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  • My dad has an old Makita cordless drill from 1995 which he used for everything from assembling Ikea furniture to drilling holes in cement walls. Complete metal innards, full metal case, battery that’s big and heavy enough to bludgeon somebody to death with.

    Until one day I bought a fancy new Bosch cordless screwdriver with Li-ion battery, brushless motor and 1/4 the size and weight of the Makita.

    At first he laughed at me for buying a toy, then he tried it. He ordered one as well the week after and uses it pretty much exclusively since then.

    Still keeps the Makita box and drill around purely for the retro look but even with fresh batteries the amount of torque they put out is not even in the same league.

    Obviously that is the exception rather than the rule and most technological advances went into making companies more profits instead of building better products, but there are some advancements that made power tools better. Li-ion batteries and brushless motors being two of the big ones.












  • It caters to a middle ground that barely exists, meaning it doesn’t have enough options for a power user and too many for a newcomer.

    For example, a newcomer doesn’t know what a root account is and doesn’t have to care, yet they have to choose if they want to enable or disable the account. They can also remove their administrator privileges without knowing what it means for them. I get asked what a root account is every time somebody around me tries to install Fedora.

    I recommend spinning up a Ubuntu 24.04 VM and taking a look at their installer.

    They have a clear structure on how to install Ubuntu step by step while Fedora presents you everything at once. They properly hide the advanced stuff and only show it when asked for it. They have clear toggles for third party software right at the installer and explain what they do. Fedora doesn’t even give you the option to install H264 codecs or Nvidia drivers.

    It also looks a lot cleaner and doesn’t overload people with too much info on a single screen. And yet it can still do stuff like automated installing and has active directory integration out of the box, where the Fedora installer miserably fails for a “Workstation” distro.

    The Fedora installer works, but it doesn’t do much more than that and the others do it better in many areas.


  • Long-time Fedora user here. I do not think Fedora is noob friendly at all.

    • Their installer is awful
    • Their spins are really well hidden for people who don’t know they exist
    • The Nvidia drivers can’t be installed via the GUI
    • There’s no “third party drivers” tool at all
    • The regular Flathub repo is not the default and their own repo is absolutely useless
    • AMD/Intel GPUs lack hardware acceleration for H264 and H265 out of the box, adding them requires the console
    • Their packages are consistently named differently than their Ubuntu/Debian counterpart

    I really like Fedora for their newish packages without breaking constantly. I still would not recommend it for beginners.