I just bought a Lenovo T510 with an Nvidia video card. I installed F13-beta on it a couple of weeks ago. It was magical.

- Video card works out of the box using the nouveau driver. I just yum install'ed mesa-dri-drivers-experimental to get 3D desktop. All free software, no proprietary drivers. - SUSPEND WORKS OOTB! - Skype video and audio work flawlessly (installation still a pain on x64, though. But that's skype's fault). - Webcam works out of the box. - Flash works in chrome without issue (installation not automatic, but this is fedora)

The auto installation of print drivers failed for me, but at least the framework is in place to improve this in the future. I imagine it will get fixed soon.

Yes, you can make jokes about a linux fanboy being impressed with things that Mac/Windows have had working for years. But Fedora (and Ubuntu) are making demonstrable, regular improvements. The desktop experience has dramatically improved in just a couple of years. What will things look like in another two years?

I find myself frustrated by Ubuntu's packaging system. I really like Arch Linux, because I can do pacman -S ruby, and I have everything I need. Including a working Ruby Gems that I can use to update itself. And a copy of the latest Ruby 1.9, without having to change symlinks, etc.

I find myself hating the fact that I have to configure everything manually though, I don't mind using Gnome, or KDE, I just really like pacman. Configuring fonts it's just not my idea of fun. Is there any chance that I would be more satisfied with Fedora's packaging? I'm going to throw it in a virtualbox to check it out, just wondering if anyone has had a similar experience?

First thing that stood out to me: they still need better fonts. That Wikipedia screenshot makes me cringe.

Any videos of the Gnome Shell? Their vimeo link had 0 videos uploaded.

It's quite sad that this promo page doesn't mention KDE (spin, SIG, anything) even at least once.