A short rant about Fedora:

Sorry Fedora, you've lost me. 

I've been a linux devotee since around '93 or so, my first install was the SLS linux distro from a stack 'o floppies downloaded painfully via modem.  I've been a professional sysadmin specializing mostly in linux (with some other unix flavors) for about a decade and a half now.

Ergo, I've gotten very familiar with lots of different linux setups.

Unfortunately, though, fedora is moving sharply away from what I considered to be one of the best features of linux and unix like os's overall: discoverability.

Don't know where something is configured?  A "grep -R" or "find . -type f | xargs grep" has a very high likelyhood of finding it.  Once you get a hit, then you have some context you can use in a "man -k" or google search.  Voila, one more configuration issue solved.

Unfortunately, with the sharp turn toward opaque tools (journal, systemd, network-manager) fedora is breaking away from this, and sadly the rest of linux land appears to be following. 

I always rather despised having to use special tools to find errors in windows (event viewer), now I have to do the same in fedora (journalWhateverTheHeckItsNamed).  I hate not having the system config and startup in a an obvious, known, transparent and readable location (what, /etc/rc.d/init.d/ is empty?!  Blargh, I hate having to find, and then try to read XML.)  Whups -- I need to do something slightly out of the 'standard' laptop network setup, like a static IP and a bridge for a VM setup, uh, where do I configure that again?  Oh, my system moved and needs to be renamed, uh, where is that at?

Sure change is good, yadda yadda.   Transparency, though, is better.

-- Pat

p.s. and da** solaris for doing the same, but earlier and worse.  Can't even edit /etc/nsswitch.conf on sol 11 anymore ...