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I have a weird mix of emotions re: yesterday's distro-hop from Debian.

Fedora suits me and the way I work down to the ground, and I feel quite bad for ignoring it for the better part of a decade (I settled on Ubuntu around 2009).

However 99.9% of people I recommend it to are going to try it, say "what is this nonsense?!" and then go back to whatever distro they were using.

The other 0.1% are going to say "It's a good distro. I use Arch by the way" 😂

Elad Hen @eladhen

@bobstechsite
I tried several times. It's not for me. GNOME most certainly isn't for me, and the other DEs on Fedora feel like an afterthought. I'll stick to my mix of and ...

@eladhen that's a fair kop.

Since Ubuntu ditched Unity I've been using MATE. But I'm giving Gnome Shell a whirl to see how long I'll tolerate it.

Surprisingly, I haven't grown to loathe it yet. Learning the keyboard shortcuts has helped.

@bobstechsite
I actually find MATE a bit annoying, mostly because editing its panels is a bit of a hassle. These days I like , and , in this order.