My First Look At Fedora 36 with GNOME 41 beta desktop environment.
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It has been some time I am using Fedora and I believe it’s time for a Fedora review.
Here I put down my experience with Fedora overall in its workstation edition.
Keeping up with the tradition, Fedora Linux always adopts newer technology across core
modules, packages and brings innovation for you to its desktop flavor. This Red Hat sponsored
distribution is always front-runner while taking risks with new features in Linux desktop
and distribution space. When you compare the numbers, the usage of Fedora Linux across
the world is far lesser than the Ubuntu Linux. However, I believe it mostly because general
people are unaware of its stability and its easy installation and use.
So, since the release of Fedora , I am using it for some time as my daily driver. And I
must say, it is one of the awesome releases from the team. And that compelled me to write
my experiences here for our readers.
Fedora 36 Review
Test Hardware
I tested Fedora 36 in both real hardware and virtual machines. For the virtual machine,
I have used the GNOME Boxes which I feel easy to use.
Live desktop and Installation
After you download the .iso, write it on USB, and booting from it, you get a fresh and productive
GNOME 41 desktop. You can play around with the LIVE session if you want. And if you feel
like, go ahead and install to physical drive via the easy installer.
Fedora 36 installation went on very smoothly thanks to the Anaconda Installer. It only
asks you to provide the target storage, keyboard language, time zone details before installation.
This is one of the advantages of the Anaconda installer which is used by Fedora over the
years. The account creation and other aspects handled by GNOME after installation is finished
and you boot for the first time. I guess this saves some time during the pre-installation
phase.
More bugs or problems I have encountered during the entire installation process. However,
for the older hardware, the installation tool little bit of extra time – approximately
15 mins extra. Probably due to 4G of RAM.
GNOME 41
The first desktop impression is pleasant. If you are using the default GNOME 41 workstation
edition, you get a quick tour of the desktop. The Tour app is part of the GNOME 41 desktop.
The performance is improved definitely since the prior releases. The GNOME 41 desktop brings
additional performance improvements across the desktop while presenting to you a completely
different desktop experience.
After using GNOME over the years, I felt this version of the Fedora and GNOME combination
is the fastest among all. The carefully packaged desktop with Fedora’s chooses modules gives
GNOME 41 a different and favorable experience.
I always find that the same desktop environment performance seems different in various Linux
distributions, despite they are the same. For example, XFCE seems slower in Xubuntu
than in vanilla Arch Install despite they are the same desktop. It is the underlying
Linux distribution that makes the difference and how good they are packaged together.
And Fedora 36 and GNOME 41 are the best among them all. I am really wondering how GNOME
41 would perform when Ubuntu chose to adopt it later this year.
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