{"id":213,"date":"2013-02-18T11:37:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T10:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/?p=213"},"modified":"2013-02-18T11:41:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T10:41:12","slug":"why-i-am-fedup-with-fedora-18-pun-intended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/02\/18\/why-i-am-fedup-with-fedora-18-pun-intended\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I am FedUp with Fedora 18 (Pun intended)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently Fedora 18 has been released. As always I&#8217;m about the first to upgrade my laptop to the latest version to experience the improvements. <\/p>\n<p>This time though, it&#8217;s an incredible LET DOWN. I even consider moving away from Fedora because of this last desvelopment. Being an advanced Linux user I&#8217;m familiar with running Fedora, having to fix things and using workarounds because software is new and not fully developped. But this time it&#8217;s going too far and turning my machine in a nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>In short, I&#8217;ll just sum up the frustrations with this new release:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Screensaver. Lots of times, when unlocking screensaver, it remains a grey screen, for me to have to pres Alt-F2 and run &#8216;r&#8217;, to restart the shell. It just doesn&#8217;t show the desktop.<\/li>\n<li>My mouse wheel stopped working for the one mouse (A vertical mouse by Evoluent). luckily the simple HP mouse wheel still works, but it&#8217;s crap that a mouse that has always worked JUST stops working properly<\/li>\n<li>When I have to switch to a text terminal (eg Ctrl-Alt-F2), I can&#8217;t switch back, coz the screen starts to flicker and the systems becomes unresponsive, no SSH access anymore either<\/li>\n<li>When booting up, my harddisk is luks encrypted and asks for the passphrase. Since the upgrade, this phase TIMES OUT and I have to reboot to get further. WTF, why can&#8217;t the passphrase box be there for eternity, for me to enter it when I get back from wherever I went to, just to continue the boot process?<\/li>\n<li>The add\/remove software application DISAPPEARED. I had to change a .desktop file to show it again. Why would they want to prevent me from adding\/removing software from the gui?<\/li>\n<li>Online accounts &#8211; Google sync doesn&#8217;t work anymore with two-factor authentication. I have to manually change the setting with the keyring manager to get it to work (workaround). Why did it work on F17, but no longer? that&#8217;s weird<\/li>\n<li>I have decided to disable the online accounts in total because it&#8217;s buggy, I have to log in to facebook every time again.<\/li>\n<li>While removing all online accounts, it appears that the msn account is still active (I receive chat messages) while the list of accounts is empty<\/li>\n<li>The blueman package crashes at EVERY startup, and a bug report has been there for ages, but still not resolved.<\/li>\n<li>The gnome desktop comes up with sound muted at every login<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, quite a list already. If there are more things that pop my mind, I&#8217;ll definitely add them to the list. For now, I feel it is counter productive to have F18 on a laptop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently Fedora 18 has been released. As always I&#8217;m about the first to upgrade my laptop to the latest version to experience the improvements. <\/p>\n<p>This time though, it&#8217;s an incredible LET DOWN. I even consider moving away from Fedora because of this last desvelopment. Being an advanced Linux user I&#8217;m familiar with running <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/02\/18\/why-i-am-fedup-with-fedora-18-pun-intended\/\">Why I am FedUp with Fedora 18 (Pun intended)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,33,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoekstra.nu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}