Differences with Fedora

This page documents Ultramarine Linux’s 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

• 📦 This is packaged in Terra
• 🛳️ This ships existing Fedora packages
• 🔥 This is a significant breaking change

Ultramarine 40

• 🔥 Change default package manager to dnf5 (dnf5-default-package-manager)
• Remove Fedora bookmarks in Firefox (ultramarine-phony-bookmarks)
• Drop Pantheon Edition
• ultramarine-fun
• 🛳️ git
• 🛳️ XFCE Edition
• Improve key bindings for zsh
• Supported by Raspberry Pi Imager
• Use ext4 instead of btrfs 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 🌇 by Aikoyori
• 📦 System76 Scheduler (significantly better scheduling for low-end devices)
  • 📦 KWin Script for system76-scheduler Integration
• Numerous popular GNOME extensions
  • 🛳️ AppIndicator/KStatusNotifierItem support (gnome-shell-extension-appindicator)
  • 🛳️ Pop shell extension (gnome-shell-extension-pop-shell)
  • 🛳️ Support for keyboard selection of windows and workspaces in GNOME Shell (gnome-shell-extension-windowsNavigator)
  • 🛳️ Bringing back the app menu (gnome-shell-extension-appmenu-is-back)
  • 📦 Pop Launcher (pop-launcher)
• 🛳️ Most drivers and codecs
• 🛳️ Guest Desktop Agents (@guest-desktop-agents)
• 📦 sipa-fonts (Thai National Fonts)
• 🛳️ Mozc (Japanese Input Method Editor)
• 📦 Pantheon Edition (@pantheon-desktop) (deprecated since UM40)
• 📦 Starship
• Custom Budgie Layout that focuses on simplicity

(last update: 2024-08-12)