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  • Absolutely. It broke any leftover intention of ever trying Ubuntu again.

    • I tried Ubuntu recently out of curiously. It was buggy, slow and contained a lot of promotional material. For context, I hadn't used it since a wipe my machine after they forced snap.

  • I have had a LOT of issues, but they're mostly of the papercut variety - and most of them have to do with Plasma 6 rather than Fedora 40 itself (at least I think so).

    I think my CPU is running hotter on 40 than it was on 39, though.

    • Yeah nearly all Fedora KDE issues are direct upstream Plasma issues. And not too many, tried Plasma 6 on Kinoite Rawhide for a while and reported a lot of them.

      You can do the same with COSMIC and help make their release better!

    • That doesn't sound promising, though I am using Gnome, so at least my DE is not getting the biggest upgrade :)

      • Yeah, Gnome 46 has been a really solid, small upgrade in my experience. I swear it's made things smoother and more consistent, plus some of the minor visual tweaks and refinements are welcome. Turns out a lot of what they did is under-the-hood optimizations and improvements to accessibility, so the Gnome desktop update itself has been a small but welcome improvement.

        So far I haven't had any issues elsewhere I'm Fedora 40, but maybe that's because I've checked for new updates pretty frequently and done some restarts since the upgrade, that might be keeping things fresh.

  • Can you tell us which GPU and driver versions?

    I've been alright here so far with fedora workstation and silverblue, on both NV21 and Cezanne (amdgpu+mesa, no amdgpu-pro or amdvlk)

  • It was going perfectly smooth (Plasma 6 wayland, amdgpu drivers); though the past week or so I started getting random shell crashes. (It's very impressive that Qt apps all come back unscathed -- but I don't use too many Qt apps.)

  • I decided to upgrade, and so far everything is working fine. I had some hiccups after the installation, but a reboot fixed all of them. Thanks for your input :)

  • Audio was a little flaky one time and creating virtual machines with TPM is broken unless you disable selinux

  • I get SELinux warnings related to Proton/Wine (something about "execheap"), but everything still works as it should.

    I also had a problem with one of my displays not working until I turned "dim screen after xyz" off (will have to look up what that setting was titled) in KDE. That is a weird issue as it completely crashed the display, even connecting to other computers doesn't work unless I unplug and replug the power of the display.

    Other than that, worked fine so far and I've been using it since the beta.

  • Plasma 5 to 6 with a long used setup went perfectly.

    Fedora Atomic Plasma Workstation? I am in!

  • Running Silverblue here and only one minor issue due to the wifi mac address changes and locking myself out of my network.

    I also realised, that the upgrade didn't like it when Ihade packages removed from the base which resulted in broken dependencies.

    After resetting it upgrading went without any glitch.

  • Had a sound issue: output device options only listed "Dummy Output" and nothing was listed for input devices. I eventually got my headset to be recognized again, but sadly couldn't tell you what did it, since I tried so many things and I lack proper understanding of the Linux sound scene.

    Just in case it's useful to someone, here's a collection of ideas I found while working through the issue:

    • Make sure wireplumber service is enabled and running OK
    • Plug in an HDMI device and reboot (some people said this permanently fixed a similar issue)
    • Backup, then delete $XDG_STATE_HOME/wireplumber and reboot
    • Check if you have installed the packages:
      • kernel-modules
      • alsa-sof-firmware

    Note, however, that I really don't understand what some of these do. You should be very wary of taking suggestions from people who don't know what they're talking about... unless you're desperate enough and want your sound back, perhaps.

    ...Also, here's a gentle reminder to test your sound device with other equipment and try different ports/adapters, if available. Wasn't my case, but sometimes stuff simply breaks at inopportune times.

  • Yes, Nvidia drivers broke, I had to remove and reinstall them, ( don't forget to reboot )

    Edit: oh, and also my widgets broke, even ones that are made by KDE...

    Also ClearClock is broken because it doesn't work on KDE 6

    • I definitely don't want to deal with that. Last time that happened I had to do a clean install which is just pain imo XD

    • Use the Atomic variants from uBlue! This will make sure stuff like that happens on their servers, they fix it once and the users always get working updates. (Maybe with a day delay in cases like this)

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