If you're on Nvidia, expect the drivers to break now and then in fedora.

Using it since January, and nvidia akmod broke once due to kernel changes required a new nvidia driver and fedora didn't give a damn and rpmfusion was a day late or so.

But you could still boot the old kernel and it worked.

I had issues with discover actually not treating system updates properly and rebooting several times since it just didn't install all packages downloaded. That's far better in Gnome, no idea if that's fixed by now since I still try to give Gnome a fair chance :-).

For Nvidia and the rpmfusion: in Gnome there was a start screen where you enabled them with a click and just had to install akmod-nvidia and kernel-devel, which for some reason did not get installed by akmod but it requires it.

Otherwise I'm pretty satisfied with Fedora. I'd prefer official nvidia support too, but it is how it is.

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Finally the re-download stuff gets a fix. That was really annoying the hell out of me.

Wondering if that fixes the re-download and shader pre caching on pretty much every start. That will show, but I doubt they really had updates to the games sometimes every hour or so.

No, it's not my download cache ;-)

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Basically hooking into the debug engine adding a plugin option?

That's smart.

For the ones having fears: if I judge the code right it can not do too much. Plugins seem to be limited to the sidebar, and they show information there provided by the javascript plugin. I doubt cheating can or ever would be implemented that way. Not really feasable. You could add config options for external cheat tools though, but that would be an easy layer for detection, and they would not want that.

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Oh damn, I need that extension! How else am I got plaster my toilet walls with nice gaming screenshots! Taking screenshots and printing them one by one is a lot of effort!

And this is not an april fools joke! It's real work!

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Compiling shaders twice a day, nothing is more fun :D. Though, the peripheral stuff did not hit me, but it would be annoying if it did (I have a lot of Unity games I play).

The speed they fixed this at was pretty impressive.

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Actually, switching the GTK theme in gnome tweaks to adwaita-dark does the trick. No idea why the "dark mode" does not set it for legacy applications, but that may be an incentive to gnome devs to actually adopt (the "we do stuff, you adopt and we don't care" attitude they showed in the past, not caring for the actual user experience. I think it bad practice though in terms of consistency while I understand wanting to push applications to use the new adwaita theming to be consistent with the rest, but I think at least minimal compatibility could have been kept.

Though, of course the incentive for developers to adopt would be less.

I do not understand the issue of them not deploying a systray either, relying on a plugin. Legacy support cut down (which pretty much comes down to fedora defaults) is a bit crap.

I think Gnome and Fedora defaults are at fault here. I understand the incentive of not doing stuff to make people migrate, but actually... that's a little bit much on the user.

By now I really got adopted to the Gnome (default) workflow though, and I have to say .. I expected it to be terrible by the description, and it isn't, it' actually pretty great. I though I could not live with the app switch mechanic, and it turns out - I do like it. Especially since I can keep one screen the same (mostly docs and shell), and switch applications (or rather activities) just on my primary screen pretty efficiently switching between the different applications (or the library and application in two source code editors) while keeping the shell and docs on screen. That really helps my workflow.

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Quoting: drlambIf you're okay with running a beta release of Fedora you can already upgrade to Fedora 36 and get GNOME 42. The official beta release iso should be coming tomorrow.

I just used this documentation to upgrade to fc36 pre-release: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/dnf-system-upgrade/ [External Link]

If I understood it correctly it put me on some branch where I am on fc36 now and I won't even need to do another upgrade from beta to release because if the branch becomes stable dnf will do that for me.

Dark mode looks good, I like the dual wallpaper thing.

May need to switch back to Xorg though, vscode is not working in Wayland unless you --enable-features=Vulkan which will get overwritten on every code update. But that's only a selection on login anyway :D.

I am not really sure but I think we see a downside of client side window decorations now where a lot of apps do not respect the adwaita theming, thus making apps look even more out of place if they have not been updated and having white title bars instead of using dark ones.

Or just GTK themes are not applied properly for dark mode.

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Quoting: drlambIf you're okay with running a beta release of Fedora you can already upgrade to Fedora 36 and get GNOME 42. The official beta release iso should be coming tomorrow.

I've had no issues upgrading to a beta release in my years of using Fedora.

Thought about it already, have to read into how to upgrade to beta or in general fedora releases (I am pretty new to Fedora), I am currently reluctant to reinstall again.

But if I am not mistaken it's less than a month away from release, I think my eyes probably will survive that. Maybe. Hopefully.

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Did so. I just switched to Gnome this month to give it a fair shot. Now I can't wait for 42, missing real dark mode :-(.

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And Valve stops paying ukraine devs. Shame on you Gabe.

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