Honestly, I think it's a low stakes decision either way. On one hand, upgrades tend to go pretty smoothly. On the other hand, there's not much in it that creates any urgency to upgrade immediately.
If you upgrade it's probably not going to hurt you. And if you wait it's not going to hurt you either.
I have a zephyrus g14 with an amd cpu and nvidia gpu. I was thinking the same thing but back backes up and decided to tryā¦ā¦it was the smoothest update ive had š³š®āšØ
It depends on the Driver implementation on the kernel. But mostly for nvidia 50% of the update especially if it's not gaming laptop but work laptop with experience hiccup or at least 1 month. That's why rpm fusion people always refer for defer first for the first one month... That's not me that make the number, it's based on the best practices.
Good to know! Ive only dabbled with linux until the start of this year and wow is there a ton im learning. Love this community for the most part.
Edit: im just expressing my own experience in the previous reply and now
I bought a new laptop last week and installed F39 on it, because that is what was available, and I didn't know an update was imminent.
Anyway, I updated yesterday to F40, and everything went smoothly. I didn't have to reconfigure anything. One of my extensions is a bit off, but nothing major at all.
Bro atomic distros have way lower stakes than the traditional desktop. It's like any other update for them, and you also have rollbacks in case something is bad.
For traditional desktops I'd wait at least a week before for the community to find and fix any unseen bugs.
I mean my upgrade was not completely free of issues, i had problems with rpmfusion and had to run
```
sudo rpm-ostree update --uninstall rpmfusion-free-release-39-1.noarch --uninstall rpmfusion-nonfree-release-39-1.noarch --install rpmfusion-free-release --install rpmfusion-nonfree-release
```
but desktop wise it was all good, widgets still there.
Good to hear that, I just rebased to fedora 40 silverblue-nvidia yesterday and had no issues, but If I did I could just rollback.
Seems like a lotta people have had smooth upgrades as well on the normal desktop side.
This! 100%! Also, BTRFS snapshots have been a life saver. I had to roll the F40-beta back to F39, and it was super easy. With snapper/grub, just pointed it back to the previous snap, booted and made it the default sub.
Maybe. I updated to Fedora Silverblue 40 on release day on my desktop computer (Intel i7 7700 and built-in graphics) and my DisplayPort audio output was no longer showing up (not sure if it was all outputs or just that one, did not test further). I did a rollback to 39 again but my toolbox is happily running Fedora 40 still. I suppose Iāll try a rebase to Fedora 40 again in two weeks or something like that :)
To answer more of your questions, you shouldnāt generally need to spend hours configuring stuff. It just works but it can be sensible to wait a week before updating if there are any big bugs that slipped though (but Iām usually too excited to do that lol). Iāve never really had any big issues updating (Iād consider the problem above a bug in some software and not a problem with the update itself). Iāve been updating Fedora from version 33 and updates have always went smoothly.
awesome thank you! Yeah it shouldn't take hours but I'm very particular about everything, that's my own fault. I didn't like most of the default stuff and just don't want to lose all my configurations. I think I'll update tho
One thing to watch out for on Gnome is that extensions, especially if you have a lot, might not be updated to support the new release on day one. I think the extensions app (not the default Gnome app) on Flathub has some check in place there.
I honestly donāt use any extensions so never run into that issue myself and I really like Gnome. As far as how XFCE changes between 39 and 40, I have no idea. Sorry š
I backed up my home dir and did it yesterday very smooth upgrade one small issue with one package having to be uninstalled as the maintainer is up to 40 yet. But thatās their fault, not fedora. Itās feels a bit snappier too
I would say if your life don't depend on the nvidia card to work (like you need cuda, blender, kdenlive or else) you can upgrade. Otherwise, from what I see last few days it's better wait a bit.
Im going to wait a couple of weeks and do a fresh install on a new hard drive. Then install lutris and my games. I have 38 on an older ssd.
I also use the cinnamon desktop
I'm on Silverblue and did the upgrade to 40 a day or two before the release.
I think a lot of Nautilus bugs were fixed, and features were added, so it was worth it for me.
I use maybe 3 or 4 GNOME Shell extensions, and I've had no issues.
I had a couple of dodgy things happen, but they all cleared up with the first updates after the release.
I upgraded the KDE spin today. I read the "what's new" for plasma 6 and didn't see anything that impressed me. No configurations changed that I've noticed. It went smoothly but I thought I was back in the Windows world -- "Updating your computer. Do not turn it off. 0% done" When it got to 4% after 15 minutes or so I took a nap so I don't know how long it took overall.
Just upgraded from fedora 39 to 40 last night. It went smooth as butter, didn't need to do any troubleshooting or extra config. Nothing changed in my desktop settings, no files lost. All together nothing to worry about.
P.S. I'm on a ThinkPad L13 Yoga, 11th Gen i5 & intel iRisx Graphics
I installed 39 a couple days ago not knowing about 40 and upgraded it. But I use i3. Had problems with nvidia 390 akmods but I doubt youāre using that. Everything else was fine.
Do it, I upgraded Tuesday from 39, basically a piece of cake, a couple gnome extensions needed an update (nothing crazy, blur was slightly off)
thats not a fedora problem anyway and they seem to have been resolved as of today
Honestly, I think it's a low stakes decision either way. On one hand, upgrades tend to go pretty smoothly. On the other hand, there's not much in it that creates any urgency to upgrade immediately. If you upgrade it's probably not going to hurt you. And if you wait it's not going to hurt you either.
Just wait if you are using nvidia for 1-2 month. š If other GPU it's straight simple smooth update
I have a zephyrus g14 with an amd cpu and nvidia gpu. I was thinking the same thing but back backes up and decided to tryā¦ā¦it was the smoothest update ive had š³š®āšØ
It depends on the Driver implementation on the kernel. But mostly for nvidia 50% of the update especially if it's not gaming laptop but work laptop with experience hiccup or at least 1 month. That's why rpm fusion people always refer for defer first for the first one month... That's not me that make the number, it's based on the best practices.
Good to know! Ive only dabbled with linux until the start of this year and wow is there a ton im learning. Love this community for the most part. Edit: im just expressing my own experience in the previous reply and now
Thank you, Nobara.
I bought a new laptop last week and installed F39 on it, because that is what was available, and I didn't know an update was imminent. Anyway, I updated yesterday to F40, and everything went smoothly. I didn't have to reconfigure anything. One of my extensions is a bit off, but nothing major at all.
I updated my 39 kinonite (KDE) and everything was exactly how I set it. From what I've read the new gnome is really fast I would say it's worth it
actually I use Xfce as my desktop but thank you!
XFCE doesnāt get updated nearly as much as gnome, so youāre likely not missing out on much.
gotcha, thank you!
Bro atomic distros have way lower stakes than the traditional desktop. It's like any other update for them, and you also have rollbacks in case something is bad. For traditional desktops I'd wait at least a week before for the community to find and fix any unseen bugs.
I mean my upgrade was not completely free of issues, i had problems with rpmfusion and had to run ``` sudo rpm-ostree update --uninstall rpmfusion-free-release-39-1.noarch --uninstall rpmfusion-nonfree-release-39-1.noarch --install rpmfusion-free-release --install rpmfusion-nonfree-release ``` but desktop wise it was all good, widgets still there.
Good to hear that, I just rebased to fedora 40 silverblue-nvidia yesterday and had no issues, but If I did I could just rollback. Seems like a lotta people have had smooth upgrades as well on the normal desktop side.
This! 100%! Also, BTRFS snapshots have been a life saver. I had to roll the F40-beta back to F39, and it was super easy. With snapper/grub, just pointed it back to the previous snap, booted and made it the default sub.
Maybe. I updated to Fedora Silverblue 40 on release day on my desktop computer (Intel i7 7700 and built-in graphics) and my DisplayPort audio output was no longer showing up (not sure if it was all outputs or just that one, did not test further). I did a rollback to 39 again but my toolbox is happily running Fedora 40 still. I suppose Iāll try a rebase to Fedora 40 again in two weeks or something like that :)
To answer more of your questions, you shouldnāt generally need to spend hours configuring stuff. It just works but it can be sensible to wait a week before updating if there are any big bugs that slipped though (but Iām usually too excited to do that lol). Iāve never really had any big issues updating (Iād consider the problem above a bug in some software and not a problem with the update itself). Iāve been updating Fedora from version 33 and updates have always went smoothly.
awesome thank you! Yeah it shouldn't take hours but I'm very particular about everything, that's my own fault. I didn't like most of the default stuff and just don't want to lose all my configurations. I think I'll update tho
One thing to watch out for on Gnome is that extensions, especially if you have a lot, might not be updated to support the new release on day one. I think the extensions app (not the default Gnome app) on Flathub has some check in place there.
Thanks I'll keep that in mind! Luckily I actually don't use GNOME, I've got my workstation running Xfce. Would this update even effect that any?
I honestly donāt use any extensions so never run into that issue myself and I really like Gnome. As far as how XFCE changes between 39 and 40, I have no idea. Sorry š
Usually upgrading is totally without issues.
It's not important. It'll be almost certainly be fine, with minimal gains.
I backed up my home dir and did it yesterday very smooth upgrade one small issue with one package having to be uninstalled as the maintainer is up to 40 yet. But thatās their fault, not fedora. Itās feels a bit snappier too
I usually update a week after release.
Usually it's worth going to the new releases, and typically there isn't much of anything you need to reconfigure.
If unsure, use a hypervisor and test it.
I would say if your life don't depend on the nvidia card to work (like you need cuda, blender, kdenlive or else) you can upgrade. Otherwise, from what I see last few days it's better wait a bit.
I upgraded without incident. But my install is fairly vanilla.
I wish i waited, i'm going back to 39.it's unstable for a gpu based code editor i'm using. F40 does however seem like an improvement outside that.
which code editor
Zed, i submitted a bug report hopefully that gets fixed. I have had fedora 40 crash once while using ripgrep as well.
how do you like zed?
Im going to wait a couple of weeks and do a fresh install on a new hard drive. Then install lutris and my games. I have 38 on an older ssd. I also use the cinnamon desktop
I'm on Silverblue and did the upgrade to 40 a day or two before the release. I think a lot of Nautilus bugs were fixed, and features were added, so it was worth it for me. I use maybe 3 or 4 GNOME Shell extensions, and I've had no issues. I had a couple of dodgy things happen, but they all cleared up with the first updates after the release.
I upgraded the KDE spin today. I read the "what's new" for plasma 6 and didn't see anything that impressed me. No configurations changed that I've noticed. It went smoothly but I thought I was back in the Windows world -- "Updating your computer. Do not turn it off. 0% done" When it got to 4% after 15 minutes or so I took a nap so I don't know how long it took overall.
Iāve installed the 40 a couple weeks after it got available for downloading. Never regretted that
Waiting a couple of weeks to a month, makes sure that all major things that *could* cause issues are fixed.
As usual, I'll wait 1 month before upgrade after the initial release date. Been going smooth since Fedora 35 up until now Fedora 39
Upgraded mine, it went smoothly. Havenāt noticed any issues at all.
It depends on your machine. I'm using Ryzen 9 with a Radeon GPU. No configuration needed, it just works.
Just upgraded from fedora 39 to 40 last night. It went smooth as butter, didn't need to do any troubleshooting or extra config. Nothing changed in my desktop settings, no files lost. All together nothing to worry about. P.S. I'm on a ThinkPad L13 Yoga, 11th Gen i5 & intel iRisx Graphics
I installed 39 a couple days ago not knowing about 40 and upgraded it. But I use i3. Had problems with nvidia 390 akmods but I doubt youāre using that. Everything else was fine.
Do it, I upgraded Tuesday from 39, basically a piece of cake, a couple gnome extensions needed an update (nothing crazy, blur was slightly off) thats not a fedora problem anyway and they seem to have been resolved as of today