Fedora 41 Releases Today With Many Shiny New Features

[hsci]

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg/-/issues/1128

If you wonder why the default background of GNOME isn't rendered properly.

[finalzone]

Oxford dictionary:


So Fedora 41 inspires delight and pleasure and is marvelous?

Maybe if the bar is about a foot off the ground.

Let's keep things in perspective, it's a collection of packages that have slight numerical increments from the ones found in Fedora 40 and in some cases a bit more functionality.

None of this is anything to marvel at, with the exception of the fact that they still use Anaconda, arguably one of the most half-assed installers ever conceived.

I really wish Red Hat would discontinue support of Fedora, rebase around BSD and release a true open source based OS like Mac OS, only for x86.

Obvious bait. Glad the majority of the world hardly relies on a such attention seeker's comment looking for triggering flame-bait.

[You-]

He’s talking about that rageflame twitter (or fediverse, idk) thread when someone tried to get offended on others’ behalf about accessibility in Wayland and some other guy (from either Fedora or GNOME) responded “patches welcome”.

What that fediverse user had also mistaken was that that bug was an oversight in a single release and only impacted the installer as for everything else it was fixed once updates were applied.

[Massa]

Anyone using Fedora 41 on Nvidia or even on say Intel/Nvidia hybrid setup? Been hearing a few reports of issues with apps or flatpaks not opening up or taking 20-30 seconds to open for some Gnome apps. Anyone able to help verify or dispel this issue? Thanks in advance.

I had that issue as well, it's fixed in the 565 nVidia drivers. They are not in the rpmfusion repos yet but after manually downloading and installing the rpmfusion preview build rpms the issue is fixed without having to change to the gl backend for GSK_RENDERER as Scotty_Trees mentioned.

[lateo]

People run Fedora as a serious distro on their desktops/servers? The way Fedora does its updates and release cycles, will virtually never make me consider it as a decent desktop/server distro.

Server side : depends on your needs (for some things you definitely don't want to use Fedora, for some other it doesn't make a difference, for some it's arguably a most reasonable choice), and/or if the team can follow the 6 months release cycle.
My team was scared by this release cycle speed and made me switch to a RHEL clone for my projects.
I encountered so much issues with the RHEL clone that i didn't have with Fedora. But hey, the team is happy.

Desktop/laptop/workstation side : it's well done and just works.

[George99]

I have been using Fedore 41 for a few weeks now. So far everything is working fine and I haven't had any serious bugs, just a few minor glitches:

- The card game “aisleriot” depends on the package guile30, but this package is not installed automatically.
- A background that changes with the time of day is completely missing in the settings.
- Although I selected a keyboard with German layout during installation, the GDM login screen still shows the selection menu and offers both German or English keyboard layouts. (System language English, formats German)

[darkbasic]

Ah bummer, thanks. I thought that work was already mainlined earlier in the 6.x cycle. I'll cross my fingers for 6.13.

Highly unlikely at this point. But the dkms works and can be applied on top of the current kernel.

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

Highly unlikely at this point. But the dkms works and can be applied on top of the current kernel.

It's too bad it has taken this long. I know it's a niche thing and wouldn't materially impact sales, but even just supporting SR-IOV out-of-the-box for iGPUs is the kind of thing that along with a much better GPU compute stort may make me choose an Arrow Lake laptop over a Ryzen AI one.

Also, I'm SOL for DKMS since the Universal Blue stuff is downstream of CoreOS / Sliverblue / Kinoite. I could fork Bluefin and probably pull in a custom LTS kernel based on one of the CentOS SIG ones with the needed SR-IOV stuff patched in, but work is crazy and I won't have time to mess with any of that soon.

[GruenSein]

Does this help fix your issue?

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/gdk-message-error-71-protocol-error-dispatching-to-wayland-display/127927/15

I followed this and it got my flatpaks to open normally again, this is on Fedora 40 fyi:
mkdir -p ~/.config/environment.d
echo "GSK_RENDERER=ngl" >> ~/.config/environment.d/gsk.conf

You may want to do a reboot to make sure the changes take full effect. Please get back to me and let me know if this helps you. You can simply delete the environment.d folder if nothing changes.

Thanks for the hint. On my machine, this did not help. Let's see if F41 will do better

[Mitch]

Are there any news on Silverblue?

Haven't seen anything on there, but to be honest, I'm not sure where to look.

Somewhat relatedly, Bazzite got a huge release with Fedora 41. IIRC, vanilla Bazzite is based on Kinoite, a KDE sibling of Silverblue.

Bazzite's community has a nice write-up on the changes and enhancements, which may be shared with other atomic distros, to some degree.

https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bazzite-f41-update-new-kernel-msi-claw-improvements-vrr-fixes-better-changelogs-gnome-47-more/4726