<story><title>Fedora 26 released</title><url>https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-26-is-here/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmnicolas</author><text>Please don&amp;#x27;t do this to yourself : I tried Fedora 25 KDE a few weeks ago and it was the buggiest POS I ever ran on my PC. Just customizing the taskbar gave me a black screen that even a reboot didn&amp;#x27;t solve.&lt;p&gt;For the record Fedora Gnome was rock stable on the same machine. The only reason I didn&amp;#x27;t keep it is that I need what I call a &amp;#x27;pinnable taskbar&amp;#x27; (like Windows 7).&lt;p&gt;If you really want KDE you could try KDE Neon, still a bit buggy for my taste but at least it&amp;#x27;s usable.&lt;p&gt;After a few more distros I settled on Mint Cinnamon. Not bad but frankly I miss Windows.</text></item><item><author>reitanqild</author><text>I would have worded this a bit different than you did.&lt;p&gt;But I too have shyed away from fedora the last few years.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m primarily a KDE user but I guess now is a good time to try fedora again if I get some time. (On my test vm now: latest Ubuntu with gnome. Also hoping to give solus&amp;#x2F;budgie a little more time.)</text></item><item><author>api</author><text>I used Fedora years ago at 19 and 20 and it was great then. It worked and... Worked. The desktop came with sane defaults. It... Worked.</text></item><item><author>danieldk</author><text>I am mainly a macOS user, but I keep around a Dell workstation for work that needs a lot of memory or cores. After years of primarily running Debian and Ubuntu, I switched the machine to Fedora 25 and upgraded to Fedora 26 during the beta cycle.&lt;p&gt;I was surprised how good Fedora is these days. The GNOME desktop is buttery smooth with Wayland and the Nouveau drivers on the relatively old Quadro that the machine has. Audio and suspend&amp;#x2F;resume worked out-of-the-box without any problems. Upgrades are very fast thanks to DNF and delta RPMs. Software also seems to get minor release updates within a release (e.g., I had some vim updates).&lt;p&gt;The Fedora installer also put &amp;#x2F; on a separate btrfs subvolume as it should (Ubuntu didn&amp;#x27;t do that in 16.04, not sure if they fixed that).&lt;p&gt;Great work Fedora folks!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yrio</author><text>Other than the &amp;quot;Dash to Panel&amp;quot; extension mentioned by another user, you can also use the &amp;quot;Dash to Dock&amp;quot; extension to get pinnable taskbar (can be set to always visible &amp;#x2F; auto hide).&lt;p&gt;I no longer use them though (to get more screen space)</text></comment>
<story><title>Fedora 26 released</title><url>https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-26-is-here/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmnicolas</author><text>Please don&amp;#x27;t do this to yourself : I tried Fedora 25 KDE a few weeks ago and it was the buggiest POS I ever ran on my PC. Just customizing the taskbar gave me a black screen that even a reboot didn&amp;#x27;t solve.&lt;p&gt;For the record Fedora Gnome was rock stable on the same machine. The only reason I didn&amp;#x27;t keep it is that I need what I call a &amp;#x27;pinnable taskbar&amp;#x27; (like Windows 7).&lt;p&gt;If you really want KDE you could try KDE Neon, still a bit buggy for my taste but at least it&amp;#x27;s usable.&lt;p&gt;After a few more distros I settled on Mint Cinnamon. Not bad but frankly I miss Windows.</text></item><item><author>reitanqild</author><text>I would have worded this a bit different than you did.&lt;p&gt;But I too have shyed away from fedora the last few years.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m primarily a KDE user but I guess now is a good time to try fedora again if I get some time. (On my test vm now: latest Ubuntu with gnome. Also hoping to give solus&amp;#x2F;budgie a little more time.)</text></item><item><author>api</author><text>I used Fedora years ago at 19 and 20 and it was great then. It worked and... Worked. The desktop came with sane defaults. It... Worked.</text></item><item><author>danieldk</author><text>I am mainly a macOS user, but I keep around a Dell workstation for work that needs a lot of memory or cores. After years of primarily running Debian and Ubuntu, I switched the machine to Fedora 25 and upgraded to Fedora 26 during the beta cycle.&lt;p&gt;I was surprised how good Fedora is these days. The GNOME desktop is buttery smooth with Wayland and the Nouveau drivers on the relatively old Quadro that the machine has. Audio and suspend&amp;#x2F;resume worked out-of-the-box without any problems. Upgrades are very fast thanks to DNF and delta RPMs. Software also seems to get minor release updates within a release (e.g., I had some vim updates).&lt;p&gt;The Fedora installer also put &amp;#x2F; on a separate btrfs subvolume as it should (Ubuntu didn&amp;#x27;t do that in 16.04, not sure if they fixed that).&lt;p&gt;Great work Fedora folks!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jburgess777</author><text>I have used Fedora + KDE for the past 5 years. Yes there are occasional issues but they are normally common to all distros which happen to use the same combination of components.&lt;p&gt;For me, I ran into a regression with compositing: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugs.kde.org&amp;#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=354146&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugs.kde.org&amp;#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=354146&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;After I disabled the desktop effects Fedora 25 was rock solid.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t upgraded to F26, I normally wait a week or two to shake out any big issues.</text></comment>