We are happy to announce the general availability of Fedora Asahi Remix 44. This release brings Fedora Linux 44 to Apple Silicon Macs.
Fedora Asahi Remix is developed in close collaboration with the Fedora Asahi SIG and the Asahi Linux project. This release incorporates all of the exciting improvements brought by Fedora Linux 44. Fedora Asahi Remix 44 also retires our vendored Mesa and virglrenderer packages. Users who have not already manually done so will be automatically transitioned to the upstream Mesa and virglrenderer packages provided by the upstream Fedora repositories.
Fedora Asahi Remix offers KDE Plasma 6.6 as our flagship desktop experience, with all of the new and exciting features brought by Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 44. Plasma Setup replaces the previous Calamares-based setup wizard, providing a Plasma-native experience for user account creation and system setup. Additionally, Plasma Login Manager is now the default greeter and session manager, replacing SDDM. This applies to new installs only; users upgrading from previous versions of Fedora Asahi Remix will not have their configuration changed.
A GNOME variant is also available, featuring GNOME 50, with both desktop variants matching what Fedora Linux offers. Fedora Asahi Remix also provides a Fedora Server variant for server workloads and other types of headless deployments. Finally, we offer a Minimal image for users that wish to build their own experience from the ground up.
You can install Fedora Asahi Remix today by following our installation guide. Existing systems running Fedora Asahi Remix 42 or 43 can be updated following the usual Fedora upgrade process. Upgrades via GNOME’s Software application are unfortunately not supported; either KDE’s Plasma Discover or DNF’s System Upgrade command must be used.
Please report any Remix-specific issues in our tracker, or reach out in our Discourse forum or our Matrix room for user support.
Peter Hird (UK)
Back to where I started in Fedora43 but no harm done, got this report message in Discover
Failed to update 0 packages
Failed to download metadata (metalink: “https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f44&arch=aarch64”) for repository “updates”: Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Curl error (6): Could not resolve hostname for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f44&arch=aarch64 [Could not resolve host: mirrors.fedoraproject.org]
Gregory Bartholomew
That might be worth reporting on ask.fedoraproject.org. Thanks.
Zoran Milanovic
I had about the same error when upgrading, in my case it was a package I had installed from a COPR that I had removed already and hence couldn’t upgrade.
Before that I also had a COPR which had no fc44 release, thought I’d mention it, because I can’t tell which issue actually caused the error, since I fixed both in one go.
I hope this may be helpful in resolving the issue you’re encountering.
Paul
I used dnf command line and was updated.
Peter Hird (UK)
Suggestedworkround for earlier problem upgrading that worked for me
sudo dnf –releasever=44 system-upgrade download
sudo dnf offline reboot
David Jarvis
I just converted my M1max MBP to Asahi Fed44-XDE. Was flawless, once Gemini helped me get rid of 641gb of crud to make room for it!
And loving Plasma on Fedora. I had tried it back around F42 on my desktop, and had some problems with printers and Citrix for work apps. Don’t know if that will be the case now. But either way, MacOS was driving me nuts, bouncing my windows all over the place! I use Kubuntu 26.04 on my desktop; having the same look and feel, but getting to use Fedora more for a little variety….. icing on the cake!
RD
upgrade from asahi linux 43 to 44 on Macbook Air M2 failed indicating there is such url even after downloading 2400+ packages of Asahi Linux 44 and repeated reboots
Jens Bollmann
Hard to find a post which says:
‘It works!’ – all posts are complaining of malfunctioning – unfortunately I have an intel mac and all fedora versions works like a glance.