I am running Fedora 39 right now and the last time I did a distro upgrade my graphics drivers were a huge PITA. Did your upgrade to 40 went smooth?

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      5 months ago

      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.

  • narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    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.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    5 months ago

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

  • eltimablo@kbin.social
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    5 months ago

    Screen sharing with Discord no longer works, but I think that’s from an update to Flatpak because it was also happening at the end of 39’s lifecycle.

      • eltimablo@kbin.social
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        5 months ago

        I’m fairly confident that it’s a change in Flatpak itself rather than any one specific Flatpak, since all of my apps now use the same new screen sharing interface. Difference is that it actually works in those apps.

  • BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.deOP
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    5 months ago

    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 :)

    • Para_lyzed@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      You can install sunshine on Fedora 40 with their COPR repo. Their GitHub releases lag behind on OS releases, but the COPR is automatically configured for new versions of Fedora since it doesn’t rely on compiling in a Docker container. Haven’t tried it myself, but it was recommended on their issues page.

      • mariah@feddit.rocks
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        5 months ago

        I updated and now kde connect wont run without kde. Any alternative to open urls from android

        • Para_lyzed@lemmy.world
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          5 months ago

          There’s a GNOME extension GSConnect that uses the KDEConnect backend if you’re on GNOME. I haven’t used it in awhile since switching to KDE, but it worked well when I used it.

          As far as KDE’s documentation goes though, you should be able to use it on any DE. What exactly is the problem you’re experiencing? Will it not start, will it not connect (if so try re-pairing), or is there functionality that is missing?

          • mariah@feddit.rocks
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            5 months ago

            It says it requires kde desktop but the cli works so i set it to autostart on hyprland. One thing tho is i cant type from the app but i got sunshine for that

  • barbara@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    All good on my device but I use fedora atomic. If it wasn’t good, I could just roll back.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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      5 months ago

      Same, still have Kinoite 39 pinned to be safe (even though I imagine rolling back would cause tons of broken dotfiles), but didnt need that.

      Dotfiles are really the issue.

      • barbara@lemmy.ml
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        5 months ago

        No, it’s image based.

        You can always use the testing image if you want

      • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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        5 months ago

        No they just package the exact same versions, but differently. It uses rpm-ostree which is like Git but for operating systems (binaries).

        A quick tour through Atomic Fedora

        It relies on a main image, which could just be used like that. This is a minimal Fedora install, containing everything thats needed and nothing more.

        You would then install apps via Flatpak, Appimage, binaries, Toolbox etc.

        Or you can layer RPM packages, and you can install everything as on normal fedora. This will make updates a bit slower but is usually needed for small things like a different shell.

        These packages will be kept updated in parallel to the OS. The OS is always 100% what Fedora ships, while the RPMs come from all the repos you can imagine, COPR, rpmfusion etc.

        Rpm-ostree pulls down the update and the packages are added to that. But instead of modifying the current OS, it clones it, using the current one, and the differences (updates) that are downloaded.

        This new image is now either complete, or gets the wanted RPMs added or removed. The new image is then set as new boot target.

        You can use your system how long you want, but when you reboot (and this takes not any longer than a regular reboot) you will boot into the new version.

        If something broke, you always have the last system kept. You can increase that number, so only the x-th last image gets automatically deleted. And you can manually sudo ostree admim pin 0 the current system, if you know it works well and you have for example a driver update, or a big system update, and want to be sure you will have this as backup.

        You can also rebase, which means your system will now mirror a different repo of theirs. For example from Silverblue (GNOME) to Kinoite (KDE). This will change everything so that you now 100% have the packages of the new repo, failsafe.

        If it would fail, the update would cancel and you dont get one.

        So remember:

        • the system by default is 100% the one that Fedora ships. No manual upgrades, no strange “cant reproduce on my system” conflicts, nothing.
        • you can still install all RPMs you want
        • you can remove RPMs from the system
        • you can reset the system again to be 100% upstream
        • you can rebase to a different variant. Like Fedora to uBlue, including NVidia drivers and some packages. Or advanced images like Bluefin/Aurora, or Secureblue variants
        • updates either work 100% or fail
        • you will always have a fallback system (not only a kernel, an entire system) and you can keep as many as you want, forever

        So basically: rpm-ostree gives you the needed control to have a stable OS.

        But still not everything is “immutable” /managed with rpm-ostree. Your entire /var is mutable, and /etc and /home are symlinks from that. This means you can configure and break what you want, which can also be problematic.

        Note though, that the vanilla /etc files are stored in /usr/etc, so you can restore them. Make sure to exclude crypttab, fstab and a few more!

        • poinck@lemm.ee
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          5 months ago

          Thx, that was what I needed to understand Fedora atomic a bit better. Cool concept!

        • Unskilled5117@feddit.de
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          5 months ago

          If someone is interested in the atomic concept, i would recommend looking into uBlue. It offers the Fedora atomic spins with a lot of tweaks applied that take the user experience to another level. Everything is just hassle free. Highly recommended! There are separate images with tweaks for gamers and developers.

  • SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    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.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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      5 months ago

      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!

  • mFat@lemdro.idEnglish
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    5 months ago

    It’s a solid release. The only thing that broke were some plasma widgets not yet available for KDE 6.

    • passepartout@feddit.de
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      5 months ago

      qt was stuck with 5.15 because the telegram app depended on it (sigh). Had to do a dnf upgrade --best --allowerasing for the update to qt6 (and the removal of telegram lol).

      But now everything works fine.

  • jvh@feddit.uk
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    5 months ago

    I upgraded from 39 to 40 and I think the only issues I had were:

    • Background I was using got removed, got a better one anyway
    • A few gnome extensions stopped working and I had to update them or find an alternative
    • Had to re-create virtual disk mapped to real disk for booting windows installation in virtual box (there is a sonicwall VPN I have to use for work which only works on Windows)

    I think that was it!

    I have had some strange behaviour from Firefox saying it’s become unresponsive a few times and at the same time Thunderbird but that seems to have fixed itself now

    • baru@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago
      • Background I was using got removed, got a better one anyway

      I had that happen a few times. This time I downloaded those backgrounds again (from gnome-backgrounds repository). Still, it’s pretty annoying to have this happen.

      I upgraded just before the beta. Discovered a mutter crash, reported it, it was fixed in a day or so.

  • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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)