Fedora 41 Releases Today With Many Shiny New Features

[jacob]

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.

Fedora is not a server distro, what makes you think it would be a good idea to run it on a server? Use RHEL, Alma, Rocky etc. For a desktop, for me with its 6 montly cycles it strikes the right balance between reliability and being up-to-date.

[leigh123linux]

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.

So you didn't bother looking in rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing repo

https://mirrors.neterra.net/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/updates/testing/41/x86_64/repoview/index.html

[lakerssuperman]

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.

Desktop and server are two entirely different things. I use Fedora for my desktops and laptops and Debian for my home server. I've read many posts and blogs about running Fedora as a server with success, but it seems very much geared toward the average desktop user that wants vanilla Gnome. The releases are perfectly fine for desktop usage. Every six-ish months I get the upgrade notification in Gnome Software, click it, do the upgrade, and go on about my day. No breakage. No major issues. It's very seamless and for desktop usage perfectly acceptable.

[lakerssuperman]

Duh? It moves too fast? I'm fine with a few years of lifetime for a distro, but every X months (where X <= 1 year) of new releases, no thanks. Agree or disagree, I don't care. You won't change my mind.

Present evidence or don't. You won't change my narrative. Do I have that right?

[Espionage724]

Duh? It moves too fast? I'm fine with a few years of lifetime for a distro, but every X months (where X <= 1 year) of new releases, no thanks. Agree or disagree, I don't care. You won't change my mind.

Sounds reasonable to me!

I like stuff moving fast; I run websites from main/master branches, and the one time I got into a bit of a hiccup was during PHP 7 to 8 migrations years ago (fine distro-side but some of my websites weren't 8-ready yet). Getting to re-check my configs and get "up-to-date" with how things are done every 6 months works great for me, and cleaning up old cruft in the meantime is always nice with fresh installs!

Fedora works well for me with that speed, but if I needed to run a more calm set-up or was talking enterprise, I'd definitely look at something else... like RHEL (for anyone not aware it's free and not tied to a paid sub as a requirement; can create a free RH account)

[reftch]

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.

Me, for example. I have been using Fedora as a server distro for my home server since 2021. It works perfectly and stable. I really like SELinux. Every two months I do updates and restart it. Next week it has a planned update. This time, it will upgrade to the 41th version. It's very simple. I don't see any problems with update/release cycles.

[mikelpr]

Updates are another factor, being forced to switch to a new major version at least once a year is not ideal, resulting in me often staying on unsupported versions for a while.

Try fedora coreos, it updates automatically

[danger]

Are there any news on Silverblue?

Bazzite/Bluefin/Aurora "latest" images have been updated to F41.

[danger]

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.

I use it as a work desktop. I never upgrade immediately though. After a new Fedora release is out, I wait for about two months, then check the compatibility of apps and tools that I use, the do a system backup, then upgrade. I've done it for 5 years now, and I never had a borked system I'd have to reinstall.

[danger]

Good for you. You might as well go to a rolling distro as Arch or Tumbleweed. For me, it's out of the question. Too fast moving. I got better things to do than virtually constantly updating.

You don't have to constantly update. You don't have to do it even on a rolling distro, let alone Fedora. I don't understand where this belief comes from that you have to install updates as soon as they roll out.