For many Linux users, Korora, dropping an "a" from it's name last year, is to Fedora what Linux Mint is to Ubuntu. Is it really true? Why I am saying this because Linux Mint not only packages Ubuntu in a user-friendly fashion and just makes it work - in my tests, it actually outperformed Ubuntu. With a comprehensive collection of performance statistics from my evaluations last year, this year let me review the first big release of 2014 with a comprehensive assessment of Korora to check if it is able to outperform it's mother distro - Fedora.
Korora 20 is based on Fedora 20 released recently and like Fedora, it ships with Linux kernel 3.12. Korora 20 provides options to users for KDE, GNOME, Cinnamon, Mate and XFCE spins. I downloaded the KDE spin, about 2.3 GB in size, for this review. It has KDE 4.11.5 pre-installed along with a host of ready to use utility softwares.
I used my Asus K55VM laptop with 2.3 Ghz Core i3 3rd generation processor, 8 GB DDR3 RAM and 2 GB NVIDIA GeForce 630M hybrid graphics. I created a live USB using Mint Image Writer and first did a live boot followed by installation. Post installation it got upgraded to Kernel 3.12.7 and I installed KDE 4.12.1 along with Bumblebee for Nvidia hybrid graphics. In sections below I take you through my experience with using Korora for a week.
