Differences with Fedora
This page documents Ultramarine Linuxβs significant changes compared with a typical Fedora workstation setup.
Changes listed below are nonexhaustive and cumulative, meaning each section contains changes from all the section below it.
Emoji meanings
- π¦ This is packaged in Terra
- π³οΈ This ships existing Fedora packages
- π₯ This is a significant breaking change
Ultramarine 40
- π₯ Change default package manager to
dnf5
(dnf5-default-package-manager
) - Remove Fedora bookmarks in Firefox (
ultramarine-phony-bookmarks
) - Drop Pantheon Edition
ultramarine-fun
- π³οΈ
git
- π³οΈ XFCE Edition
- Improve key bindings for
zsh
- Supported by Raspberry Pi Imager
- Use
ext4
instead ofbtrfs
for Raspberry Pis
Before Ultramarine 40
- Out of box repositories: Terra, full set of RPM Fusion, Flathub
- IP MTU probing enabled (which fixes Ubisoft Connect games)
- Custom wallpapers π by Aikoyori
- π¦ System76 Scheduler (significantly better scheduling for low-end devices)
- Numerous popular GNOME extensions
- π³οΈ AppIndicator/KStatusNotifierItem support (
gnome-shell-extension-appindicator
) - π³οΈ Pop shell extension (
gnome-shell-extension-pop-shell
) - π³οΈ Support for keyboard selection of windows and workspaces in GNOME Shell (
gnome-shell-extension-windowsNavigator
) - π³οΈ Bringing back the app menu (
gnome-shell-extension-appmenu-is-back
) - π¦ Pop Launcher (
pop-launcher
)
- π³οΈ AppIndicator/KStatusNotifierItem support (
- π³οΈ Most drivers and codecs
- π³οΈ Guest Desktop Agents (
@guest-desktop-agents
) - π¦
sipa-fonts
(Thai National Fonts) - π³οΈ Mozc (Japanese Input Method Editor)
- π¦
Pantheon Edition ((deprecated since UM40)@pantheon-desktop
) - π¦ Starship
- Custom Budgie Layout that focuses on simplicity
(last update: 2024-08-12)