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?

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      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.

  • SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    6·
    6 months ago

    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.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
      5·
      6 months ago

      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!

      • kellenoffdagrid❓️@lemmy.sdf.org
        1·
        6 months ago

        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.

  • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
    5·
    6 months ago

    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.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
      1·
      6 months ago

      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.

  • jvh@feddit.uk
    5·
    6 months ago

    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

    • baru@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 months ago
      • 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.

    • passepartout@feddit.de
      3·
      6 months ago

      qt was stuck with 5.15 because the telegram app depended on it (sigh). Had to do a dnf upgrade --best --allowerasing for the update to qt6 (and the removal of telegram lol).

      But now everything works fine.

    • Para_lyzed@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      You can install sunshine on Fedora 40 with their COPR repo. Their GitHub releases lag behind on OS releases, but the COPR is automatically configured for new versions of Fedora since it doesn’t rely on compiling in a Docker container. Haven’t tried it myself, but it was recommended on their issues page.

      • mariah@feddit.rocks
        1·
        6 months ago

        I updated and now kde connect wont run without kde. Any alternative to open urls from android

        • Para_lyzed@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 months ago

          There’s a GNOME extension GSConnect that uses the KDE Connect backend if you’re on GNOME. I haven’t used it in awhile since switching to KDE, but it worked well when I used it.

          As far as KDE’s documentation says though, you should be able to use it on any DE. What exactly is the problem you’re experiencing? Will it not start, will it not connect (if so try re-pairing), or is there functionality that is missing?

          • mariah@feddit.rocks
            1·
            6 months ago

            It says it requires kde desktop but the cli works so i set it to autostart on hyprland. One thing tho is i cant type from the app but i got sunshine for that

            • Para_lyzed@lemmy.world
              1·
              6 months ago

              The remote input issue is related to Wayland, and currently all wlroots based compositors (including Hyperland) have issues with this. KDE Plasma has merged support for remote input to work with KDE Connect, however many other DEs do not have the support merged, and will have to rely on xdg-desktop-portal-wlr to implement it. Here are the related bug reports and issues:

              https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448604

              https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/issues/2

              https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/1775

              Also, it seems the other issue is unrelated, are you seeing an error on the command line, or is there a dialog popup, and can you quote what is said? I’m having trouble finding any related issues anywhere on GitHub, even the Hyperland issues around remote desktop did not seem to have this particular error (or didn’t mention it at least).

  • wvstolzing@lemmy.ml
    3·
    6 months ago

    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.)

  • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    Can you tell us which GPU and driver versions?

    I’ve been alright here so far with fedora workstation and silverblue, on both NV21 and Cezanne (amdgpu+mesa, no amdgpu-pro or amdvlk)

  • mFat@lemdro.idEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    It’s a solid release. The only thing that broke were some plasma widgets not yet available for KDE 6.

  • BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.deOP
    3·
    6 months ago

    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 :)

  • narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee
    2·
    6 months ago

    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.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Audio was a little flaky one time and creating virtual machines with TPM is broken unless you disable selinux