, like RPM Fusion. There is a tool called Fedy that can do all this for you. But this means that if you're used to Ubuntu, you're going to do a clean install of Fedora and find that things don't "just work" the way they do in Ubuntu. That's in no way a bad thing, and with Fedora, you have the advantage of a significantly lighter system. I also found that Fedora lets me use btrfs very easily, whereas it's a bit more work in Ubuntu to get set up (and doesn't appear to be supported at all in Mint).

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Or just use Debian, or Mint Debian. It's Mint using Debian Testing.

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Thanks guys, yeah I'm gonna have to pass on Fedora, I'll stick with ubuntu. I may retry Mint though. Thanks again!

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Thanks guys, yeah I'm gonna have to pass on Fedora, I'll stick with ubuntu. I may retry Mint though. Thanks again!

 

how do your system specs look like? if you have a cheap chance to upgrade to 4gb ram and a graphics-card with 1gb ram, i would go for kubuntu. kde is really worth a try, so many options, so many effects and it runs incredibly stable by now.

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I'm using a back up laptop right now, 3GB of ram, intel dual core 2.17, intel 4 express series chipset. Its from 2009.

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if you still want to use .deb then why not try debian?

I never use anything than Debian. I like the original system which all other Linux based in .deb are made of.
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How difficult is Debian to use? I like Ubuntu because it generally gives me the multimedia codecs and things I want out of the box. With Debian, I know most of these are optional installs, but is it a pretty simple process or is it fairly involved?

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How difficult is Debian to use? I like Ubuntu because it generally gives me the multimedia codecs and things I want out of the box. With Debian, I know most of these are optional installs, but is it a pretty simple process or is it fairly involved?

I'm wondering this also. I cant imagine its that difficult to understand.

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How difficult is Debian to use? I like Ubuntu because it generally gives me the multimedia codecs and things I want out of the box. With Debian, I know most of these are optional installs, but is it a pretty simple process or is it fairly involved?

A stray to the point process, specially Debian 7.6, it is pretty solid and easy as Ubuntu to install optional codecs.
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Setting up Fedora isn't rocket science. Add the rpmfusion repository and your multimedia needs are covered.

From my experience you are able to install all the software you get on, say, Ubuntu on Fedora as well - more often than not in more current versions.

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im a heavy arch user and also a fan of fedora, its a pretty good distro, very solid! i dislike its disk partitioner (the anaconda one) but the rest is fine and yum >>>> apt-get hehe

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