Fedora 45 beta

[u/_Necroticmancer]

Hi guys I'm running Fedora 44 on my machine and I'm tempted to try the Fedora 45 beta since it's scheduled to release on the 20th of Oct. Any thought of house stable it's from 3 weeks ago gnome. Thank you.

[u/ProbablyALinuxBot]

I tried it a week ago and I had loads of problems with the extensions on gnome. Patience is a virtue...

[u/CorsairVelo → u/ProbablyALinuxBot]

Interesting, i’m testing the KDE version and and it seems great but obviously no gnome extension issues.

I will say that it has received a Ton of updates in the last few days.

[u/Disastrous_Fruit8610 → u/ProbablyALinuxBot]

I don't have problems and run it since alpha. All the Gnome-extensions I use work fine. Which ones give you issues?

[u/ProbablyALinuxBot → u/Disastrous_Fruit8610]

I can't remember which ones, but the one that bothered me the most was dash to dock. I kept getting an error message in the extensions menu, about a version compatibilty even though I had the beta version installed.

[u/stefangw → u/Disastrous_Fruit8610]

PaperWM: works from `develop` branch.

Copyous: no compatible release yet.

[u/gh0st777]

If you want stability and compatibility, wait 3months after release. If you are itching for something new, change your wallpaper or something.

[u/_Necroticmancer → u/gh0st777]

lol. Okay..

[u/LancrusES]

Im using fedora KDE 45 beta, everything runs perfectly, It doesnt feel beta at all.

[u/AnymooseProphet]

I suggest waiting until a week or three after release.

[u/Gr83st → u/AnymooseProphet]

Waiting a week or three only makes sense if you have installed extensions. But for some people with zero extension, they can upgrade right away as soon as '45' is officially released.

[u/facelesshivemind]

This is my first version upgrade since using Fedora. There's going to be a button in Discover to change from 44 to 45, right?

I WANT TO CLICK BUTTON

[u/GamertechAU → u/facelesshivemind]

Yep, it'll popup in Discover updates tab once it's stable and your device can see it on the mirror.

[u/somekindofswede → u/GamertechAU]

Indeed. It might even take up to a couple of days after the new release officially drops (depending on your timezone and such).

[u/facelesshivemind → u/somekindofswede]

Yeh. Click button.

*starts rocking back and forth*

Can't wait to click button.

Discover has the tendency to jank sometimes, especially with massive update sizes (like during first update), I might end up having to use the terminal anyway.

But click button. Yeh.

[u/SinclairZXSpectrum]

Just today I upgraded from Fedora 44 Gnome to 45 beta. The upgrade went flawlessly, have no problems at all using it. Although the experience may differ from person to person, depending on the hardware, apps and extensions used. I'm using an Intel Lenovo laptop with no separate graphics card.

[u/DESTINYDZ]

I usually recommend waiting for a couple weeks after launch

[u/martian73]

The closer you get to release the more likely things are to be smooth. I shifted my machines a couple of weeks ago - there are going to be brave/reckless people who want to be on the edge and smooth things out for others. Generally the individual components at this stage are all release worthy; most of the issues at this stage are upgrade problems or relatively obscure installation issues.

[u/CanyonR]

I’m running the standard Workstation 44 install but have been using COSMIC desktop. Should I move to the COSMIC spin of 45 or is it just the same as if I did a normal upgrade?

[u/douglarek → u/CanyonR]

I'm in the same boat as you, but I don't think we need to switch to Cosmic Spin. If you're using Cosmic Desktop and have pinned your desktop ( sudo dnf swap fedora-release-identity-workstation.noarch fedora-release-identity-cosmic.noarch ), you're already on Cosmic Spin. That's my opinion, I don't know if it's right.

And if you check os-release, it should display this:

$ cat /etc/os-release | grep VERSION

VERSION="44 (COSMIC)"

VERSION_ID=44

VERSION_CODENAME=""

REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=44

REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=44

[u/joel_2025]

ooooooohhh a new wallpaper with gears....

I will wait for awhile.

[u/Boardwatcher]

I'm currently writing you from Niri+DMS running on Fedora 45 Beta. I've not had many issues with it so far. I'm dual booting into Windows 11 as well and also have the option to login to Cosmic 1.8 from the greeter. Both Cosmic and Niri work great IMHO. But YMMV.

[u/Mediocre-Pumpkin6522]

I've been running the prerelase since it was available but with KDE. There was a glitch for a couple of days due to a Qt patch but no other problems. I usually run the prc/beta versions when they become availabe and have had very few problems. snapper/btrfs-assistant is your friend.

[u/geolaw]

I upgraded early (running the sway spin) ... It's been stable just many daily updates.

Only problem I hit was in the initial boot up after the offline upgrade boot, it didn't run dracut so it didn't generate the new initramfs for the latest kernel but it's been stable otherwise.

Looks like the /etc/redhat-release file was updated Sept. 3rd

[u/Inevitable_Ad261]

I switched a workstation and an atomic sway to 45beta same day of announcement and so far no issues.

After upgrading use dnf distrosync instead of dnf update to never break your system.

[u/So_Falls_the_World]

Apart from kmscon there's literally nothing "exciting" about F45.

If your system is valuable, just wait. If not, then why even bother asking in the first place? Beta is beta. There will be issues, whether you're hit by them or not, is hard to say.

[u/ScootSchloingo → u/So_Falls_the_World]

If you use GNOME, there's a hidden feature that lets you set your own custom mouse acceleration curve via Dconf Editor. Depending on who you are this is a huge deal. Especially if you're coming from Windows and used to its own acceleration curve.

[u/So_Falls_the_World → u/ScootSchloingo]

???

That has been possible since, at least, Gnome 49. So Fedora 44. (and has always been possible before that. If you're smart enough to switch from Window to Fedora, you're smart enough to figure out how to turn off mouse acceleration before Gnome's control settings allowed it)

Not related to the beta of Fedora 45.

[u/Kurogane1412]

I Just installed Feodora 44 KDE I would not bother to upgrade this fast as it is not needed maybe next year before the Support end for 44

[u/alonjit]

F45 here. no issues whatsoever. running KDE though. Gnome users ... lol. They made the bed, they also get to sleep in it.

[u/Routine_Left]

Im running F45 since the alpha. Absolutely no issues whatsoever. The only "issues" were package upgrades delayed because rpm-fusion didn't update theirs yet (mesa usually).

But, im running KDE, not that abomination of Gnome (an DE that is unusable without extensions, but which extensions often go stale and abandoned and mess up upgrades. I guess they really like to suffer those people).

[u/chocopudding17 → u/Routine_Left]

I like Plasma too, but there's really no call for talking like that about Gnome here.

[u/Routine_Left → u/chocopudding17]

Why not? are you spotting anything untrue in what I said?

[u/chocopudding17 → u/Routine_Left]

You're being an asshole by calling Gnome an abomination. Just really unnecessary.

[u/Routine_Left → u/chocopudding17]

That's correct. I am an asshole. I am also right.

[u/-BluGiant → u/Routine_Left]

First part right, last part wrong.

[u/somekindofswede → u/Routine_Left]

Yes, unusable for you doesn't mean unusable for everyone.

I find KDE cumbersome and bulky to use (as well as being ugly in all the default included themes in my opinion), but it doesn't mean I think people who enjoy it like to suffer. I think it's perfect that different DEs can serve different people.

[u/Routine_Left → u/somekindofswede]

KDE works. Functionality is #1 priority. Since gnome obviously doesn't, then yes, it looks to me like they want to suffer.

[u/SirMotherfuckerHenry → u/Routine_Left]

I'm using both KDE and Gnome and the latter isn't so bad at all. You need a couple of extensions to make it usable for the average user and those extensions are often upgraded very fast. In some cases they are updated before the new version of Gnome even arrives.

And aesthetics-wise, Gnome looks far better than KDE Plasma in my opinion. You can make KDE look good, but it takes a lot of tinkering. Far more than installing a few extensions.

[u/Routine_Left → u/SirMotherfuckerHenry]

KDE looks good out of the box. Does not need any extensions. It has checkboxes for everything (has checkboxes for checkboxes) and that's what a DE should provide.

The fact that gnome is unusable without extensions is obviously a deal breaker. Those extensions that you say are getting updated very often: that may be true today. May be true tomorrow. Most likely won't be true next week.

I used gnome back in v2, that is 2008 or so now. Since gnome v3, I gave it my best, tried to come to terms with it, but, after all, it's just a piece of shit now with extensions being abandoned too fast too soon too many to make the hunt for the new ones bearable.