[lykron]

Everytime I read posts like this, I think I must be the lucky one. Fedora 25 on my laptop and desktop, and I've had no issues what so ever.

The author's package manager complaints are unfounded. Complaining about yum, and yum being replaced by dnf? C'Mon, software evolves and sometimes you have to do a hard fork.

The complaints about NFS seem to be a backend issue, and not an issue with the client.

[INTPenis]

You're not alone, also proud Fedora user and I just can't understand all the criticism I see towards desktop linux in this thread.

Some people focus on advanced use, 3D editing tools and such. Sure linux is behind commercial distros due to lack of hardware support and of course community development.

But it's still a fantastic movement to produce so many usable distros for nothing at all.

I personally use NFS to stream video at home, and across VPN. The problem is always the connection, for example poor wifi reception and full HD movies don't go together but low res simpsons episodes from the 90s work fine on poor wifi reception.

[IshKebab]

You definitely are the lucky one. I've never installed Linux without issues.

[geezerjay]

> You definitely are the lucky one. I've never installed Linux without issues.

Not at all. I use linux since the early 2000s and I can't recall the last time I had any problem getting a linux install to run out of the box.

In fact, the only problem I could remembered was a wifi card that required ndiswrapper to run, way back in the good old days of Mandrake 10.

Other than that, I recall problems involving flash plugins, and that's that.

Meanwhile, throughout the last decade I've used Mandrake, Fedora, Ubuntu, and Debian as my main OSs. They always worked right out of the box.

That being said, I do buy hardware with linux compatibility in mind. Hardware support does make a difference.

[ageofwant]

I have never installed windows without issues, infuriating soul crushing reboot a million times while downloading random drivers from fishy sites to get some thing working bs issues.

And now you have a next to useless os, with nothing on it. In linux I have a full dev stack within minutes after installing ansible. In windows, the everlasting shitstorm has now moved from category 4 to 5 forecast to last a week of hunting down and installing disjoint tools and frameworks from a plethora of one-hung-lo holes. Hell no. I'll never work in windows shop again, that shit's cray.

[StavrosK]

Huh, really? Except for Apple machines, which are pretty much a lost cause, every other machine I've installed Ubuntu on basically just worked after installation.

[michaelmrose]

Did you buy hardware with linux in mind or buy whatever and hope it would work. The former is a valid strategy the latter is more likely to be an interesting experience.

[lykron]

Don't get me wrong, I've encountered issues before but CentOS 7.2 and Fedora 24/25 have been good to me.

[csydas]

I'm with you on this one, perhaps I just got lucky. Either installs on Apple Hardware or as virtual machines, my linux installs almost always just go and do what I want them to. I think perhaps my use cases are simplistic as most are pretty much just appliance VMs or distros meant for end users (back in the day getting PPC variants of linux to run on old boat-anchor iMacs), but it's never been a headache for me, whereas very smart computer people I know can't seem to get a stable install on older Apple hardware.