* Posts by Matthew Booth

2 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Sep 2014

Fedora 41 beta arrives, neck-and-neck with Ubuntu – but with a different focus

Matthew Booth

"We've heard from several Fedora users that they simply wipe and reinstall every year or so."

I personally know literally hundreds of Fedora users, and I don't know anybody who does this. I have no doubt there are some, and that they told you about it, but version-to-version upgrades are still very much normal, extremely well tested, and reassuringly boring.

'Windows 9' LEAK: Microsoft's playing catchup with Linux

Matthew Booth

This Linux user thinks it looks good (genuinely)

I was using multiple workspaces on Linux in the mid 90s. However, just because a feature has been available on platform X for a long time, doesn't mean it's well implemented. Case in point: I'm currently reading El Reg on my Gnome 3 desktop and I have 5 workspaces configured. However, I almost never use them because the implementation is so poor. I used them in Gnome 2 and fvwm vastly more. At first glance, this Windows implementation of workspaces looks considerably better than anything I have used in Linux. It's still innovation if you take somebody else's idea and make it better. And as for workspaces on a spinning cube: please! I had that configured for a few weeks when it first came out because I'm a nerd and you just have to. Then I switched it off because it's stupid and a total distraction.

TL;DR The 'Linux has had this for years' argument is specious. Fair play to Microsoft for improving their product, regardless of where they got their inspiration. I look forward to giving it a go.