Quick Review of Fedora 17: Beefy Miracle

I just downloaded and ran the LiveCD of Beefy Miracle, Fedora’s most recent release.

Likes:

1. Japanese input methods and fonts come preinstalled.
2. Accessibility features available.
3. Generally polished interface
4. Feels mature finally.

Dislikes:

1. Stuck with fallback mode on unsupported video cards
2. Touch screen design for use on non-touch devices is stupid.
3. Lack of configuration options, right clicking on the wallpaper and panels does nothing.  There’s no way to change the default window manager theme which is over-sized and made for fingers not cursors.