Alan Cox: Fedora 18 "The Worst Red Hat Distro," Switches To Ubuntu

An anonymous reader writes "Linux kernel developer veteran Alan Cox has lashed out at Red Hat's recent release of Fedora 18. Cox posted comments to his Google+ page saying 'Fedora 18 seems to be the worst Red Hat distro I've ever seen.' He encountered numerous problems with Fedora 18 and then decided to switch to Ubuntu."

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Re:forgot RH7

[hairyfeet]

FUD. Win 7 will ALWAYS look as if its installed to the C: drive to applications, even if it is not. I have mine installed to D: because I have XP on C: for a couple of old audio editing programs that don't like 64 bit and when I'm in Win 7 it says its on the C: drive, when I'm in XP it says its on the C: drive, so as far as the applications are concerned I have 2 drives that are each labeled C: instead of 2 partitions. It actually works wonderfully, the only catch is those older programs that would use a hidden partition to back up changes to the file system (Norton GoBack, Comodo Time Machine) naturally don't work since it can't take over the partition.

So if you want to bitch about Win 7 at least bitch about things Joe and Jane Normal would run into, such as how WMC can be slow to load when you have a lot of movies in your library as it insists on loading the metadata from scratch instead of keeping a metadata table and simply comparing the table with the library, or how Explorer sometimes can't make up its mind and will have a single click on a file just load file attributes while other times a single click on a file will load the attributes AND suddenly shoot the file to the far left pane of the explorer window which can be quite jarring when you are in the middle of dealing with a bunch of files.