Fedora Linux 40 Officially Released with Kernel 6.8, Gnome 46 & KDE 6
Fedora Linux 40 Officially Released with Kernel 6.8, Gnome 46 & KDE 6
Fedora Linux 40 distribution has been officially released and it's now available for download powered by the latest Linux 6.8 kernel series.
Sadly, DNF5 and the new Anaconda installer didn't make it to the party, in case you were wondering.
Thats a huge release.
- KDE Plasma 6
- KDE and GNOME Wayland only
- testing images for COSIC (well not officially Fedora)
- atomic distros now are less broken (can update grub)
- LUKS screen on the atomic distros now supports non US layout
- Anaconda webUI only on Workstation?
Just finished upgrading, all went smooth and Gnome 46 kicks ass so far. VRR is finally here!
I've worn the same fedora since 79! no need to upgrade to a new cap!
Sadly, DNF5 and the new Anaconda installer didn’t make it to the party, in case you were wondering.
Any word as to why?
Links to the related FESCo items are in https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-Switch-DNF5-Approved but in short, RHEL10 needing to branch off Fedora 40.
I was really hoping for dnf5
Had the Gnome/Workstation variant beta installed on my laptop for a while with zero issues. Looking forward to updating my desktop too.
Next update should be massive. DNF5 to come, the new installer, loads of the Sovereign Tech Fund improvements to things like accessibility, security, the display stack, etc.
I looked at the agreed changes for 41 but couldn't see any accessibility. Do you know what changes are coming?
They often talk about accessibility plans and changes on Planet GNOME. No idea what is coming though.
Fedora should be the default distro we recommend to beginners. Everything just works despite being up-to-date unlike Ubuntu. Still waiting for DNF5, though.
Flatpaks never worked for me though, last I tried was 38.
Also didn't something happen in relation to some encoding?
Pop!_OS would be my recommendation, semi-rolling for sweet driver updates, Ubuntu based for easy searching (how to do x on Ubuntu) and Large software support.
I just remembered that Pop!_OS doesn't ship with vanilla gnome, sadly, which degrades its position as a recommendation.
For me, for some packages, only the RPM works, and others only the flatpak works, and yet others still both work, or none. Seems highly dependant on something but tbh I'm too new to know if it's the packages themselves, something to do with dependencies, hardware, or whatever else.
I'll check out the KDE flavour
Anyone tried the KDE variant with nvidia?
Not on fedora, but on Neon with a 3070. KDE 6 will lock up on Xorg, while electron apps will flash on Wayland, though there is a flag to enable Wayland support, it keeps dropping off of discord every time it updates. Running nvidia 550 proprietary, haven't gotten to use the open ones yet as I need cuda for work
Nobara 39 (Fedora spin) is amazing with KDE, 2080ti.
Running 39 with Nvidia working mostly fine with official driver guide and a few GRUB hacks. Sleep-mode has been acting up though in the last days ...
I have updated my existing installation of fedora 39 kde to 40 and the nvidia kernel module didn't load properly so nouveau was used instead, than I have redone the setup for the dmks because it wasn't present in the config file to load it and everything worked fine for now. Anyway on fedora 40 you need to install xorg yourself
Super exciting stuff and more on the way
Most of my widgets and latte dock don't work on latte dock don't work on plasma 6, so just know that you won't have that if you're planning to upgrade.
I just tried it in a VM, and it had me jump through some hoops for flatpaks to work. Not ideal for newbies