Fedora's 40th Release: A Quick Look and Overview

It's hard to believe, but Fedora has just published the project's 40th release, which comes with GNOME 46 and Linux kernel 6.8. In this video, Jay gives you his thoughts on the latest version of the popular Linux desktop.

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00:00 - Intro
01:36 - Store
02:11 - First look at Fedora 40 (GNOME)
04:02 - Fedora 40 is boring, but Good
05:46 - Overall thoughts on Fedora 40

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[stemid]

I have this theory that Fedora grew into poplarity as the open source ecosystem matured. Because Fedora was always a testing ground for Red Hat, so it always had the latest open source packages. Normally distros would avoid that to remain stable. But programming has matured so much in the last 15 years that open source projects have gotten rid of a lot of the instability issues that created distros such as Debian stable. So Fedora just organically grew into an amazing distro by following the latest open source releases as they matured.

[samnwakefield]

Fedora 40 is a power beast overall stability and perfomance while gaming even on a gtx 1650 ...would likely recommend to anyone.

[helloimatapir]

Can't go wrong with Fedora GNOME or KDE.

[slizgi]

It is not boring, it is mature and developed, as how every UI should be in operating system. And finally Nautilus have the clickable path, no more CTRL+L shenanigans. Last thing, properly working background apps and their taskbar icon representation with options, and we have a complete solid base. Plus of course further Wayland polishing, but that will happen anyway.

[MrMoogle]

Mint and Fedora are my two go-to distros these days. I like the boring and reliable options. Just picked up a Thinkpad X1 Nano and will be installing Fedora 40 on it this weekend.

[UtahTaffer]

I'm considering moving to Fedora 40 or Nobara from Win 10, I don't want anything to do with Win 11 with the upcoming spyware.

[vanillabeans]

I migrated away from Windows because of the telemetry (and other issues) this year; after getting the barebones hang of Linux and distro-hopping like a madman, I've finally settled on Fedora as my go-to; I'm incredibly satisfied with it and glad I switched!

[angelnaydev]

Oh, I configured Debian 12 with GNOME, set it up, and for now, I don't plan on jumping back and forth. :D

[declancottle]

I've been using fedora 40 since it's stable release, and I haven't seen a single problem from 39 to 40. When updating from 38 to 39 I had some issues with gnome software not updating everything, but just using dnf system-upgrade is nearly just as easy. Fedora has been solid for the year that I've been using it as my main desktop, and it keeps getting better.

[colin-kpsl]

I think that Jay and his channel should be applauded for all the work he has put into the very many tutorials concerning Fedora Workstation 40. But what about showing new users the basic everyday commands they should learn in order that they get the most out of this great operating system?

[cientifiko]

I love Debian but I had to change to fedora because a molecular modeling package was very hard to compile in Debian, but it worked on fedora, and I am impressed with fedora.

[Isassi]

Going to install Fedora 40 on one of my laptops! Thanks for the video!

[bhavindave]

How fast time flies, I was following my professor for getting CD for fedora4 or fedora3 and now after almost 12 years later its fedora 40

[RedVelocityTV]

Would appreciate if you can do an actual review of KDE spin

[Enzoss]

i like the new intro, good looking, clean and overall a banger

[RonMaximilian]

And It just works! I am so happy with it because it hasn't have any idle freezes unlike Manjaro

[saidneder]

Thank you so much Jay for the Linux essential course!!! That's a great jump and I'm glad you are entering the education space!

[LiveLife]

Can you do a review of Bluefin, Aurora, and Bazzite v3.0?

[WiseManTimeLord]

After a session with GPT, it determined this was currently the best solution for emulating an OS at almost native speeds with AMD hardware, hopefully this is the one, the main OS to host all other OS's, finally FOUND!

[kbaeve]

Did they finally get a Snapper/btrfs rollback setup like OpenSUSE?