I recently set my computer to dual boot Fedora after deciding to move on from Ubuntu. Any GNU/Linux users here that have played with it before? I know I've discussed it some with the people like forwardslash, organicAnt, and maybe even minimum_wage
Oddly enough I too have been recently look for alternatives to Ubuntu. I haven't even upgraded to 13.10 because I know it will destroy my install. Unfortunately I've never tried out Fedora, though I thought about using CentOS as a desktop in order to better understand it if I have to use it as a server OS (as it's quite popular). How has Fedora been working for you?
I'm really loving Fedora. I hadn't played with yum too much in the past, but I have used Mercurial and this is a little nicer. The GNOME desktop is really clean and I enjoy how smoothly everything comes together. As a whole it's not a massive burden on my computer and runs quickly, and it's a lot less clunky than things I've used previously, especially Ubuntu. It can be really stripped down or built up without much effort in either direction.
For me the golden age of computing has passed. Fedora 8 (Or Seven, I can't remember) had this beautiful background that changed to show the time of day. I used to be able to guess down the hour what time it was from that, and I haven't found a replacement.
I used to have a script that projected an image of the current cloud cover and sun cover on a map of the earth for my background (updated every hour). At one point I even set up a terminal to be embedded in the background with a matrix-like screen saver. That one ate my CPU though.
I'd be interested in learning a bit more about Fedora too. I've always been interested in giving Fedora a try but it's just never been at the top of my list. I run Debian on my desktop and - as of Wednesday - I'm running Elementary OS on my laptop (ThinkPad X1 Carbon).