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Installation

Username Profile Initial Setup Comments
Bohdan
HP t520, AMD GX-212JC [1] [1] I was unable to find a way how to set additional parameters (UID, groups, ...) for the new user. Thus the created user has a generis UID and can not access data created on previous system / other devices.
Christopher Boni
Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 4 (i7-1255U)
clnetbox
CLEVO PB70 series | Fedora Linux 43 | NVIDIA RTX 2070
daddy_bear1704
Desktop: GNOME v: 49.0 Distro: Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition Prerelease). Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion 17 Notebook. CPU: Info: quad core model: AMD A10-5745M APU with Radeon HD Graphics [1] [1] installer was failing to read from usb, I had to switch to nearest repo over internet install. installer could not resize linux partition (only ntfs one), in the end my /dev/sda10 Linux filesystem (457.3 GB) was partly wiped out and now only contains /home and /root
Derek Enz
AMD 5600G F42 KDE Boxes VM
Felipe Borges
Fedora-Workstation-Live-43-20251002.n.0.x86_64.iso Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 7
Jiri Eischmann
Fedora 43 Workstation on Lenovo ThinkPad P16
lruzicka
Libvirt KVM based VM
Luya Tshimbalanga
Fedora Linux 43 Design Suite Lab, Dell Inspiron 7745 convertible
test_sdkf
Fedora-Workstation-Live-43-20251005.n.1.x86_64.iso in VM (Boxes) UEFI [1] [1] [] dracut-cmdline[]: //lib/dracut/hooks/cmdline/29-parse-livemet.sh: line 6: get_url_handler: command not found

Desktop

Username Profile Login Screen Lock Screen User Switching Audio Comments
Christopher Boni
Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 4 (i7-1255U)
clnetbox
CLEVO PB70 series | Fedora Linux 43 | NVIDIA RTX 2070
daddy_bear1704
Desktop: GNOME v: 49.0 Distro: Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition Prerelease). Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion 17 Notebook. CPU: Info: quad core model: AMD A10-5745M APU with Radeon HD Graphics [1] [2] [3] [4] [1] login screen appears after initial boot. no graphical issues
[2] super + L locks screen. notification appears on lock screen when enable. Wayland session, not X11. Wayland doesn’t support xset or DPMS so I could not force system to wait 5 seconds between lock screen and blank screen when manually locking via super + L
[3] works as expected
[4] sounds system and playing youtube videos work. also connecting to bluetooth speaker
Derek Enz
AMD 5600G F42 KDE Boxes VM
Felipe Borges
Fedora-Workstation-Live-43-20251002.n.0.x86_64.iso Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 7
lruzicka
Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v3/Xeon E5 v3/Core i7 DMI2 (rev 02) [1] [2] [3] [4] [1] Works as expected, correct password logs me in, incorrect does not.
[2] Works as expected, passwords work, playing audio can be controlled from the screen.
[3] Works as expected.
[4] Sound works, also sound routing between applications and external midi devices.
Luya Tshimbalanga
Fedora Linux 43 Design Suite Lab running on Desktop Asus Prime X570-Pro, Ryzen 9 5950x Radeon RX 9070XT and 128 GB DDR4-RAM

GNOME Shell

Username Profile Activities Dash Overview Search Workspaces Extensions Comments
Bohdan
HP t520, AMD GX-212JC
Christopher Boni
Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 4 (i7-1255U)
clnetbox
CLEVO PB70 series | Fedora Linux 43 | NVIDIA RTX 2070
daddy_bear1704
Desktop: GNOME v: 49.0 Distro: Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition Prerelease). Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion 17 Notebook. CPU: Info: quad core model: AMD A10-5745M APU with Radeon HD Graphics [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [1] all test cases ok. always fun to navigate that way betweens apps and windows
[2] all test cases ok. discover few tips for dash by running cases
[3] focus search to file application, finding apps, navigating through results. all good
[4] using dynamic workspace setting and fixed 3. multi-screen not tested
[5] work well once I understood difference between sudo dnf and sudo dnf5
Derek Enz
AMD 5600G F42 KDE Boxes VM
Felipe Borges
Fedora-Workstation-Live-43-20251002.n.0.x86_64.iso Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 7 [1] [1] Tested also with the multi monitor scenarios.
Jiri Eischmann
Fedora 43 Workstation on Dell XPS 13
lruzicka
Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v3/Xeon E5 v3/Core i7 DMI2 (rev 02) [1] [2] [1] Works as expected.
[2] All suggested tests passed.
Luya Tshimbalanga
Fedora Linux 43 Design Suite Lab running on Asus Prime X570-Pro, Ryzen 9 5950x and Radeon RX 9070XT
Luya Tshimbalanga
Fedora Linux 43 Design Suite Lab running on Desktop Asus Prime X570-Pro, Ryzen 9 5950x Radeon RX 9070XT and 128 GB DDR4-RAM

System Settings

Username Profile System Settings Accessibility Comments
Bohdan
HP t520, AMD GX-212JC [1] [2] [1] "Privacy & Security" - Automatic Screen Lock Delay seems not working (beeing ignored) when set to 1 minute
[2] Orca screen reader and speech-dispatcher crashed / restarted several times during my testing.
Christopher Boni
Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 4 (i7-1255U)
clnetbox
CLEVO PB70 series | Fedora Linux 43 | NVIDIA RTX 2070
daddy_bear1704
Desktop: GNOME v: 49.0 Distro: Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition Prerelease). Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion 17 Notebook. CPU: Info: quad core model: AMD A10-5745M APU with Radeon HD Graphics [1] [2] [1] did not test printers or multiple screens. Got setting to freeze by clicking too many times on a wallpaper, but that's expected
[2] luckily don't need them, but glad they exist and are functional
Derek Enz
AMD 5600G F42 KDE Boxes VM
Felipe Borges
Fedora-Workstation-Live-43-20251002.n.0.x86_64.iso Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 7
Jiri Eischmann
Fedora 43 Workstation on Dell XPS 13
lruzicka
Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v3/Xeon E5 v3/Core i7 DMI2 (rev 02) [1] [1] I have not tested every single item, but it seems to generally work.
Luya Tshimbalanga
Fedora Linux 43 Design Suite Lab, Dell Inspiron 7745 convertible [1] [1] Also tested with Wacom Bamboo Ink Plus

Online Accounts

Username Profile Google IMAP/SMTP Kerberos Nextcloud Comments
Christopher Boni
Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 4 (i7-1255U)
clnetbox
CLEVO PB70 series | Fedora Linux 43 | NVIDIA RTX 2070
Derek Enz
AMD 5600G F42 KDE Boxes VM
Felipe Borges
Fedora-Workstation-Live-43-20251002.n.0.x86_64.iso Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 7
Luya Tshimbalanga
Fedora Linux 43 Design Suite Lab, Dell Inspiron 7745 convertible

Major apps

Username Profile Files Software Terminal Comments
clnetbox
CLEVO PB70 series | Fedora Linux 43 | NVIDIA RTX 2070
daddy_bear1704
Desktop: GNOME v: 49.0 Distro: Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition Prerelease). Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion 17 Notebook. CPU: Info: quad core model: AMD A10-5745M APU with Radeon HD Graphics [1] [2] [3] [1] opens correctly. multi tabs. mounted disks
[2] download system update, 3rd party codecs, connects to repositories
[3] works as expected. copy / paste command. updating config file. installing new services. multi tabs
Derek Enz
AMD 5600G F42 KDE Boxes VM
Felipe Borges
Fedora-Workstation-Live-43-20251002.n.0.x86_64.iso Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 7
lruzicka
Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v3/Xeon E5 v3/Core i7 DMI2 (rev 02) [1] [2] [3] [1] File operations work, USB drives connect fine
[2] Installs and deletes applications, updates packages.
[3] No problems seen with Terminal. All tried activities worked.
Luya Tshimbalanga
Fedora Linux 43 Design Suite Lab, Dell Inspiron 7745 convertible

New apps

Username Profile Showtime (video player) Decibels (audio player) Papers (document viewer) Comments
clnetbox
CLEVO PB70 series | Fedora Linux 43 | NVIDIA RTX 2070
Derek Enz
AMD 5600G F42 KDE Boxes VM
Felipe Borges
Fedora-Workstation-Live-43-20251002.n.0.x86_64.iso Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 7
Kamil Páral
F43 on a laptop [1] [2] [3] [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/showtime/-/issues/232
[2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/decibels/-/issues/144
[3] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/papers/-/issues/516
lruzicka
Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v3/Xeon E5 v3/Core i7 DMI2 (rev 02) [1] [2] [3] [1] Works as expected.
[2] No issues with the application found. Does not do much, but what it does, it does well.
[3] Papers work as expected
Luya Tshimbalanga
Fedora Linux 43 Design Suite Lab, Dell Inspiron 7745 convertible

Exploratory Testing

Username Profile Exploratory Testing (of any part of GNOME) Comments
clnetbox
CLEVO PB70 series | Fedora Linux 43 | NVIDIA RTX 2070 [1] [1] kernel-6.17.1-300.fc43.x86_64 | nvidia-580.95.05
Felipe Borges
Fedora-Workstation-Live-43-20251002.n.0.x86_64.iso Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 7 [1] [1] Overall I couldn't find any visible regression on my day-to-day use of the version for the past couple of days.
Kamil Páral
F43 on a laptop [1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[1] A Live flash drive restored in GNOME Disks doesn't work in Windows: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-disk-utility/-/issues/468
[2] Ptyxis+Nautilus integration issues with sftp/smb network directories: https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis/-/issues/479
[3] Loupe is extremely slow on network drives: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/loupe/-/issues/534
[4] gsd-datetime crashes on each login: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/-/issues/901
Luya Tshimbalanga
Fedora Linux 43 Design Suite Lab, Dell Inspiron 7745 convertible [1] [1] Screen autorotate failed on Wayland session without using extension on convertible laptops and tablets
Bugs: #1
test_sdkf
Fedora-Workstation-Live-43-20251008.n.0.x86_64.iso in Boxes VM [1] [1] Maps becomes unresponsive when clicking random picture icon on a map too fast