How to prevent issue when upgrading to F41 (from F39) - Nvidia Laptop

Hi there,

TL;DR: I got this message…

So I guess I’m going to upgrade to F41 but since I had some mishaps in the passed after upgrading Fedora version - mainly grub issues, I wanted to know, what should I consider to be sure I won’t mess up my computer?

I have a not so traditional setup (with BTRFS and Luks - installed F36 using this guide from sysguides.com a couple years ago)

Mainly, is there a way I can run e.g. the grub update command at one step before some restarts?


I started using Fedora since F36 on my laptop (Asus Zenbok). At that time I was mainly a Manjaro user (on a desktop computer).

I ended up using Fedora Gnome as it was the only distro (and I tried almost all the main distros) that worked almost out of the box (I still do not have any sound on my internal speaker but apparently this is an Asus issue with the kernel). I guess that having 2 touchscreens and an Nvidia GPU is not helping with compatibility.

Anyway, I then upgraded to F37 and F38 without any issue (or not that I remember).
But when I switched to F39, it was very painful and had a hard time fixing the issue - and most importantly recovering the OS/my workflow).

I really don’t recall what I did but it was mainly related to grub.

So, since then I did not rush to upgrade to the next release (F40) and wanted to wait some time - indeed I was reading here and there people having issues…

Then F41 came out, but I also wanted to wait and see - but it seems there is still people having various issues here and there.

I knew that at one point I would upgrade… But I was surprised that F39 is already phased out.

Thanks for any information on any matter I need to pay attention.

Fedora is upgrading releases about once every 6 months (generally April & October), and each release is only supported for about 13 months. Since f39 was released in October 2023 it went EOL in November 2024.

Most fedora users remain aware of the fedora life cycle and update regularly to remain current.

Instructions for upgrading are here.

If you are concerned about the issues encountered you may wish to upgrade to f40 first and wait a while so f41 has a little more time to mature before making that step.