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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Just wanted to say I made the switch yesterday from Windows 11 to Fedora Linux, no dual booting. It took multiple installs though because the first two times I followed old instructions for installing the Nvidia drivers. The third time I found out that I can just install them through the software center when third party repositories are enabled and that worked like a breeze.

And I have to say it's a really good thing that the installer for Fedora is getting an overhaul soon because Anaconda is horribly confusing in its UX.

Edit: just wanted to add a hyfetch screenshot:

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This, and they also generally don't require a reboot. Especially with the dnf method.
I dunno why the software center forces you to reboot for updates, but it's typically unnecessary.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There's two different ways to update modern Linux system, either you apply the updates directly or you wait until the next reboot to apply them.

Fedora KDE allows you to choose which method you want to use when using the software center UI:

I dunno why the software center forces you to reboot for updates

Because it's more stable.

The big drawback of updating immediately is that you might end up with incompatible packages. Any application that is running while an update for it is installed will keep using the old version until the application is restarted or the system is rebooted. The kernel and some system applications never exit, that means that they will keep using the old version until you reboot.