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?
Had no problems even on KDE spin. Upgrade from KDE 5 to 6 went smooth
qt was stuck with 5.15 because the telegram app depended on it (sigh). Had to do a
dnf upgrade --best --allowerasingfor the update to qt6 (and the removal of telegram lol).But now everything works fine.
There is a flatpak available for Telegram if you need it 😃
Yeah i know, i just prefer to use the distros native package manager. That said, i use the jellyfin client from flathub and that one now warns me as well that it depends on qt5.15 (works fine though, since flatpak can have multiple versions of dependencies).
I moved to 64gram,and that took care of that.
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
- 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.
Absolutely. It broke any leftover intention of ever trying Ubuntu again.
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.
I think that the last time I used Ubuntu was like 10+ years ago. Too many awesome distros out there to remain on it, and even then, it was already broken.
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Everything went smooth for me though my install is fairly pedestrian.
I’m seeing a lot of bad reviews of F40. I’d probably wait
Source
Freecad appimage stopoed working
Luckily the FLATPAK version still runs fine
Edit: I wrote snap but I intended FLATPAK Edit 2: weekly builds of freecad from GitHub are working fine
Appreciate the call out for this one, I’ll take a look on my side later.
Appimage it flawed to begin
There is an officially supported Flatpak
I would 100% use that. Snap on Fedora is likely not sandboxed at all, as it relies on Apparmor, and also not really that well maintained as nobody cares.
Yes, thanks. I wrote snap but I actually intended flatpak, D’OH!
Running Silverblue here and only one minor issue due to the wifi mac address changes and locking myself out of my network.
I also realised, that the upgrade didn’t like it when Ihade packages removed from the base which resulted in broken dependencies.
After resetting it upgrading went without any glitch.
I had to depmod -a, before then my gaming was messed up.
Honestly? I found it suggested on that other site. Something to do with the kernel modules. All I know is that I had no working GPU, ran that, rebooted, and then everything was gold.
what does
depmod -ado?It fixes your games apparently
Audio was a little flaky one time and creating virtual machines with TPM is broken unless you disable selinux
No issues jumping straight from 37 server edition to 40.
Had a sound issue: output device options only listed “Dummy Output” and nothing was listed for input devices. I eventually got my headset to be recognized again, but sadly couldn’t tell you what did it, since I tried so many things and I lack proper understanding of the Linux sound scene.
Just in case it’s useful to someone, here’s a collection of ideas I found while working through the issue:
- Make sure wireplumber service is enabled and running OK
- Plug in an HDMI device and reboot (some people said this permanently fixed a similar issue)
- Backup, then delete
$XDG_STATE_HOME/wireplumberand reboot - Check if you have installed the packages:
- kernel-modules
- alsa-sof-firmware
Note, however, that I really don’t understand what some of these do. You should be very wary of taking suggestions from people who don’t know what they’re talking about… unless you’re desperate enough and want your sound back, perhaps.
…Also, here’s a gentle reminder to test your sound device with other equipment and try different ports/adapters, if available. Wasn’t my case, but sometimes stuff simply breaks at inopportune times.
Yes, Nvidia drivers broke, I had to remove and reinstall them, ( don’t forget to reboot )
Edit: oh, and also my widgets broke, even ones that are made by KDE…
Also ClearClock is broken because it doesn’t work on KDE 6
I definitely don’t want to deal with that. Last time that happened I had to do a clean install which is just pain imo XD
Use the Atomic variants from uBlue! This will make sure stuff like that happens on their servers, they fix it once and the users always get working updates. (Maybe with a day delay in cases like this)
It’s a solid release. The only thing that broke were some plasma widgets not yet available for KDE 6.
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.
That doesn’t sound promising, though I am using Gnome, so at least my DE is not getting the biggest upgrade :)
Yeah, Gnome 46 has been a really solid, small upgrade in my experience. I swear it’s made things smoother and more consistent, plus some of the minor visual tweaks and refinements are welcome. Turns out a lot of what they did is under-the-hood optimizations and improvements to accessibility, so the Gnome desktop update itself has been a small but welcome improvement.
So far I haven’t had any issues elsewhere I’m Fedora 40, but maybe that’s because I’ve checked for new updates pretty frequently and done some restarts since the upgrade, that might be keeping things fresh.
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!
Nope, not at all. Silverblue here (GNOME), and the upgrade went smooth, nvidia drivers and all.
very nice
