Whats new in Fedora Workstation 41

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Fedora Workstation 41 is the latest release of one of the leading providers of free, open source software, The Fedora Project. This article describes some of the user-facing changes in the newest version of Fedora Workstation. Upgrade today from the official website, or upgrade your existing install using GNOME Software or through the terminal with dnf system-upgrade.

GNOME 47

In Fedora 41 workstation, you can enjoy the latest features the GNOME software release has to offer, plus benefit from an array of system enhancements! Check out the GNOME 47 release notes for more details.

Accent Colors

One of the biggest features to land in GNOME 47, and Fedora Workstation 41, is the option to customize the standard blue accent color of GNOME interfaces. You can now choose from an array of vibrant colors, and customizing couldn’t be simpler – just select a color from the Appearance setting, and enjoy a uniquely-your desktop!

Enhanced Small Screen Support

This added support means user who have lower resolution screens will have a better experience as icons will be optimized and scaled for easier interaction and better visibility on smaller screens.

New Style Dialogue Windows

In GNOME 47, the dialogue windows have a new style. This is intended to enhance usability across many screen sizes. This benefits everyone, but especially users who work on compact laptops and mobiles, and this upgrade means the dialogues work more effectively and they can adapt seamlessly to different environments. For added fun, try it out with custom accent colors!

IPU6 Camera support

In Fedora Workstation 41, we have added integrated support into Fedora Linux for Intel IPU6 attached MIPI cameras using the IPU6 CSI-receiver together with libcamwera’s 0.3 software ISP support in Firefox through PipeWire. This means a much better experience for users with newer camera models, and users will be able to see the camera icon in the top bar in GNOME if and when your camera is on.

IBus Chewing for Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) Desktop enabled by Default

The default input method for Traditional Chinese has changed to ibus-chewing in Fedora Workstation 41. This change makes Fedora Linux more friendly to users as ibus-chewing is maintained by native speakers and the upstream is active. Much less reliance on Google Translate when reporting issues! It even has multi dictionary so users can load domain specific dictionaries.

Nvidia Driver Install Support

Returning to Fedora Workstation in Fedora Linux 41 is support for installing Nvidia drivers with secureboot. By using mokutil, users can install the drivers, create a key with mokutil to self-sign the drivers, and provide a password for the key. On the next reboot the user is presented with the mokutil interface to enroll the key. For a how-to on using mokutil, please refer to the docs page. With this support now added, installation of Nvidia drivers on Fedora Linux 41 is now more accessible than ever!

Ptyxis as the new Terminal App

Ptyxis is a terminal for GNOME with first-class support for containers, and works really well for Flatpaks as this is the intended distribution mechanism. This is now the default terminal app in GNOME 47 and Fedora Workstation 41 and brings features such as terminal inspector to help you debug issues when writing applications for the terminal, native support for light/dark mode and user-customizable keyboard shortcuts.

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52 Comments

  1. RG

    Nice job on the nvidia drivers

    • Danila

      Does it support X Elite?

    • Josh

      I mean, with the nvidia drivers, you could always do it before with secure boot (I’ve done it since 36), but I’m sure they made the process much easier.

  2. ocean

    Won’t install because of nvidia drivers, sweet. Also, maybe make Japanese work out of the box???

    • Michael Braley

      I am curious. Why does it matter if it has better support for Nvidia systems? Isn’t the end goal of Linux is to have first class support for all systems – regardless of their issues? I know that none of us are happy with the extremely proprietary route that Nvidia has taken; however, it can’t be argued, they have the best hardware currently.

    • Jens Petersen

      maybe make Japanese work out of the box???

      Do you mean the default installation language? Unfortunately geolocation is not currently working, but if you select Japanese it should work fine (Japanese support is installed by default).

      Japanese should work fine.

  3. Ivan

    https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/4099 Mutter 47.1 doesn’t include this changes yet in the new release of Fedora. How can I add this to my system? There’s an estimated ETA for when this fix is going to be added to mutter?

  4. Robert

    Please somebody break it down simple for me. why change the default terminal? I had to ditch it from zero. Confused.

  5. Frank

    Xsensors is TOO BIG in Version 41

  6. Kingsley Omon-Edo

    As they say, “you can’t have a second chance to make a first impression”. And I can say that my fist look at Fedora 41 has been quite impressive and satisfying.

    Fedora 41 with the Gnome desktop (version 47) feels much faster and responsive than the version of Fedora 40 on a VM with similar specs, which is a welcome improvement. The accent color feature is also nice, though personally I think the default blue color of Fedora is more professional and will keep that.

    Furthermore, I think the new default terminal is a much welcome refresh of the terminal experience on the Gnome desktop. It is more modern and feature complete in my opinion.

    So Fedora 41’s first impression to me is quite satisfactory.

    Cheers.

    Kingsley

  7. SunnatBEK

    HP ENVY x360 Convertible 15-dr1xxx

    I have been since 2020
    for my laptop above,
    original fingerprint, I am waiting for support :/

  8. Václav

    After update from Fedora 40 to 41 “Open in Console” option disappeared from Files (v47.0). Is this a bug? “Show in Files” in Console (v47.1) still works though.

  9. Ivan

    i am using a , Lenovo ThinkBook 14 G2 ITL, the current fedora 40 does not support its finger print login. does not work too well. I hope this 41 will fix this. The finger print device disconnects when you setting it up.

    • Mutombo

      This has nothing to do with Gnome or Fedora. The Support for fingerprinting can only be done if Lenovo released the driver’s for the fingerprint reader. Ask Lenovo for that.

  10. Udało mi się zrobić upgrade z wersji 40 na 41 bez żadnych problemów 🙂 pozdrawiam serdecznie

  11. Ednan Penteado

    Achei bom as mudanças.

  12. Frank reid

    No login screen on my desktop. Had to reload.

  13. I rendered astonished regarding download speed up, towards dnf5, I suppose. Wayland sort of more stability, chiefly as I have an AMD 6570. Driver for it seems more responsible, stable and I will test it without the Kernel Parameter:

    amdgpu.gttsize=2048

    (this parameter made my old card freeze a lot minus!).

  14. realthk

    Gone is the transparent background option for Gnome Terminal 🙁

  15. al_bin

    “One of the biggest features to land in GNOME 47, and Fedora Workstation 41, is the option to customize the standard blue accent color of GNOME interfaces. ”

    Really?
    It’s time to replace Fedora with Windows

    • GNOME != Fedora Linux. If you don’t like GNOME, there are several other Desktop Environments you can try and still remain in the Fedora Linux ecosystem. 🙂

      • al_bin

        I like both. But if this is the biggest new feature, then I don’t like the direction both (as in the quote) are evolving.

      • Mike

        Personally, I’ve been running Fedora KDE full time since just after 40 was released. I like it much more than any of the Gnome 3.x/4x releases. And why in the world would one replace Fedora with Windows?

  16. Bo

    Such a smooth upgrade. Thanks!

  17. ..

    wenn ich es aktualisire und 41 installire bleiben dann meine daten einstellungen usw… bestehen?

    • Bo

      Yes, works just like a normal upgrade.

    • pii

      ja, es ist nur ein upgrade, wie ein update! Also keine Neuinstallation oder dergleichen. Deine Daten bleiben sicher.

      also safe:)

  18. sorry i dont see ptyxis exist in my desktop.
    actually im using fedora gnome 41 and have updated to latest update

  19. Peter

    Is anyone facing the same issue, like if I type “sudo dnf upda” and hit the tab key (what should autocomplete the command to “sudo dnf update”), that it will be autocompleted into “sudo dnf updateinfo”… WTH!!!? That happend never ever before and I’m using Fedora since version 30… 😀

    Any ideas?

    • Jens Petersen

      Maybe related to dnf5? Can you check for/report a bug?

      I didn’t even know that bash completions work after sudo. ;o)

      • Peter

        Thanks for your input! I will try to report this. I can’t believe that this was planned to be chagend bc this has never been different since ages.

        Glad I could “teach” sth by mentioning a possible bug 😀

  20. Luis Leonel

    Thank you for creating this wonderful Linux distribution.

  21. Felix

    Nice to hear IPU cameras will work now 🎉

  22. Romas

    I have upgraded Fedora 40 to 41. The terminal prompt still is
    …@fedora40
    and
    emacs@fedora40

    uname -a
    Linux fedora40 6.11.6-300.fc41.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Nov 1 16:16:00 UTC 2024 x86_64 GNU/Linux

    Settings -> System gives
    Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition)

    Why does fedora40 still appears in some cases?

  23. everett

    {bleeped by moderator} please add on the settings. the ability to move the timea and date infor to where we would like for it to be on the screen.
    and please please please put in the settings the ability to move that left upper corner control . so we can locate it where iti is for best use by the individual linux user

  24. Timmy

    Awesome

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