The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience

Posted Jan 16, 2013 0:17 UTC (Wed) by grunch (subscriber, #16603)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience by mordae
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience

I *just* took the plunge. This was the cleanest, quickest, dare I say *easiest* Fedora upgrade I've yet experienced (having left it after FC4 and returned at F13). I installed FedUp and off I went. Now running F18. I tried F18-beta on a VM and was pretty unimpressed with the new installer at the time. Time to try it again.

I also noticed the setting for the Alt/Super change under the "Windows" tab in the GNOME Tweak Tool ("Modifier to use for modified window click actions"). So no need to invoke the scary dconf-editor to change it.

No complaints so far! Nice work!

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The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience

Posted Jan 16, 2013 9:54 UTC (Wed) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]

I use Fedora on a laptop. Upgraded to Fedora 18 yesterday. Really easy, though I think there is still enough room to make it easier.

e.g. slightly more info during the upgrade (you can press escape, but that is way too much info), integrated notification, a GUI instead of a command line application, and no manual steps like "run grub"

IMO the only info I'd want during the upgrade is an ETA, a reminder that it is upgrading and something to know that it isn't stuck.

Still, very easy and was impressed.

The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience

Posted Jan 16, 2013 23:31 UTC (Wed) by mordae (subscriber, #54701) [Link]

It came out a lot more whiny than I intended. :-D

The i915 issues have disappeared as soon as I've upgraded to rawhide kernel (the regression that bit me have been fixed in git) and the gnome-shell have been stable ever since.

Layout switching still sucks, although I have found both-shifts-toggle in the tweak tool, switching takes about 1 second to complete, which breaks my work flow when editing technical text.