Next-gen distro tech
Fedora is Red Hat’s community distro, where new technologies are honed before they make it into their business, meaning Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Fedora was the first distribution to see systemd, Pulseaudio and SELinux (the NSA-contributed access control mechanism). Those titles might send shivers down the spines of some readers, but like them or not they’re here to stay. It’s historically been the best way to experience unadulterated Gnome 3 (stop shuddering you lot). That desktop offers the best Wayland experience, and Fedora was the first to offer Wayland by default (still with the shuddering?). So it’s nothing if not a trailblazer distro.
The latest Fedora 32 even enables Firefox’s new Wayland backend. And if you’re feeling adventurous, follow the guide in our Web Browsers feature (page). Indeed VA-API acceleration, which appeared in Chromium, debuted in Fedora’s build over a year ago. So if Fedora receives new features, smoother browsers, why on earth aren’t you using it?
