So I decided to stop duel booting with Windows and Fedora and install Fedora 17 as my primary and only operating system. Its been two weeks now, and after convincing myself that I do not need the Windows operating system I so far have had a good experience. Here is how it went.
My first issue I had is the fact that Fedora installed and used my hard drive as an LVM partition. I thought it would be a good idea to have an extra partition for storage of stuff I do not want to loose when installing a new version of an operating system, as need to be regularly done in the Linux world. Well I so far found that to partition an LVM partition consists of a lot of effort and none of the instructions on how to is very good. Gparted does not do LVM partitions so for now I am stuck on one hard drive main partition until I figure this out.
I had trouble configuring evolution and Thunderbird to my ZOHO mail account. If anyone can figure this out please inform me as well. Leave a comment or send me a mail. I removed evolution and use Thunderbird as my main email program.
I am having problems setting up my scanner, this will be a challenge but I will sort it out.
On the positive side, I am rewarded with a very fast and responsive computer. And I love it. All my hardware including my Epson printer is working fine.
Fedora 17 feels much better that 16 as it did not do a good job in the booting and got itself confused when I tried to login. I think Fedora is not a very good neighbour with other operating systems on the same PC. Ubuntu and Opensuse gave me a much better duel boot experience. That is in my experience in the last 5 years at least.
After a flash and Java plugin installation the browser is fine. I am still struggling with the non free media codecs but VLC is a good enough solution. I never liked rhythmbox anyway, so I just removed it.
I was pleased to discover E-sword works fine on wine as it is really miles ahead of its open source cousins. Especially the functionality offered by its extensions.
Overall I am happy with my Fedora box and I really congratulate the Fedora community on a job well done. Keep up the good work.
I got the Thunderbird and Zoho mail issue sorted out today. Works nice and I am happy with it. If I cannot solve the partitioning problem I will do the formatting when I do the next install and will have to use an external.
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