Fedora Workstation 38 is expected to be another fantastic release. I have been playing with the current development state of Fedora 38 on several test machines for the past few days. Although Fedora 38 Beta was only released this week, it already looks polished and stable enough. In simple terms, Fedora Workstation 38 promises to be another fantastic release, continuing the Fedora project’s modern trend of releasing a modern Linux distribution ready for production and with much fewer flaws compared to previous releases.
My experience using Fedora Workstation 38 (~Beta) so far has been great. I have not encountered any serious or even annoying issues. My only personal disappointment is that I still do not like the GNOME Text Editor as much as the old gedit, which is my biggest criticism on the GNOME 44 side. The only real problems I encountered with Fedora Workstation 38 were with building some programs, which is not surprising, given that Fedora 38 is transitioning to the new GCC 13 compiler, and some compiler warnings/errors occur, but this is not a Fedora problem in itself. GCC 13 did not cause as many problems as the transition from GCC 11 to GCC 12, at least with the code base I worked with.
Fedora Workstation 38 with Linux 6.2 + Mesa 23.0 provides an excellent open-source graphics experience, including AMD Radeon RX 7900 and Intel Arc Graphics. Plus, all other advanced components deliver as usual.
On my main workstation, I remain a satisfied user of Fedora Workstation, and although Fedora update reliability has improved over the years, I still have nightmares from the past. I am looking forward to upgrading to Fedora Workstation 38 on my main system.
