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There's a lot of the usual background upgrades bumping up the versions of various software included, but plenty of user-facing improvements too. Across different spins of Fedora, you should now see their newer Anaconda WebUI installer for example. GNOME in Fedora is also now Wayland-only coming in with GNOME 49 with all the goodies that gives you like a new video player, an improved GNOME Software app store and much more.
On the KDE side you get Plasma 6.4 which also has a whole lot new like per-workspace tiling options, accessibility upgrades, drawing tablet improvements and lots more.
Pictured - Fedora Linux KDE 43
One major background change is the swap over to RPM 6 for packages. This should be transparent to users, but comes with many benefits to security. And, starting with this release the installer will no longer support installing Fedora on disks that use Master Boot Record (MBR) while in UEFI boot mode on 32-bit x86 systems, it will instead enforce the use of the modern GUID Partition Table (GPT). This only affects new installs. Another seemingly small change, but one needed, is that the /boot partition has been bumped up to 2 GiB due to increasing sizes of everything like firmware, initramfs and more.
See more in the release notes. And various blog post announcements.
In case you missed it recently, we also had the news about Fedora officially allowing AI-assisted contributions. Which, going by all the comments and quotes on our Bluesky post, has not been received well at all.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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simplyseven a day ago
Plasma has been a massive upgrade in user-experience for me personally. I was pretty firmly into less aggressive window managers (Xfce, WindowMaker) and always felt like GNOME/KDE were heavy and unnecessary. Plasma feels light and responsive...it might be anecdotal/personal but I've been enjoying it.
THAT BEING SAID
Fedora Linux Project agrees to allow AI assisted contributions with a new policy
So you know...
THAT BEING SAID
Fedora Linux Project agrees to allow AI assisted contributions with a new policy
So you know...
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There was a point in time when I considered Fedora to be a great middle-ground distro between rolling releases and the slower stable releases, but after the ai update, I'll never consider it for anything ever again.
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...but after the ai update, I'll never consider it for anything ever again.
Given the amount of backlash they're seeing over it, I imagine they'll have changed tact by the time Fedora 44 comes out.
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I'll update my computer when I get home later. I just can't be bothered shopping around and potentially changing distros at this point, but because of the AI thing I'd rather not use them for future installs. It's a shame too because Fedora's actually a really good distro.
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There was a point in time when I considered Fedora to be a great middle-ground distro between rolling releases and the slower stable releases, but after the ai update, I'll never consider it for anything ever again.
Don't worry, even with all the AI stuff, Fedora will still be more mature than CachyOS with its Zenity-based GUI tools. :-)
And Fedora Workstation (Silverblue) is 90% stock upstream GNOME (that does not allow AI based contributions) anyway. (Not sure about the KDE variant though, but I suppose it will be similar.)
Last edited by AsciiWolf on 28 Oct 2025 at 3:54 pm UTC
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Why can't they create an AI spin and call it FedorAI?
Because puns make some people unreasonably angry, and they probably get enough death threats as is.
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I'm a bit meh when it comes to Fedora officially accepting AI because a large number of (probably most) packages are pulled in directly from upstream. So while other distributions may not have a policy on AI one way or the other, if upstream is using AI they will have little to no say unless they want to re-create everything themselves, or start cherry-picking and rewriting patches without AI.
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I don't understand some criticisms.
Wasn't always Fedora the testbed for everything new?
Is there any more suitable candidate to test AI-created code on Linux?
Am I the only who recalls the backlash when they were first to make Gnome 3 and wayland default?
Wasn't always Fedora the testbed for everything new?
Is there any more suitable candidate to test AI-created code on Linux?
Am I the only who recalls the backlash when they were first to make Gnome 3 and wayland default?
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I for one am really happy about this. 2 years on fedora and so far it's been a bliss compared to all other distro I tried.
(as for the AI part, posted my opinion in the other post as that was more relevant than here)
(as for the AI part, posted my opinion in the other post as that was more relevant than here)
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Love Fedora. Have been running the KDE version for years. But everyone is focused on AI. I have been experimenting with a self hosted Ollama instance and I notice that I am becoming a very lazy programmer. My fear is that people will lose their creativity. The power to figure something our themselves. And before AI we went to forums to discus things. Together. People talking to people. Now I am talking to a bot.
Glad that there are still people here. You are not bots right? Right?
Glad that there are still people here. You are not bots right? Right?
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Just the other day got a new-old (second-hand) tiny computer for my father (because his previous one was on it's last legs) and while it came with win10 I decided to put Linux on it. Started with OpenSUSE but while it installed OK, it didn't use selected language (despite setting it in the installer). After trying to fix that and bumping agains "use yarn" (which is not present in Leap 16) I decided to try fedora and EverythingJustWorked and it's brilliant... really liking the OS.
And the KDE on this tiny machine (Intel Core i5-7500T + ntel HD Graphics 530) works amazing!
And the KDE on this tiny machine (Intel Core i5-7500T + ntel HD Graphics 530) works amazing!
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ssj17vegeta 18 hours ago
Hmmm... Seems some of you guys are completely misunderstanding the stance of Fedora on AI ? :/
What they've done is basically acknowledging the fact that it's impossible to check whether their contributors are using AI or not in their developments. So they're doing the only reasonable thing about it : officially allowing people to use it.
And since most developers already use AI, whether it's simple auto-complete agents in IDEs or problem-solving agents, their decision has little impact whatsoever. They wouldn't have a way to enforce an anti-AI policy. It's not even a matter of pro VS anti AI debate.
And STILL people are freaking out about it. For like... no reason ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What they've done is basically acknowledging the fact that it's impossible to check whether their contributors are using AI or not in their developments. So they're doing the only reasonable thing about it : officially allowing people to use it.
And since most developers already use AI, whether it's simple auto-complete agents in IDEs or problem-solving agents, their decision has little impact whatsoever. They wouldn't have a way to enforce an anti-AI policy. It's not even a matter of pro VS anti AI debate.
And STILL people are freaking out about it. For like... no reason ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Glad that there are still people here. You are not bots right? Right?
...I can't legally answer that.
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And STILL people are freaking out about it. For like... no reason ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They should be freaking out because we shouldn’t be allowing it at all. Beyond the ethical and legal implications for an open source project, there’s also the outsized environmental impact of every single prompt because of the data centers required to host these LLMs. It’s not good.
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Wasn't always Fedora the testbed for everything new?Not every new thing is the same.
It would be new to have the default desktop do a constant strobe effect at the best frequency for inducing seizures. And yet, new though the idea is, I suspect some would have quibbles about it. Some people just don't understand progress.
Last edited by Purple Library Guy on 28 Oct 2025 at 11:13 pm UTC
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I'm conscious about my boot times, so getting ~2 seconds faster boots is a nice feature!
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ssj17vegeta 16 hours ago
They should be freaking out because we shouldn’t be allowing it at all. Beyond the ethical and legal implications for an open source project, there’s also the outsized environmental impact of every single prompt because of the data centers required to host these LLMs. It’s not good.
Again, you (and the people freaking out) are missing the point : it's not a question of being pro or anti AI. AI is here, it's being used, and neither Fedora nor ANY project, open-source or not, have the means to enforce or forbid the use of AI from their contributors. Just like : if I build a chair, there's no way to know I used a saw of brand X or Y.
I mean, what would you have them do ? Requiring the installation of a spyware on the contributors' computers and manually review recorded videos to make sure the coder never used an AI ever ? Who would take the time to view those videos ? Who would spy on the coders ? What if the project has several contributors, or if the contributor used another person's work, like, for example, dependencies or external libraries ? How do you check that ?
Again, and finally. I'm not making a pro-AI speech, your concerns are perfectly valid. But your expectations are unrealistic and unfeasible.
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I can only say, thank you Linux community, thank you Linux for still being my home after all these years, specially knowing how some other system has treated their users recently. 
Thank you Gamingonlinux for your updates. Thank you Liam as it's always a pleasure to follow your website.
Almost all of you if not all, are using Linux and contributing to open source in one way or another just by the use of it.
Nope, I'm not drunk or similar. I just felt the urge to say it.
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Thank you Gamingonlinux for your updates. Thank you Liam as it's always a pleasure to follow your website.
Almost all of you if not all, are using Linux and contributing to open source in one way or another just by the use of it.
Nope, I'm not drunk or similar. I just felt the urge to say it.
Last edited by Minux on 29 Oct 2025 at 2:16 am UTC
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