Project: Moving main laptop to Korora 25 Desktop

@JaredBusch said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:

I did Korora 25 Cinnamon...on my laptop, a MacBook Pro, last night.

Both worked fine.

Is this a dual boot with OSX?

No. I told the Korora installer to reclaim all space.

JaredBusch

@FATeknollogee said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:

@JaredBusch said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
...month ago and on my laptop, a MacBook Pro, last night.

Fed 25 installed bare metal on the MacBook Pro?

Well, the Korora 25 Cinnamon distro of Fedora 25, but yes.

FATeknollogee

@JaredBusch said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:

No. I told the Korora installer to reclaim all space.

You went all in!
Looks like I'm going to head down that same path. I'm backing up my MackBook Pro now.

JaredBusch

@FATeknollogee said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:

@JaredBusch said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:

No. I told the Korora installer to reclaim all space.

You went all in!
Looks like I'm going to head down that same path. I'm backing up my MackBook Pro now.

I can always do it again and recover macOS from a network recovery boot or from a time machine boot.

Nothing existed solely on my laptop anyway.

Obsolesce

I just finished putting Win10 back on. Fresh install, 1703 iso from Microsoft. Everything just gracefully worked and is working as intended, went smooth, not a single hiccup.

Barely anything was working right with both Fedora and Korora, not even the PlayOnLinux stuff for other games. I'll run Fedora or Korora on my work computer all day every day forever... it's the most wonderful thing ever. But for my personal home laptop use, no thanks.

I couldn't reboot or shutdown gracefully.

Also, the Steam games I do play, not compatible on that "Platform" anyways. OneDrive was weird. I'm forced to use Gnome3... only one I could get working. Just too many things to list.

I don't know, maybe if I had weeks and a lot of time to tinker with it, I would have kept it and been able to fix all of the issues. But I just don't.

black3dynamite

@Tim_G Sorry to here that. If you are willing, try out Fedora 26 Alpha. Its possible you might need a more recent kernel.

Obsolesce

@black3dynamite said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:

@Tim_G Sorry to here that. If you are willing, try out Fedora 26 Alpha. Its possible you might need a more recent kernel.

I'll try it out in a dual-boot fashion when I have more time. By then 26 should be out of alpha. We'll see.

I still have it on my main work computer as a daily driver, so it's not like I'm missing out.

matteo nunziati

TBH I've got relatively good experince only on high end gear with laptops: my thinkpad t440 works really smooth with debian on it - since day 0! Anyway power management still is a bit of PITA.

mid-low range: never got full system capabilities, too much windows-only-in-mind design (including non standard ACPI implementations in bios). My previous ASUS barebone was almost perfect but the previous acer was a FULL PITA.

FATeknollogee

@Tim_G Seems like your Korora/Fedora install issues are all hardware related?

Last night, I downloaded MediaWriter & installed Korora on my 2015 MacBook Pro...not a single problem with the install.

I'm in the process of using @Tim_G post to do all the updates & add virtualization.

scottalanmiller

@JaredBusch said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:

Also, didn't @scottalanmiller have problems with the Fedora/RHEL family on his?

Yeah, would not install at all. Different model, though. Mint wouldn't work either. But Ubuntu standard was fine.

Obsolesce

Yeah I know its just my hardware. Its working perfectly fine on my work computer and laptop. That's the whole reason I wanted to make the switch on my personal laptop, because it was working so damn well on those.

Turns out a Fedora distro doesn't like my hardware and I don't have the time to make it work.

I'll probably dual boot later and try straight debian or Ubuntu. Might have better luck with one of those.

matteo nunziati

@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:

Yeah I know its just my hardware. Its working perfectly fine on my work computer and laptop. That's the whole reason I wanted to make the switch on my personal laptop, because it was working so damn well on those.

Turns out a Fedora distro doesn't like my hardware and I don't have the time to make it work.

I'll probably dual boot later and try straight debian or Ubuntu. Might have better luck with one of those.

If hw is an issue go ubuntu. Debian is more picky

Obsolesce

@matteo-nunziati said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:

@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:

Yeah I know its just my hardware. Its working perfectly fine on my work computer and laptop. That's the whole reason I wanted to make the switch on my personal laptop, because it was working so damn well on those.

Turns out a Fedora distro doesn't like my hardware and I don't have the time to make it work.

I'll probably dual boot later and try straight debian or Ubuntu. Might have better luck with one of those.

If hw is an issue go ubuntu. Debian is more picky

Yeah I will try Ubuntu just to have something that works. I wish I could use my distro of choice though. But I guess if there were hundreds of current versions of Windows none of them would work as great with most hardware either. So I understand the small support scenario.

I'll dual boot with likely Ubuntu until I get Ubuntu 100% working as needed. Then I'll just blow away tje Windows partitions and extend Ubuntu.