• gustofwind@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I tried basically every distro on my laptop and fedora worked all hardware 100% out of the box + printer + fingerprint reader + all day battery life

    Fedora gnome is so good it makes Linux boring

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      24 minutes ago

      Unless there is an update and you have to wait for a couple of months to get all the extensions back

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        18 minutes ago

        And then you just go to extension.gnome.com and tell to run the extensions anyway by ignoring the GNOME version

        Don’t have much experience but I run extensions designed for 45 on 49 without any problem

        Unfortunately for me GNOME without extensions it’s unusable and I don’t have the patience to stay 3-4 versions behind to ensure compatibility

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      1 hour ago

      Fedora gnome is so good it makes Linux boring

      Is this a workflow thing? I was looking at Fedora last week and I’m interested to hear what you like about it.

      I’m on Cinnamon and made everything look like OSX, but it seemed like gnome would have a learning curve. And as much as KDE looks like Windows NT, something a touch more modern does seem nice.

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      4 hours ago

      I wish my fingerprint scanner worked D:

      Honestly, the only two problems I have had at all are fingerprint scanner (like, lowest priority for me), and the battery continues to drain quickly even when I close the laptop or put it in sleep mode or whatever it’s called

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        3 hours ago

        Ah I’m sorry to hear that all I can suggest is trying to look up what your specific hardware is and see if there are any solutions on archwiki or something

        I did make sure to get a thinkpad because I heard they have excellent Linux support so it is possible your hardware just doesn’t have a proper solution yet 🤷‍♀️

        But I am not a coder so I don’t really know how to do anything but google and try