Experimenting with Fedora 25 just for fun

Experimenting with Fedora 25 just for fun

Same old, same old - another bugged, untested release

For a long time I have an issue with the releases of Fedora from 14 till 19. They just do not work gracefully with AMD platform's sleep modes. Once Fedora goes to sleep, it either does not want to wake up at all, or wakes up everything but the monitor.

Once I realized that switching from XOrg console to a text console wakes up the monitor, but switching back puts it back into energy saving mode, I found a workaround to the later issue on Fedora 19: pulling out and re-inserting DVI cable wakes up the monitor in XOrg as well.

Just out of curiosity I decided to test and see if this bug has been fixed in the latest releases. Yes, this bug no longer exists. Hurray! But there exists another.

The freshly installed vanilla Fedora 25 never booted into the KDE desktop. It froze in the black (huh?) screen with the KDE logo and the spinning circle underneath. It just sat there after entering the login credentials. I decided to give it a little whack over the head and used the console switching trick. And then the desktop loaded!

This freeze apparently was not specific to KDE spash screen - the panel, desktop and application launcher menu froze upon clicking them until console was switched to text and back.

For a week now I have been faithfully installing every update that became available, but this bug still exists. According to a quick Google search Fedora 25 freezes all the time and for just about everyone. Another piece of turd released by the inept and reluctant "Open source developers" who do not give about their users.

And of course, there are unnecessary, unwanted changes to the worst! The system load viewer applet is not configurable any more. You cannot pick the colors for the CPU and memory bar regions as in the old KDE. The consolidated load viewer mode worked out of the box, but individual CPU cores did not work at all - there was no bars. This last bug has been fixed, but still looking at the entirely blue bars one has no idea how much application, system or nice load is running. Looking at the blue memory bar one has no idea how much memory is used by the applications, or cache. What a jerk is the developer!

The network monitor takes 3x times the space in the panel it used to take. The download and upload graphs are now separate, and the adapter name sits in its own area. Of course, as with all new KDE applets, this one is not configurable. Way to go, twits, all advancements in computing power were in vain and you want the software to become more and more primitive!

To add insult to injury, all functional icons throughout KDE have been re-drawn to something unrecognizable. Looking at the menus I have no idea where the programs are, except of course for Firefox, whose icon comes from an external source. What a bunch of dicks!

Every bloody time, every time there is another Linux distro major release, it is a total SNAFU. And only after about 2-4 months of their bugzillas being swamped with the bug reports, the situation somewhat stabilizes.

Hey, brain dead developers, listen here: stop pumping out gazillions of tons of new functionality that nobody needs, but your sick, twisted imagination. Get your act together and test for another year instead of releasing a half-backed POS. No one is anxiously waiting for you to pump out another version of Linux - everyone who uses Linux for real work is scared shitless of the new bugs you are going to introduce. Everyone with a bit of brain is staying behind several major releases. Stop fucking it up and focus on quality 456!

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