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I use Fedora KDE as my homeserver, because it is my media center too. That's the reason for the desktop.
Cons for me:
First I struggled with firewalld, it is more challenging than UFW. I removed it, because my router does the job.
Second SELinux is very annoying at the beginning. You install samba and vsftp and it will not work until you set permissions for SELinux.
SELinux is complicated for the start. Documentation is not very helpful for this imo. It works now. If you want to have an easy way, you can set it to permissive mode. I kept it running.
Pros for Fedora has actual software and I really love DNF 🥰
Thanks for sharing.
Can't you just turn off SELinux?
Yes you can but you don't learn a thing from this. A good choice would be permissive mode. You get the warnings, but it works anyway
People use Linux for things other than learning.