What’s new for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 40
What’s new for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 40
Fedora 40 has been released! 🎉 So let’s see what comes in this new release for the Fedora Atomic Desktops variants (Silverblue, Kinoite, Sway Atomic and Onyx Atomic).
Reading through that article I somehow ended up on the bazzite page and then went down a rabithole learning about the system76 scheduler. Just when I thought I'd settled down now I want to switch to bazzite to try out the system76 scheduler.
But I'm not sure what's better for overall performance. Bazzites modifications or glorious eggrolls modifications.
Performance wise, I doubt there's notable difference.
I've tried both, and honestly Bazzite OS is on a league of it's own.
Nobara has updates with breaking changes that require manual steps to avoid bricking your installation.
Bazzite on the other hand immutability makes it a freaking indestructible distro, and for a gaming machine, that is a good thing.
Bazzite's CI/CD automated builds helps them release upstream improvements way faster, for example... they are already on Fedora 40.
It also comes ready to go out of the box. The experience is amazing. The only drawback is having to reboot to apply changes to the system. But the many benefits outweight this inconvenience.
Yes thats difficult for sure. I would trust bazzite more, as the distribution model is way more stable.
Yes I think their scheduler is nice? I mean you can just layer and enable it on any variant. Checkout ublues files.
Link gives me a 404
Strange, maybe he is overhauling the post
A friend switched to Linux yesterday on a new build and grabbed the kde spin of fedora at my recommendation. Fedora 40 dropped x11 on kde so there's been a good bit more hassle getting things working than there should have been. Hopefully developers move fast on support.
What do you mean? Just use Wayland?
Discord screen share isn't working, I think screen recording wasn't working, she had some issues getting steam to not crash. We both use input leap at work so waiting until 6.1 for that support to hit. Just a bit annoying to get rug pulled. We both use fedora 38 on our work machines so there was an expectation that things would work the same, I think it's overall a good change in the long run, but in the moment it's very disruptive.
You probably know this already, but X11 hasn't been dropped completely. You can still install what you need from the distros, and then the X11 option will be present and correct in SDDM.
sudo dnf install kwin-x11 plasma-workspace-x11
Actually, I didn't know that and figured it out yesterday. Thanks for the tip!
I love to see the progress Fedora Atomic Desktops is making. I switched to Fedora Kinoite from Windows and it has been the most stable Linux experience I have ever had. Updating to Fedora 40 was as easy as checking out another git branch. When I installed Linux I wasn't expecting to stay with it for very long because I had some bad experiences with it in the past. As of now, I haven't had the need to boot into Windows since switching to Fedora five months ago.
Actually recently I learned if you rebase to
latestinstead of40(at least if you are using OSTree native container images like ublue) you dont need to upgrade anymore, that is decided upstream.Agree on the stability completely, distrohopped a ton before and everything just broke.
I am working on a CentOS Desktop image set currently, first time doing that but will be pretty cool. Atomic CentOS Stream, to have a superstable system.
Well, I'm such an old ass for preferring X11 still, but fuck NVIDIA anyway.
NVIDIA and Wayland are supposedly fixed in recent releases with explicit sync
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Nice read.Thanks.