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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.
Quoting: dziadulewiczOoookay. Well, that lets me out, not gonna fiddle with all that just to watch a video. But I guess the point of Fedora was never to be for people who just want to not worry about having an OS. Glad Mint is there for people like me.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.
mr-victory about 6 hours ago
wvstolzing about 5 hours ago
Quoting: mr-victoryThis version comes with GIMP3, GIMP2 is removed.
Yeah that's a little surprising; it's the release candidate for now, since v. 3 isn't officially out yet.
AFAICT, 'Version 3 RC 1' is mentioned only in the splash screen too; elsewhere the package is cited as gimp-2:2.99.19^20241011giteddaa13ad5-1.fc41.x86_64
Last edited by wvstolzing on 30 October 2024 at 5:56 pm UTC
I'd say Fedora is perfect for newbies who aren't afraid of their devices and don't mind "learning" the OS that they'll be using all the time. Dsitros that "just work" and tolerate tech illiteracy and laziness also have their place of course, it's cool that we have both options.
Quoting: Fester_MuddIf things like video playback doesn't work OOTB how could anyone recommend this to any new user ..
I rather like Fedora for reasons, but I actually wouldn't recommend it to new users for exactly (and maybe only) that reason. I actually had a friend that was thinking about giving Linux and specifically Fedora a try, and I felt compelled to warn them that it's not hard to deal with, but it is annoying that it doesn't "just work".
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