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

[Neill Cox]

I guess I can see this argument, but having previously been an Ubuntu user
I find myself much happier with Fedora.  The six-monthly update process is
pretty straightforward. Smaller, more frequent updates can be a lot easier
than moving from one Ubuntu LTS to the next. I don't really see much
difference ease of use between the two distros (but I'm hardly new to Linux)

I don't think there's much chance of an LTS Fedora - that niche is filled
by RHEL / Centos.

It would be nice if Lenovo and Dell offered a choice of distro, but I can
see why they don't.

Better that Lenovo offer an alternative to Ubuntu at least.

Cheers,
Neill

On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 10:06, Brenton Ross via linux <linux at lists.samba.org>
wrote:

> 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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