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

Can't go wrong with Fedora GNOME or KDE.

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.

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

The KDE Spin is fantastic

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I occasionally dip into Linux distros to see if things have moved on. Tried this one for a bit, but the stock Gnome has such odd design decisions. Like, having to move the mouse all the way top left, then all the way back down to the app button, then back up to select an app! Why don't windows have proper title bars so you can drag them? Instead you have to hunt for the bit on the title bar that doesn't have buttons or menus, madness.

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

Will you be creating courses for LPIC 1 & 2 as well?

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?

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

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.

It was the best distribution that worked well with my laptop's hardware

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!

What is that keyboard with a scroll wheel?

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!

Jay is going through his emo phase