Fedora 35 Workstation
I’ve been using Mate since GNOME 2 was shelved, then tried out Cinnamon for a short while which I wasn’t that fond of at the time then briefly switched to LXDE. That didn’t rock my world so I jumped to XFCE which I really liked a lot while trying to get used to the new GNOME for a long time, almost every release of Fedora the new GNOME just didn’t cut it for my daily work. But now that Fedora 35 released and some positive changes been made over the years to GNOME so I decided let’s try it once again. To my surprise, seems to work really well with Wayland and nVidia on the new laptop from work it seems to me the integrated Intel graphics is used but when running 3D programs it uses the nVidia card and my Workstation at home works well with X11, I have to test this a bit more since on the work computer though. But initially it’s a smooth experience with Fedora 35, GNOME 41 and nVidia 495.44 drivers from RPM Fusion. It is however some things missing for me to use it as the daily desktop environment so let’s dive into it.
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