I'm on the Fedora Silverblue 41 Beta

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Here’s what’s new in GNOME 47:

Overall the system is in very good shape. I already changed my “accent” color (from blue to green).

My hard drives aren’t displayed in the side panel in Files/Nautilus, but that can come later.

The GNOME Terminal was replaced with Ptyxis, and I had to re-enter my font preference (I need it way bigger than the system font).

And there is no Xorg session – that’s a big one.

I can’t speak to changes in the booting procedure, but I’d certainly like to know more about that.

This is looking to be a great release.

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That Resources app should be available as a regular RPM on Fedora (if it isn’t already; gnome-resources didn’t show anything); I’d like to try it but don’t quite care to entertain a Flatpak yet.

Some of the rest of the changes are pretty awesome! (hw-accelerated screen recording, faster rendering). The Transitous routing service doesn’t see my area’s transit bus (not quite surprising, but getting some GNOME Weather location vibes).

Kind of curious what GNOME 47 is doing to explicitly support VR on Wayland; that sounds cool!

F41 Server beta was pretty calm and boring :stuck_out_tongue: everything I did on F39 also worked on F41 for a quick nginx set-up.

With Workstation 41 beta I’m impressed my 1000Hz mouse finally feels great and comparable to Xorg! That was the main thing that had me still using Xorg. Still had this years-old minor annoyance though (quick-solved with windowing it via launch flag and then setting it back to fullscreen):

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There hasn’t been a new image in a couple days, but the last update brought a new Files/Nautilus app that brought back “open in terminal,” calling it “open in console.”

I haven’t come across any major issues, and the system seems to be very fast, with the CPU (Intel Core i7 7th Gen) running cool.

Ptyxis is worth exploring. On the left side of the window, an arrow allows you to easily open a shell in any of your containers, which for me means Toolbox and Podman. It’s a nice way to integrate containers with the terminal that makes things easier for the user.

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Did you check out the “+ Other Locations”

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I don’t see that in my Files

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By the way: If you still need to use X instead of Wayland (for reasons like color management or accessibility), here’s how to install it on Silverblue:

  • For AMD: Run rpm-ostree install xorg-x11-drv-amdgpu
  • For Intel: Run rpm-ostree install xorg-x11-drv-intel
  • For NVIDIA (the open source driver; I don’t know how to install the proprietary one): Run rpm-ostree install xorg-x11-drv-nouveau

Transactional versions of Fedora using dnf would swap out rpm-ostree for dnf instead.

(There might be a better recommendation, like a generic package that’d “just work” for everyone, but the AMD one worked for me and I’m assuming the Intel and Nouveau ones would work similarly.)

I’ve been on Fedora 41 for a few weeks on Silverblue, and it’s great. I love the accent color too, and Ptyxis is a nice terminal; it’s cool to have it be the default, and with a more generic name and icon.

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