Fedora. About 20 years ago I installed Fedora on my spare PC. I don’t remember the exact date but I can tell you the Fedora version was Yarrow. Yeah, a long time ago.
Anyways, my Fedora Yarrow installation worked great for less than 2 days. One update and I suddenly didn’t have internet. The Fedora maintainers decided to drop the driver for my ethernet card even though that particular hardware had existed for only 3 years. I was furious! WTF are you doing dropping drivers for 3 yo hardware?! Yes I can reinstall the driver but I shouldn’t have needed to. Linux has always had a hardware support problem and they were dropping drivers for hardware that wasn’t even 5 years old.
I’ve ran mostly Debian -based distros since and never had a similar problem. And I know that it’s petty and even silly after all this time but I’m never touching Fedora again.
Fedora. About 20 years ago I installed Fedora on my spare PC. I don’t remember the exact date but I can tell you the Fedora version was Yarrow. Yeah, a long time ago.
Anyways, my Fedora Yarrow installation worked great for less than 2 days. One update and I suddenly didn’t have internet. The Fedora maintainers decided to drop the driver for my ethernet card even though that particular hardware had existed for only 3 years. I was furious! WTF are you doing dropping drivers for 3 yo hardware?! Yes I can reinstall the driver but I shouldn’t have needed to. Linux has always had a hardware support problem and they were dropping drivers for hardware that wasn’t even 5 years old.
I’ve ran mostly Debian -based distros since and never had a similar problem. And I know that it’s petty and even silly after all this time but I’m never touching Fedora again.