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?
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.
Yes. Numerous COPR repos not updated aside, my sddm theme broke and doesn’t detect Qtgraphicaleffects (which is installed). You know what the weirdest part is? There are 2 “dependencies” for the theme: quickcontrols and graphicaleffects, and luckily, quickcontrols was detected properly. I ended up rewriting the theme, and while it works, it is far from where it needs to be. Safe to say, I’m very annoyed.
Edit: I actually did a clean install, as I tried some other distros a few days before F40 released.
So those are either random 3rd party problems (please contact the COPR maintainers, there is Discourse integration) or direct Plasma issues :D
I was also a bit hesitant to already upgrade, as I tried Plasma 6 before and it wasnt perfectly stable, but I actually havent had any issues yet.
3rd party stuff of course
- minimal desktop indicator
- video lockscreen (ironically had a Qt5 bug with seemless playback that may now be fixed)
Some extensions have alternatives like Thermal Monitor, but upgrading was unintuitive. It needed removing and adding back.
I don’t use plasma so definitely not plasma issues. I use SDDM on the Sway Edition and then install Hyprland as my Wayland Compositor of choice.
I think SDDM is mainly maintained by Plasma people? But I dont know.
Nope, not at all. Silverblue here (GNOME), and the upgrade went smooth, nvidia drivers and all.
very nice
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 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.
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!
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.
I cant update because of sunshine
Average Linux user
No f40 version? Is there a spec file? Should be possible on COPR
I got it from github https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/releases. I just updated it
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
I decided to upgrade, and so far everything is working fine. I had some hiccups after the installation, but a reboot fixed all of them. Thanks for your input :)
It was going perfectly smooth (Plasma 6 wayland, amdgpu drivers); though the past week or so I started getting random shell crashes. (It’s very impressive that Qt apps all come back unscathed – but I don’t use too many Qt apps.)
Everything went smooth for me though my install is fairly pedestrian.
I get SELinux warnings related to Proton/Wine (something about “execheap”), but everything still works as it should.
I also had a problem with one of my displays not working until I turned “dim screen after xyz” off (will have to look up what that setting was titled) in KDE. That is a weird issue as it completely crashed the display, even connecting to other computers doesn’t work unless I unplug and replug the power of the display.
Other than that, worked fine so far and I’ve been using it since the beta.
It’s a solid release. The only thing that broke were some plasma widgets not yet available for KDE 6.
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
Screen sharing with Discord no longer works, but I think that’s from an update to Flatpak because it was also happening at the end of 39’s lifecycle.
Doesn’t work for me on GNOME Wayland on Arch either. I’m also using the flatpak.
You can mask flatpaks to not update. Likely also rollback
I’m fairly confident that it’s a change in Flatpak itself rather than any one specific Flatpak, since all of my apps now use the same new screen sharing interface. Difference is that it actually works in those apps.
Were you using X11 before, by chance? IIRC Fedora 40 dropped X11, and only ships with Wayland by default. The fact that all of your apps are using the same screen sharing interface sounds like they’re using the screen share portal due to running under a Wayland session, which Discord doesn’t currently support currently.
For a while there was a workaround using a tool called XWaylandVideoBridge but even that stopped working for me.
I’ve heard that Vesktop supports screensharing under Wayland (and supposedly with sound support too), and it is available on Flathub - might be worth a try.
Flatpak doesnt handle that, this is an xdg-desktop-portal by your Desktop that is also used for other apps.