#FEDORA 27 WORKSTATION TRIAL#

This becomes very awkward when using Fedora's default GNOME configuration as it is hard to switch between open windows quickly, at least without installing an extension.

This means Fedora's GNOME is okay for running one or two programs at a time, but I tend to run eight or nine applications at any given moment.

On Ubuntu we have a dock that acts as a task switcher, making it a suitable environment for multitasking. Two other big differences I felt keenly between Ubuntu and Fedora were with regards to how these two leading projects set up GNOME. Ubuntu's GNOME on Wayland session was smooth and responsive, but Fedora's was too slow for me to use comfortably and I switched over to using the X session for most of my trial. This surprised me as when I ran GNOME's Wayland session on Ubuntu last month, the desktop performed quite a bit better. GNOME on Fedora is sluggish on my systems, both on the desktop computer and in VirtualBox, especially the Wayland session. Most of the complaints I had this week had more to do with GNOME specifically than Fedora as an operating system. These are all small, but notable steps forward for GNOME, LibreOffice and Fedora. I like the new LibreOffice feature which lets us sign and verify documents and I like GNOME's new settings panel. There are some corner cases to address, but GNOME on Wayland has improved a lot in the past year. I am happy to see Wayland is coming along to the point where it is close to on par with the X session.

#FEDORA 27 WORKSTATION TRIAL#

The operating system was stable during my trial and I like that there are several session options, depending on whether we want to use Wayland or the X display server or even a more traditional-looking version of GNOME. On the whole there are several things to like about Fedora 27.

Fedora 27 workstation