People behind Fedora, it's time to think about what you're doing, because you've ended up with results comparable to Windows 11.
Since when has Fedora acted like Windows, and why doesn't it allow me to use the OS during an update? Arch Linux, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, and Void Linux simply download packages, install them, and then I decide when it's a good time to reboot, and it's done. The job takes 30 seconds to 5 minutes, tested on the laptop in the photo, yes, but a Fedora release upgrade runs for more than 15 minutes?! That's comparable to Windows 11.
I spent 1 hour and 30 minutes figuring out how to update from 42 to 43 (I didn't count the wasted time staring at the text "Do not turn off your computer"). After I removed 32-bit Wine, which I have no idea why I had installed on my system and also no idea why it prevented the entire OS from updating, I received this as a reward?
I have no idea what the point of Fedora's existence as a distro is, because the time spent fixing this to do a simple update was longer than all the time I spent in 2025 fixing my CachyOS (Arch Linux) installation with secure boot – manually enrolled own keys.
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