I really loved their installer before, but the new one has a repair install button.
Messing with things last night this morning I found my computer wouldn’t boot into Fedora. Could I have troubleshot it, but I didn’t want to on my day off. Decide to give it a try and within 15 minutes I was back into my OS.
My only complaint about it is I wish it automatically reinstalled all the flatpaks I was using, sure going in and putting them back is not hard, but it seems that would be viable without risking breaking the system again.
would be even better if Fedora would do snapshots after each update and put them into GRUB like SUSE does.
Actually setting up BTRFS (default on Fedora, which is great!) for snapper would have been the better option for everyone involved. So everyone can boot into the OS that ran fine yesterday without reinstalling ,repairing stuff or developing repair installation feature in the first place.
If you make it so simple that there aren’t anything to change or tweak and just some checkbox to enrypt the disk…might as well do an autoinstaller, saves clicks and is faster. Locale can be set by post-install stuff.
Yeah if you can’t tell the installer to do the basics of basic things for you, you gotta configure the stuff all my yourself. Like y’know, sshd, hostname, networking, installed software selection, setup root account, etc…the basic stuff you may or not may want to do.
edit: and “critical update” available…yeah, why not update during install right away and sync the repos before dumping the user into a system with “critical updates” needed.
I’m not impressed by the new installer.
And the opt-out data tracking and location service seems like the new normal.
edit: still no ZFS option. Ubuntu has ZFS option, SUSE has the full snapshot package as default with BTRFS. Fedora has…location services (and a pretty and well done GNOME DE).
Having ran root on ZFS it was very much not ideal, i run ZFS for my storage drives, but even then I sometimes think maybe i should switch to something actually able to be merged into the kernel.
I don’t recall any location or data tracking questions in the Fedora Installer, there is in the gnome initial setup.
I do like Silverblue I have tried running it as my main OS on a few occasions for my work PC missing minicom is like the worst thing maybe running that in flatpak will be possible at some point.
Fedora tracks the latest stable kernel relatively closely so ZFS is not an option as long is it isn’t mainlined. There are ZFS repos if you can stay on the LTS kernel instead.
I agree on the btrfs criticism though. It’s been the default for ages now but almost none of the perks are there out of the box.