Fedora 41 is out now with plenty of enhancements like easier NVIDIA driver installs

By Liam Dawe - 30 October 2024 at 11:37 am UTC

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.

Tags: Distro News, Fedora, Misc, New Release, Open Source

14 Likes

About the author - Liam Dawe

I am the owner of GamingOnLinux. After discovering Linux back in the days of Mandrake in 2003, I constantly came back to check on the progress of Linux until Ubuntu appeared on the scene and it helped me to really love it. You can reach me easily by emailing GamingOnLinux directly.
See more from me

Some you may have missed, popular articles from the last month:

Victoria 3: Pivot of Empire arrives in November and free update 1.8

Explore a top-secret uranium mine in retro-FPS Kvark

Steam's Halloween Sale is here with some frightful deals

Hearts of Iron IV to get an Expansion Pass, plus Gotterdammerung DLC releases November 14

23 comments

Page: «3/3

Pyrate about 4 hours ago

Link

View PC info

Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: PyrateDsitros that "just work" and tolerate tech illiteracy and laziness also have their place of course
Laziness FTW!!!

(Otherwise known as "having better things to do")

We're talking about two completely different things.

0 Likes

pleasereadthemanual about 2 hours ago

Link

View PC info

(though to be clear my opinion is Fedora should stop blocking the auto-download of openH264 in Firefox as I believe it results in a significantly worse experience for a benefit even free software evangelists would argue is dubious at best)

0 Likes

jens about 2 hours ago

Link

Supporter

Quoting: dziadulewiczYou 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).

There is also an alternative to rpmfusion, https://negativo17.org/multimedia/ , if you are running NVIDIA, it is worth to explore this. I prefer their way of packaging, it works much better for me.

Edit: ah, missed the recommendation in a few posts earlier.

But I agree on the general point, Fedora is not really beginners friendly with those things.

Last edited by jens on 1 November 2024 at 7:41 am UTC

0 Likes

« 1 «3 /3

While you're here, please consider supporting GamingOnLinux on:

Reward Tiers: Patreon. Plain Donations:

PayPal.

This ensures all of our main content remains totally free for everyone! Patreon supporters can also remove all adverts and sponsors! Supporting us helps bring good, fresh content. Without your continued support, we simply could not continue!

You can find even more ways to support us on this dedicated page any time. If you already are, thank you!