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I absolutely love Fedora now, however I recently got a Macbook Air and had problems with hardware support on Fedora 23. Is 24 any better?

Congrats to the team! Fedora is probably my favorite OS now.

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When did you try 23? It recently also got kernel 4.5, so there might be no differences.

Sorry to be anal but Fedora is a 'distribution' of Linux. Linux is the OS.

Sorry to be anal, but Linux is the kernel, and GNU/Linux is the OS.

Sorry to be anal, but saying "GNU/Linux" devalues the contributions of people who are associated with neither the GNU Project nor the Linux kernel, such as the X.Org team, the Apache team, the Mozilla Firefox team, and so on. The OS as we know it would not exist without a large number of individual teams not captured in the "GNU/Linux" name.

Therefore, the only solution is to metonymically use the name of the kernel as the name of the entire system, which is, happily, common practice anyway.

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