Fedora Linux 36 is officially out now, after a number of delays as the Fedora team don't like to rush things out when they're not ready. Here's what's new.
With their main desktop edition being Fedora Workstation which is now running GNOME 42, they tend to stick to plain vanilla GNOME and not make too many tweaks there. So there's no big extra special bells and whistles when it comes to Fedora releases that you wouldn't have seen in new versions of GNOME. Fedora's Matthew Miller mentions "Fedora Workstation focuses on the desktop, and in particular, it’s geared toward users who want a “just works” Linux operating system experience.".
Fedora continues it's "First" foundation to include all the latest software so expect tons of upgrades to everything. For NVIDIA users, be aware that Fedora 36 now defaults to Wayland. Hopefully you won't see too many issues but they seem to think it's stable enough. A curious one though, since NVIDIA requested the folks at Canonical to go back to X11 for Ubuntu 22.04.
You'll find with Fedora 36 the likes of Linux Kernel 5.17, Mesa 22.0 drivers and OpenSSL 3.0 and so it should work nicely with the latest hardware.
You can download it from the official Fedora website. Their various Spins were also updated for those of you who prefer KDE Plasma, Xfce, Cinnamon and more.
If you do plan an upgrade from 35 to 36, ensure you've run all your normal updates first, as some "very important upgrade-related bugs" have been solved.
Sometime over the next week I'll be doing the upgrade, hopefully it will go smoothly. As this will be likely my first full distro version upgrade ever when using Fedora.
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Just updated. First impressions aren't great, first it'd refuse to upgrade with the ever-amusing "no klass" message, then after rebooting left clicking with the touchpad didn't work.
Another reboot later and I can click, but gnote no longer syncs with a local dir. I know it's deprecated, time to move to the new notes program, but it's such a hassle, I was putting it off as long as I could.
The dark/light mode switch animation is nice, it's just like macos some 5 years ago.
Anyway, new release, yay! \o/
Last edited by damarrin on 10 May 2022 at 3:17 pm UTC
Another reboot later and I can click, but gnote no longer syncs with a local dir. I know it's deprecated, time to move to the new notes program, but it's such a hassle, I was putting it off as long as I could.
The dark/light mode switch animation is nice, it's just like macos some 5 years ago.
Anyway, new release, yay! \o/
Last edited by damarrin on 10 May 2022 at 3:17 pm UTC
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Sometime over the next week I'll be doing the upgrade, hopefully it will go smoothly. As this will be likely my first full distro version upgrade ever when using Fedora.
Unlike Ubuntu, I've never had any issues with Fedora's upgrade procedure. I'm so confident with it that I haven't waited for the stable release to upgrade in years.
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iWeaker4You May 10, 2022
GNOME Files looks inconsistent, they would have implemented GTK 4 patches just like Ubuntu 22.04 did, so it doesn't look "out of tune"
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Just updated. First impressions aren't great, first it'd refuse to upgrade with the ever-amusing "no klass" message, then after rebooting left clicking with the touchpad didn't work.
Another reboot later and I can click, but gnote no longer syncs with a local dir. I know it's deprecated, time to move to the new notes program, but it's such a hassle, I was putting it off as long as I could.
The dark/light mode switch animation is nice, it's just like macos some 5 years ago.
Anyway, new release, yay! \o/
Isn't the no klass error something that happens when you have propietary apps with crappy repositories?
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mr-victory May 10, 2022
i'm currently using the Nobara Project OS which is Fedora with extra's for gaming. It has being on 36 for a while with very little issues, hopefully this update will fix all of those :DCan you list the issues you have? I also have Nobara 36 KDE installed.
Last edited by mr-victory on 10 May 2022 at 3:37 pm UTC
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Been using the 36 beta for awhile. Welcome everyone else who is upgrading. Lol 😂
Same... I figured "why not?" when I installed it as I thought it was due to be out officially in just a few days. It's been maybe a month now though?! Whoops, whatever. Good news is that I've had 0 problems, though I mostly used it for work/dev and not on my game machine.
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slaapliedje May 10, 2022
Sometime over the next week I'll be doing the upgrade, hopefully it will go smoothly. As this will be likely my first full distro version upgrade ever when using Fedora.
Unlike Ubuntu, I've never had any issues with Fedora's upgrade procedure. I'm so confident with it that I haven't waited for the stable release to upgrade in years.
Sure would be splendid if Fedora's upgrade actually would carry into RHEL and RHEL based distributions...
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slaapliedje May 10, 2022
i'm currently using the Nobara Project OS which is Fedora with extra's for gaming. It has being on 36 for a while with very little issues, hopefully this update will fix all of those :DCurious, what makes it more 'gaming' than Fedora? I'm considering something for my AtariVCS to get it to boot straight into either Steam BPM, or do the tweak so it's using the Steam Deck interface. But am wondering if I should just stick to Debian Sid, or install Fedora 36... I guess either doesn't matter as long as the kernel and mesa libraries are up to date for it. I usually stick to either or, as there aren't many Linux distros that support the Secure Boot out of the box.
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Rebase worked without major issues (had to remove and later reinstall the RPMFusion repo and Nvidia driver).
New color schemes look nice, the new screenshot UI is very sweet, and dark mode works well.
Last edited by Hooly on 10 May 2022 at 7:26 pm UTC
New color schemes look nice, the new screenshot UI is very sweet, and dark mode works well.
Last edited by Hooly on 10 May 2022 at 7:26 pm UTC
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I really like fedora, its getting really good, no more problems installing nvidia drivers. If I could figure out how to downgrade Nvidia driver to 495 I would use fedora instead of arch.
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GNOME Files looks inconsistent, they would have implemented GTK 4 patches just like Ubuntu 22.04 did, so it doesn't look "out of tune"Nautilus simply hasn't been ported to GTK4 yet, check here.
What you're seeing on Ubuntu is the Yaru theme which you can install on Fedora with the following command:
sudo dnf in yaru-themeand change it via GNOME Tweaks.
Alternatively you can install the GTK3 port the of the Libadwaita theme here if you want a more native look.
Last edited by McCarthee on 10 May 2022 at 11:08 pm UTC
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Sure would be splendid if Fedora's upgrade actually would carry into RHEL and RHEL based distributions...
I'm sure it would be a nightmare. Depending on what release of RHEL you migrate to most packages would be a downgrade (by version at least, if not functionality).
But if you're game you could try https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introduction-convert2rhel-now-officially-supported-convert-rhel-systems-rhel
I don't know if it would work but since it's just rpms who knows. RHEL 9 was released today and is the most likely to work IMHO.
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Craggles086 May 11, 2022
i'm currently using the Nobara Project OS which is Fedora with extra's for gaming. It has being on 36 for a while with very little issues, hopefully this update will fix all of those :D
Think I will wait a bit for Nobara to get more established. Perfectly happy with Manjaro for now.
So Nobara is strictly Gnome and Plasma flavours currently. Do I really want to game in Gnome?
Last edited by Craggles086 on 11 May 2022 at 4:55 am UTC
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I really like fedora, its getting really good, no more problems installing nvidia drivers. If I could figure out how to downgrade Nvidia driver to 495 I would use fedora instead of arch.What's the problem w/ the latest drivers? Curious as I'm an arch user looking to switch too.
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slaapliedje May 11, 2022
I meant being able to upgrade from RHEL 7 to 8, like you can go from Fedora 30, to 36..Sure would be splendid if Fedora's upgrade actually would carry into RHEL and RHEL based distributions...
I'm sure it would be a nightmare. Depending on what release of RHEL you migrate to most packages would be a downgrade (by version at least, if not functionality).
But if you're game you could try https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introduction-convert2rhel-now-officially-supported-convert-rhel-systems-rhel
I don't know if it would work but since it's just rpms who knows. RHEL 9 was released today and is the most likely to work IMHO.
Cool, I have a RHEL9 VM on my macbook I should update. As I couldn't install the version of 8 for ARM as it is not compatible with the vmware on the M1.
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Arehandoro May 11, 2022
The only issue I'm having is not being able to see/edit VPN configuration in NetWorkManager. There is a common issue already in the fedora forums, so hopefully a fix is found soon.
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I meant being able to upgrade from RHEL 7 to 8, like you can go from Fedora 30, to 36..
Fair point. There is limited support to upgrade 7 to 8. I know there are some packages/products, IPA server for one, that cannot be upgraded this way. IIRC RHEL 7 was based on Fedora 19 and RHEL 8 on F28. That's quite a leap in a single upgrade.
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/upgrading_from_rhel_7_to_rhel_8/index
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Mountain Man May 11, 2022
Sometime over the next week I'll be doing the upgrade, hopefully it will go smoothly. As this will be likely my first full distro version upgrade ever when using Fedora.
Unlike Ubuntu, I've never had any issues with Fedora's upgrade procedure. I'm so confident with it that I haven't waited for the stable release to upgrade in years.
For what it's worth, for the many years I used Kubuntu, I never had a single problem with upgrading. It always just worked.
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slaapliedje May 11, 2022
To be fair, with RHEL, you can upgrade. With CentOS, they purposefully broke it. It is one of the key differences. Granted CentOS is basically dead at this point.I meant being able to upgrade from RHEL 7 to 8, like you can go from Fedora 30, to 36..
Fair point. There is limited support to upgrade 7 to 8. I know there are some packages/products, IPA server for one, that cannot be upgraded this way. IIRC RHEL 7 was based on Fedora 19 and RHEL 8 on F28. That's quite a leap in a single upgrade.
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/upgrading_from_rhel_7_to_rhel_8/index
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I really like fedora, its getting really good, no more problems installing nvidia drivers. If I could figure out how to downgrade Nvidia driver to 495 I would use fedora instead of arch.What's the problem w/ the latest drivers? Curious as I'm an arch user looking to switch too.
Well for my although probably not very common usecase(I use a dp to hdmi adapter to get 120hz) the newer drivers refuse to let me use 120hz I can only choose 60hz, its the same problem on windows with 500 series drivers too.
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