[clug] Lenovo to ship laptops pre-installed with Fedora

[Brenton Ross]

I was considering a comment on much the same lines. Fedora is fine for
those that understand Linux, but is certainly not something I would
recommend to a new Linux user.

I suppose we need to consider that a company like Lenovo doesn't make
decisions like this lightly. They must have done some market research.
I can only assume that they found there was a market amongst those who
are employed to maintain Redhat systems.

Brenton


On Wed, 2020-04-29 at 07:04 +1000, Lindsay Steele via linux wrote:
> I am a little torn on this one,  as a Fedora user on my desktop and
> laptops
> I think it is great in some ways that there are Fedora options but
> the
> support aspect might be problematic for the average user.   Then
> again
> maybe the average user is not the market here.
> 
> Although Fedora is good for (at a minimum) semi experienced Linux
> users who
> want to be part of the Redhat way of doing things, it is not exactly
> the
> first distribution I would give to someone else that I have to
> support
> considering the leading edge nature of the distro and it's constant
> stream
> of updates.  You also run into the fact that the life-cycle of the
> distro
> is six months between releases and about thirteen months before
> updates
> cease.   This compares to the Ubuntu two/five year releases.
> 
> I wish them all the best,  maybe it will encourage Fedora to consider
> an
> LTS release for these kinds of things.   They are also maybe aiming
> it at
> those people who are happy to self support and do the major upgrades
> every
> six months.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 19:36, Chris Smart via linux <
> linux at lists.samba.org
> >
> wrote:
> 
> > I assume y'all have heard the news on your social media or
> > whatever, but
> > Lenovo is planning to ship laptops this year pre-installed with the
> > upcoming Fedora 32[1]. Hopefully they are made available in
> > Australia too,
> > Dell's Ubuntu based XPS 13 Developer Edition still is not.
> > 
> > ThinkPads usually run Linux really well anyway, and we all know
> > that
> > Fedora is the greatest (that flame bait, even though it's true),
> > but I
> > guess it's good news that you can buy them with Linux soon
> > (hopefully).
> > 
> > [1]
> > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/lenovo-is-joining-dell-in-the-oem-linux-laptop-club/
> > 
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