F42 - > F43 problems reported

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Hi,

I’m asking to the regulars. Are there more problems upgrading to F43 more than previos versions? I started with F38 and upgraded version one by one to F42. I see so many problems reported with F43 that I’m still on F42 and I seriously consider waiting for F44, hoping it’s more solid.

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Just personal experience, but I upgraded two F42 machines to F43 in late Dec / early Jan, and it has been trouble-free.

I do have the impression that in the early days after F43, the upgrade was quite bumpy, but seems to me that it has settled down since then.

Caveat - I don’t have Wine, which has been one of the main upgrade pain points, but should now be fixed.

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Glad to read all went well for you. Taking that into consideration.

Wine: no biggie. Just uninstall it and reinstall after upgrade. Someone reported recently it was fixed as you pointed out. Someone also reported it wasn’t. I just read it earlier today. Maybe in the same post, can’t recall for sure.
Bottom line: F42 is working flawlessly so if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. I might stick to this and skip that version. Fedora ain’t Debian.

Thanks for your reply.

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There have been issues in Gnome and KDE - maybe they are resolved, maybe not.
With F43 itself - it has been great!

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KDE has been all good for me!

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Sweet! Most people are not having probs, but there were a lot of reports at the beginning of 43 on the forums - more with Gnome - but also some KDE

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Thanks for the reply. Nice, I’m with Cinnamon. I have had problems with early versions of KDE where all my config was wiped after a crash so I avoid it since. Gnome’s not for me either. On Debian I run xfce. I tested it years ago, it was lighter than either Gnome or KDE so I stuck with it. I don’t particularly like reconfiguring everything. At one time I had Gnome, KDE, Compiz and Enlightenment all installed and configured. On a 386 or 486. As you can see, I’m not using any of them anymore.

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There are multiple iissues affecting F43. Some are due to multi-year trends:

  1. changes to the installer meant some users couldn’t install F43 so had to install F42 and then upgrade
  2. lots of new users with systems that don’t easily support Windows 11 so thinking about moving to Linux. Users moving from Windows often fail to understand that Linux support is a community effort, and expect a quick fix from a vague problem report rather than a) checking forums for existing solutions and b) providing data in a web-searchable report that will enable other users with similar hardware and issues to discover their problem report.
  3. bad advice from AI’s leading users to break things
  4. space needed for /boot has been increasing and finally hit the point where some configurations run out of space when upgrading
  5. the number of Linux developers has kept up with increasing demands to maintain legacy software, support AI and new hardware, etc.

Note that Windows and macOS are also suffering from many of the same trends.

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I agree with everything you said. This is a deep analysis of the current situation. IMO this tendency will increase.