I was hesitant to upgrade to Fedora 19 on my Fujitsu as I was busy
in meddling with Zorin on my ASUS. I found that Zorin despite a good OS, is not fit for me as I am a
power end user and hence, finally I ended up in installing Fedora 19
MATE Compiz Spin.
Fedora 19 has improved a lot compared to Fedora 18. However the stability is compromised on MATE. What happened in this spin is XFCE & MATE Environment are combined and hence the File Manager & Panel's are crashing.
After receiving some updates and reading reviews, I found that Fedora 19 KDE is the best. The detail of the review can be found from the link http://mylinuxexplore.blogspot.in/2013/07/fedora-19-review-not-flashy-but-very.html
I installed both Gnome and KDE and find that KDE is really more stable and better compared to Gnome and MATE
The only one thing I hate is the slow booting up and it takes longer to enter the DE. Almost 75 Seconds to 90 Seconds. However stability is great.
After seeing the performance, I have upgraded my Fujitsu laptop also. It is performing well. It takes about 45 Seconds to 56 Seconds to boot up and become workable. The response time is much better in KDE than Gnome.
F-19 can be tried... as it is certainly better than F-18.
My review
Installation:
The installation Process is exactly same as Windows 8; same as Fedora 18.
The anaconda installer is tweaked to resemble windows and hence it is a crap.
The previous options like:
a) Replace Linux
b) Shrink Space
c) Use Free Space
are gone and hence I do not like it.
DE Choices
Gnome, KDE, LXDE, XFCE, MATE, Cinnamon & Razor-qt are the DE Choices. The F-19 seem to work better with KDE than any other desktop
a) Gnome crashes if you use Cover Flow Add-on
b) XFCE/MATE Spins are really useless with no proper app set
c) LXDE is never my choice
d) Razor-QT a Suse invention is really good on an old machine and there is no Fedora Spin for it yet.
The only choice is KDE
Application Set
Default Set is good & reasonable on Gnome & KDE but not so on other spins
Hence Internet, Office, Media and Games one has to select and install
Yum Extender is good and then KDE Software Manager is much easier
Virtual Box is no more install-able through terminal
The download cracks once 16MB size is reached
It is better to download RPM and install.
Boot Time
The Boot Time is really bad.
Initially it took 36 Seconds, but after a kernel update and Virtual Box Install, the same has increased drastically. The details of time taken for booting is as below:
a) Now 10 seconds to get the Kernel Selection Menu
b) 40 Seconds to Log-in Menu
c) 10 Seconds for DE
Thus almost 1 Minute is being spent
I believe it is because of my hardware. The fresh install was 36 Seconds only. Fujitsu is about 45 Seconds
F-18 to F-19
a) Auto-Log-in Facility is taken out. Only Gnome Case - it works however with other DEs it is gone.
b) Security Menus enhanced i.e the power & usability is enhanced
c) More Eye-candy animations have been included
d) More windows compatibility - wine is really good
e) Scanner Compatibility has weakened. We have to use certain patches to make scans better
f) Printer Support has weakened. However with the help of Foozjs you can have better printing.
g) Tab & Phone Integration is better
Conclusion
Originally when I moved to Fedora (F-15) I felt Fedora aims at testing RHEL's New Ideas and also provide us a great OS. I became Fedora Fanatic as I found None of the Debian Distributions are capable of bringing such a computation environment and there is no other RPM Linux which is equal to Fedora. Sabayon & Arc Linux Distros are not really user friendly like Fedora at that time.
Windows 8 has spoiled the Linux Environment completely. Except Sabayon & Arc Linux Distros all Linux are focused on bench-marking on Windows. Hence in Long Run, I do not feel Debian and RPM could satisfy me. However on this worsening scenario Fedora satisfies me a lot compared to Debian Distros, CENT-OS, Mandriva & OpenSuse. The only devil which I am yet to try is Mageia. PC-Linux-OS is better however as there are no DE Choices like Mandriva, I am not feeling good at it. But it is comparably better and can be attempted upon in case one is not satisfied with Fedora.
My eye is set on BSD but since I do not have the needed knowledge and skills; my mind things of using more of Sabayon & Manjaro; however for my combined usage I stick with Fedora for the time being.
Fedora 19 has improved a lot compared to Fedora 18. However the stability is compromised on MATE. What happened in this spin is XFCE & MATE Environment are combined and hence the File Manager & Panel's are crashing.
After receiving some updates and reading reviews, I found that Fedora 19 KDE is the best. The detail of the review can be found from the link http://mylinuxexplore.blogspot.in/2013/07/fedora-19-review-not-flashy-but-very.html
I installed both Gnome and KDE and find that KDE is really more stable and better compared to Gnome and MATE
The only one thing I hate is the slow booting up and it takes longer to enter the DE. Almost 75 Seconds to 90 Seconds. However stability is great.
After seeing the performance, I have upgraded my Fujitsu laptop also. It is performing well. It takes about 45 Seconds to 56 Seconds to boot up and become workable. The response time is much better in KDE than Gnome.
F-19 can be tried... as it is certainly better than F-18.
My review
Installation:
The installation Process is exactly same as Windows 8; same as Fedora 18.
The anaconda installer is tweaked to resemble windows and hence it is a crap.
The previous options like:
a) Replace Linux
b) Shrink Space
c) Use Free Space
are gone and hence I do not like it.
DE Choices
Gnome, KDE, LXDE, XFCE, MATE, Cinnamon & Razor-qt are the DE Choices. The F-19 seem to work better with KDE than any other desktop
a) Gnome crashes if you use Cover Flow Add-on
b) XFCE/MATE Spins are really useless with no proper app set
c) LXDE is never my choice
d) Razor-QT a Suse invention is really good on an old machine and there is no Fedora Spin for it yet.
The only choice is KDE
Application Set
Default Set is good & reasonable on Gnome & KDE but not so on other spins
Hence Internet, Office, Media and Games one has to select and install
Yum Extender is good and then KDE Software Manager is much easier
Virtual Box is no more install-able through terminal
The download cracks once 16MB size is reached
It is better to download RPM and install.
Boot Time
The Boot Time is really bad.
Initially it took 36 Seconds, but after a kernel update and Virtual Box Install, the same has increased drastically. The details of time taken for booting is as below:
a) Now 10 seconds to get the Kernel Selection Menu
b) 40 Seconds to Log-in Menu
c) 10 Seconds for DE
Thus almost 1 Minute is being spent
I believe it is because of my hardware. The fresh install was 36 Seconds only. Fujitsu is about 45 Seconds
F-18 to F-19
a) Auto-Log-in Facility is taken out. Only Gnome Case - it works however with other DEs it is gone.
b) Security Menus enhanced i.e the power & usability is enhanced
c) More Eye-candy animations have been included
d) More windows compatibility - wine is really good
e) Scanner Compatibility has weakened. We have to use certain patches to make scans better
f) Printer Support has weakened. However with the help of Foozjs you can have better printing.
g) Tab & Phone Integration is better
Conclusion
Originally when I moved to Fedora (F-15) I felt Fedora aims at testing RHEL's New Ideas and also provide us a great OS. I became Fedora Fanatic as I found None of the Debian Distributions are capable of bringing such a computation environment and there is no other RPM Linux which is equal to Fedora. Sabayon & Arc Linux Distros are not really user friendly like Fedora at that time.
Windows 8 has spoiled the Linux Environment completely. Except Sabayon & Arc Linux Distros all Linux are focused on bench-marking on Windows. Hence in Long Run, I do not feel Debian and RPM could satisfy me. However on this worsening scenario Fedora satisfies me a lot compared to Debian Distros, CENT-OS, Mandriva & OpenSuse. The only devil which I am yet to try is Mageia. PC-Linux-OS is better however as there are no DE Choices like Mandriva, I am not feeling good at it. But it is comparably better and can be attempted upon in case one is not satisfied with Fedora.
My eye is set on BSD but since I do not have the needed knowledge and skills; my mind things of using more of Sabayon & Manjaro; however for my combined usage I stick with Fedora for the time being.
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