Fedora

Fedora has a new release in April and October of each year.  Fedora 42 was release on October 29, 2024.

The New Gnome Terminal app is:  ptyxis

Dual Booting

My laptop and desktop dual  boots Windows 11 encrypted with VeraCrypt and Fedora 40 (whole disk encrypted).  I boot Fedora 99% of the time. Bitlocker would always ask for the back up key when the GRUB was updated, so I decrypted Bitlocker and encrypted with Veracrypt. It seems Ubuntu installer is not able to automatically handle a Veracrypted Windows install when installing on the same SSD device, the Fedora installer did.

Handy Fedora Commands

sudo dnf update -y

dnf needs-restarting -r

Update Blacklist for Problem Reporting

sudo vi /etc/abrt/abrt-action-save-package-data.conf

Blacklist = spotify

Scale Screen Text

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor 1.25

# ...or use Gnome Tweaks > Fonts > Size (scroll to the bottom of the menu to see it) 

# NOTE:  I had visual artifacts with scaling factor 1.3, but 1.25 was flawless.

Upgrade to New Release

1. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-new-release/

2. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/

Update Script

#!/bin/sh -v

sudo dnf update -y

flatpak update -y

dnf needs-restarting -r

# May need to install the dnf utility for needs-restarting.  (dnf-utils)