That only applies to the GNOME variant, the KDE spin is missing the third party repo toggle.
At least the Flathub repo is fixed on the GNOME variant now. The Nvidia repo is added but the driver is not installed, meaning you still need to use the CLI to install the drivers.
No, it's like buying a car without understanding how the engine works, which a lot of people do.
It caters to a middle ground that barely exists, meaning it doesn't have enough options for a power user and too many for a newcomer.
For example, a newcomer doesn't know what a root account is and doesn't have to care, yet they have to choose if they want to enable or disable the account. They can also remove their administrator privileges without knowing what it means for them. I get asked what a root account is every time somebody around me tries to install Fedora.
I recommend spinning up a Ubuntu 24.04 VM and taking a look at their installer.
They have a clear structure on how to install Ubuntu step by step while Fedora presents you everything at once. They properly hide the advanced stuff and only show it when asked for it. They have clear toggles for third party software right at the installer and explain what they do. Fedora doesn't even give you the option to install H264 codecs or Nvidia drivers.
It also looks a lot cleaner and doesn't overload people with too much info on a single screen. And yet it can still do stuff like automated installing and has active directory integration out of the box, where the Fedora installer miserably fails for a "Workstation" distro.
The Fedora installer works, but it doesn't do much more than that and the others do it better in many areas.
Long-time Fedora user here. I do not think Fedora is noob friendly at all.
I really like Fedora for their newish packages without breaking constantly. I still would not recommend it for beginners.
Shoutout to Frictional Games (known for Penumbra, Amnesia, Soma) who publish many of their older (commercially successfully) games on their GitHub: https://github.com/FrictionalGames
Right you are, but don't start telling everyone so I can't silently download my lossless albums from Tidal, Deezer and Qobuz anymore.
I used to have a second partition with Windows for such cases, but over time I just stopped bothering with those games.
Now I just refund if it doesn't work and move on in my to-play list.
I still have a Windows VM for some applications and for doing firmware updates but I never bothered to set it up for playing games.
I use ROCm for inference, both text generation via llama.cpp/LMStudio and image generation via ComfyUI.
Works pretty much perfectly on a 6900 XT. Very fast and easy to setup.
I had issues with some libraries only supporting CUDA when trying to train, but that was almost 6 months ago so things probably have improved in that area as well.
Yes, but it is the cause for having issues jumping between networks and never having proper IPv6 support.
What issues are you having? I have no issues with switching between networks and using IPv6 on Fedora KDE.
The only thing I ever noticed was that its stubborn with releasing its DHCP IP addresses and there is no refresh button in KDE. Disabling and enabling again usually solves that, although not sure if that is on NetworkManager or dhclient.
Everything is “out of scope” with GNOME these days it seems.
It is, that's why it is not a suitable DE for people that need more than the basics. I wish they were better with adding advanced features but they are not and probably never will be.
KDE might not be as pretty and flashy but it is pretty extensive when it comes to settings and fast with implementing new features.
NetworkManager is not the cause for having multiple UIs, that is just one of the side effects of GNOME going for the minimalistic approach. It's never going to have all settings in their simple UI because that's out of the scope for the GNOME project.
If having advanced network settings in a single UI is important to you, use KDE. It has wifi, static IPv4/IPv6, VLANs, routes, bridges, VPN and much more all in one interface.
That's the reason I used the VLC alpha for a long time, it's fixed there.
Moved away from VLC for music playback since then.
Does it lock up when booting? Fedora's kernel has issues booting on Surface devices since Fedora 39.
You either need to switch kernels (e.g. linux-surface kernel) on a different machine or switch distro.
Running an outdated Fedora version is not the solution.