The main reason is Fedora has standards for some stability that COSMIC simply can't meet on time.
theshatterstone54
joined 2 years ago
+1 on Tiny11 and you can make your iso through winutil too, making it easier.
Not THAT far. But 32GB RAM is getting more common, though I haven't heard of many people using 64, let alone more than that.
Also, storage is usually not that extreme, though multiple terabytes are also getting more common on the higher end.
Just this month, I upgraded to 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD so it isn't that extreme for most people.
CPU and GPU - wise, most people aren't running the best of the best, and there are still plenty of people using 10-series Nvidia GPUs, with most people seemingly using 20-series or 30-series GPUs, (and usually not the best cards for these generations)
Here's my advice for Installing Windows:
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When getting an ISO from M$, select "English International" even if you're in the US, to avoid a lot of bloatware.
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Use Chris Titus' Winutil. It's open source and really easy to use.
Yup. Though it's really a "fork" of a Bulgarian folk song.
I just use GPT4All
Basest of Based.
Personally, I try to mainly use locally hosted Open Source LLMs, and mostly for research purposes.
I'm a sailor of the seven seas, so I don't want any of them, but I wish you and anyone reading this a Merry Christmas!
In terms of usability, it certainly can be. It's a UNIX system, and you can easily set up a tiling WM and get an experience similar to Linux, with homebrew, neovim, terminals, etc.
You're also not dealing with the typical adware from Windows.
In my experience, these 2 are the endgame for distrohoppers. You either end on Tumbleweed or on Fedora. I ended up on Fedora personally, but they are both great in tgeir own ways.
By "the endgame", I mean that's what ends their distrohopping.
I was playing with COSMIC on Fedora since mid-May, or around 3 months before the first alpha. It's been pretty solid for me though there are still bugs and missing features. I see why they'd want it for F42, but I'm just not sure if System76 can have Epoch 1 released in time for that. They still have Alpha 5 by the end of December, Alpha 6 planned for the end of January, and maybe 2 or 3 betas before release. So We could only have Epoch 1 (first full release) End of March (or even later), which I'd say would leave too little time for extensive testing to meet Fedora's standards. Just because I've barely had issues on my fairly standard setup doesn't mean that others haven't been plagued by issues. So my take on it is I want it to happen, but I'm not sure if it can happen for F42, so maybe the contingency plan to delay to F43 might be a better idea, but ultimately only time will tell.
Regardless, the maintainers doing the Spin proposal have said they will only release the spin when COSMIC gets a full release. And COSMIC is very much Alpha quality software still.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FedoraCOSMIC
They expect it to "reach maturity" so likely when Beta 1 is released at the earliest.
Edit: I would expect the timeline to look as follows:
End of Jan: Alpha 5
End of Feb: Alpha 6
End of Mar: Alpha 7 or Beta 1
End of Apr: Beta 1 or Beta 2
End of May: Beta 2 or Beta 3 or Release
End of Jun: Beta 3 or Release
End of Jul: Release Epoch 1 or Alpha 1 for Epoch 2 (seeing as they said they want to release Epoch 2 in the same year i.e this year)