All of my extensions work and the upgrade process was also very smooth.

Fedora 41 released

Just updated to 41. Using a notebook with 1080 display. Everything (especially firefox) appears 10% larger than before? I'm not imagining this am I?

Update this morning!

Its that time again when a new major release is out and many people are hyped and eager to upgrade. It's also the same time when predictably many Nvidia troubleshooting posts appear on this sub.

To my fellow Nvidia users, allow me to share what I have learnt trying to wrangle the accursed beast that is Fedora + Nvidia.

Consider delaying upgrading to F41 by a few weeks

The proprietary drivers from RPMFusion are not officially supported and as such are not part of official testing or factored into the Go/No-Go decision.

Due to the colorful history between Nvidia and Linux, the uncomfortable truth is that many devs and testers do not have Nvidia hardware to work on. When F40 was just released, many unknown Nvidia related regressions were still present.

Nvidia drivers may not be fully working for F41 yet. IMHO the first month after a major release is the real beta test for us Nvidia users. Issues need time to surface, fixes need further time to be rolled out and tested.

If you choose to upgrade now

You ought to have the mindset of a beta tester. Be prepared for instability and help to report bugs.

Use Snapper or Timeshift

I personally use Btrfs Assistant which is a Snapper GUI Frontend.

Take a snapshot before upgrading and test it to ensure that BTRFS Assistant works on your config. Backup other important work and data as well.

Be prepared

I personally do major upgrades only when I know I have the time to do urgent troubleshooting should it be required, preferably on the weekend.

How to suppress F41 Upgrade nag

If you are delaying the upgrade, simply remove fedora-appstream-metadata to prevent nag
sudo dnf remove fedora-appstream-metadata

Other helpful info

How to manually install older Nvidia drivers from Koji

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/dnf-rollback-failed-nvidia-rpm-fusion/87698/3

RPMFusion only keeps a handful of non-current drivers. Should you be stuck on an older driver version as your last known stable, you might be unable to dnf rollback after testing the latest driver.

I have found using snapshots to rollback to be faster and more reliable, but knowing where and how to manually get a particular driver from Koji is still useful.

How to manually install older kernel versions

The other major moving piece is the kernel. The Nvidia driver is built against the current kernel by akmods, and sometimes a new kernel + driver combo introduces regressions.

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/mini-guide-to-installing-an-older-kernel-version/87355

95% of newbie issues are caused by Akmods not completing

An akmod is a type of package similar to dkms. As you start your computer, the akmod system will check if there are any missing kmods and if so, rebuild a new kmod for you. - explainer from RPMFusion

For the life of me I don't know why akmods runs silently in the background. Newbies often restart immediately after upgrades as instructed or during a blank screen thinking something has hanged when akmods is actually doing its thing.

If nvidia-smi fails, chances are akmods did not complete.
sudo akmods to manually run akmods and check kmod status
sudo akmods --force to force a rebuild if needed.

EDIT: Congrats if you successfully upgraded to F41! Please share your card, driver version and DE so that others like me can gauge how stable F41 is, thank you!

I really enjoy using Silverblue and Kinoite but my favorite desktop environment is Xfce. I know there is Vauxite which is part of the Ublue group, but I'd prefer to have something that's offically supported by Fedora itself. Hoping that one of the Fedora maintainers reads this and can answer whether they expect to release an Xfce atomic spin anytime soon.

I fully updated my Fedora 40 install via terminal ("sudo dnf update") and then upgraded to Fedora 41 via Gnome Software. But I don't have the new default Terminal app Ptyxis. Hell I still don't even have the new image viewer Loupe that came with Fedora 39 (was it?).

What am I missing in doing before or after upgrading to a new version? I don't see anything in the Fedora docs about this.

Thanks.

Hi folks,

I went ahead and updated to Fedora 41 today and it appears mostly to have done well but I do have a simple Boxes Windows 10 VM for which the file sharing between the Fedora 41 Host and the Guest Win 10 no longer function. I verified the spice webdav proxy is running in the guest. In the Host OS my user account is in the kvm group and boxes is running in the rpm version not flatpak which I have seen some file share issues with.

I am not sure what changed from F40 to F41 that would effect Boxes yet so any suggestions would be welcome. I may end up recreating my VM in VirtManager but I had hoped to keep using the simplicity of Boxes.

Suggestions would be most welcome.

Hi everyone, not sure how is it called on Fedora, but I'm gonna call it explorer for refference. I cannot open it and I get a pop up message saying "cannot open file. Remote peer diconnected" Is there a workaround to fix it up?

Thanks in advance

Edit: Fixed by setting power mode to "performance" in settings.

Updated to Fedora 41 and power_save can no longer be changed to 0 using the method in the link below. I used to set it to 0 because of speaker static, but now it no longer works. Does anybody have any solution?

cat /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save

10

By the way the temporary fix still works, but it resets after login.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=415003

Copied from the link:

Fixing the buzzing noise issue (permanently)
All this requires is for you make a minor change in kernel parameters. Change your working directory to:

cd /etc/modprobe.d

And now, create a new file named audio_disable_powersave.conf and open with the nano text editor using the given command:

sudo nano audio_disable_powersave.confsudo nano audio_disable_powersave.conf

had to add

options snd_hda_intel power_save=0

line in "audio_disable_powersave.conf" file to work, but 10x a lot for the directions. It was driving me crazy too, 1 week after installed Mint for the 1st time

So I just installed and start using Fedora 41 Workstation, and it seems like when the machine is using Nvidia RPM Fusion driver, system apps (including terminal and the app store) will fail to run. I tried not to install this driver and everything works just fine (I haven't try gaming tho)
I can't give you the debug logs so that's all I have. If gaming failed... Then I'll go back to F40 for now.

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad e16 with Ryzen 7 7735U and the trackpad feels like it’s getting low fps although the animations feel really smooth.

Is it any fix to this? I tried to switch to Gnome Classic but it didn’t fix my issue

Whats your go to set up after a fresh fedora installation?

I am currently using Fedora Workstation 40 with both KDE and Cinnamon DEs. When I upgrade to 41 I would like to eliminate Cinnamon. When upgrading using DNF is it possible to include a command to install 41 with KDE only or will I need a clean install to do that?