Fedora 41 is officially out now and brings with it plenty of upgrades for all users. Here's just some of what's new and improved.
If you stick with Fedora Workstation you'll get the newer GNOME 47 that comes with lots of additions I covered before like accent colour customization, enhanced small screen support, an improved Files app, a better Online Accounts system and much more.
Specifically in Fedora 41 there's IPU6 Camera support and improvements for Traditional Chinese. A big one is support for installing Nvidia drivers with secureboot, although the process needs a few steps it's good to see it in. There's also a new terminal app with Ptyxis.
Pictured - Fedora 41
There's also the newer DNF 5 package manager, PHP is 64-bit only, Valkey replaces Redis, PipeWire camera sensor support in Firefox and upgrades to various included applications.
See more in the release notes.
Fedora KDE got some nice upgrades too like KDE Plasma 6.2 that has improved Wayland colour management, lots of enhancements for drawing tablets, overhauled accessibility options and so on. There's also a new KDE Plasma Mobile spin.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Fester_Mudd Oct 30
Video playback don't work! In any of the mainstream sites i tried. I recall this has been an issue with Fedora a long time 
If things like video playback doesn't work OOTB how could anyone recommend this to any new user ..
If things like video playback doesn't work OOTB how could anyone recommend this to any new user ..
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wvstolzing Oct 30
Re: DNF 5, just as a heads up, if anyone keeps getting this warning message after updating a package:
That's a known bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2291869
AFAICT, as packages eventually get built with the newer version of rpm, the warnings should go away.
Running trigger-post-uninstall scriptlet: glibc-common-0:2.40-3.fc41.x86_64warning: posix.fork(): .fork(), .exec(), .wait() and .redirect2null() are deprecated, use rpm.spawn() or rpm.execute() insteadThat's a known bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2291869
AFAICT, as packages eventually get built with the newer version of rpm, the warnings should go away.
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ShadowXeldron Oct 30
I'm considering the KDE version of Fedora for my main non-gaming laptop actually but I still don't have the means to back my data up. Might have to look for an external hard drive.
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I'm still hoping/excited for the Cosmic spin of Fedora 42! (sorry I don't have any related comment for this release)
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Arehandoro Oct 30
Quoting: Fester_MuddVideo playback don't work! In any of the mainstream sites i tried. I recall this has been an issue with Fedora a long time
If things like video playback doesn't work OOTB how could anyone recommend this to any new user ..
Video playback is my only pain when installing fedora from scratch, and you're right, could be handled better/differently.
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Quoting: ShadowXeldronI'm considering the KDE version of Fedora for my main non-gaming laptop actually but I still don't have the means to back my data up. Might have to look for an external hard drive.
If atomic variants aren't an issue, I highly recommend Kinoite, it's been great running on my work laptop.
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dziadulewicz Oct 30
Quoting: Fester_MuddVideo playback don't work! In any of the mainstream sites i tried. I recall this has been an issue with Fedora a long time
If things like video playback doesn't work OOTB how could anyone recommend this to any new user ..
Indeed. It's an absolute shitshow. It is mandatory to use terminal and somehow *know* commands and what else. You are expected to just *know* there is this thing called RPMFusion (that you have to manually enable, and from where to start with, also a mystery as not any website or link is given). The installer doesn't express any of this. You also need to install additional codecs.
Fedora doesn't ship patented media codecs by default as for example Ubuntu and Linux Mint do.
It is beyond any normally thinking user *why there are no couple of simple boxes to tick* during install to achieve this totally basic functionality to watch videos.
So basically a new comer "can't watch YouTube, Dlive and Twitch on Linux" OOTB if you happen to choose Fedora as a first distro.
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wvstolzing Oct 30
Quoting: dziadulewiczQuoting: Fester_MuddVideo playback don't work! In any of the mainstream sites i tried. I recall this has been an issue with Fedora a long time
If things like video playback doesn't work OOTB how could anyone recommend this to any new user ..
Indeed. It's an absolute shitshow. It is mandatory to use terminal and somehow *know* commands and what else. You are expected to just *know* there is this thing called RPMFusion (that you have to manually enable, and from where to start with, also a mystery as not any website or link is given). The installer doesn't express any of this. You also need to install additional codecs.
Fedora doesn't ship patented media codecs by default as for example Ubuntu and Linux Mint do.
It is beyond any normally thinking user *why there are no couple of simple boxes to tick* during install to achieve this totally basic functionality to watch videos.
So basically a new comer "can't watch YouTube, Dlive and Twitch on Linux" OOTB if you happen to choose Fedora as a first distro.
mesa-{va,vdpau}-drivers-freeworld packages are currently broken on it; so hardware acceleration on Firefox currently doesn't work.EDIT: the mesa-*-freeworld packages are all updated now.
Last edited by wvstolzing on 30 October 2024 at 5:51 pm UTC
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This is good, for me however, it annoys me just a tad bit to not have nautilus follow on the accent colors it almost seems like an insult lol. But this release has a lot of great upgrades though.
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