I got a macbook that I've been running asahi fedora on for a couple months now. I saw that the latest edition of Ultramarine was available for asahi so I figured I might as well try it out. The experience has been smooth so far.

I was curious about the different desktop environments supported so I installed hop to try them out. However I have only been able to download the gnome desktop. When I try to download the budgie or xfce environments I get the following error:

Fail to arrange offline DE install (rc=1)

I also tried installing the desktop environments through the terminal with dnf but this also failed. Should I take this to mean that the KDE and gnome editions are the only ones compatible with asahi currently?

Just switched off CachyOS due to secure boot problems and not liking Arch in general. Is it possible to dual-boot Ultramarine and Windows 11? I couldn't find any information about that in the docs, except another Reddit post about deleting Windows EFI partition. On top of that, I'd like secure boot support because of games like Valorant. Also not sure if NVIDIA drivers will work with secure boot, since that was a problem in CachyOS. I only have 1 SSD.

In the system tweaks section, it gives the options to use RPMs instead of Flatpaks. Does this mean Ultramarine only lets you use one of the other? I would prefer to have both as an installation method.

Also, a bit unrelated, but does Ultramarine have offline updates?

I would love to see Ultramarine in the list of supported Linux distros on Framework laptops: https://frame.work/laptop13pro?tab=linux

As Fedora is officially supported, Ultramarine should be out of the box as well. Just some users might not know or understand that.
And with Ultramarine making the Fedora setup a lot easier, it could be very helpful for the out-of-the-box experience.

In a recent video from Framework about switching from Mac, Fedora was noted as the more complicated setup compared to Ubuntu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBJnX8_Fx_g
With Ultramarine, I feel like that is not true any more and should be communicated as such.

EDIT: It appears they run community polls in their forum about which distro people are using on the devices, with Ultramarine as an option: https://community.frame.work/t/2026-linux-distro-survey-framework-laptop-13-pro/82459

OK I'm trying to get the network and sharing up but I am not having any success.

I've Googled it and followed the directions but cannot access the Ultramarine system from Windows or from the other Linux systems. Any help would be appreciated

I am Currently New to Linux as Ultramarine Is My First Linux Distro as I am Currently Downloading Ultramarine, could anyone Give me Tips on Ultramarine As I am Planning on using KDE Plasma

OK, I've installed Ultramarine KDE and Samba.

I can access all of my other systems from the Ultramarine system, but I can't access the Ultramarine shares I set up from any of my other systems. Any ideas why?

i want to know how to install mangowc with dms shell on top of kde 😗

note : tried to follow the instructions of their website but I'm suck at these thing sometimes and I'm ended up messed up the system 🙃 appreciate the work of ultramarine BTW thank you for it

So I got an old surface go1 4/64gb version and I want to install ultramarine OS as my first linux distro. Last time I used elementary and kali briefly like almost decade ago and I have no idea now. I see there is 4 different version and I can't choose which to install. Since my tablet has only have 4gb ram should I install Xfce? Or GNOME for better tablet experience? Or plasma is "better" for general usage? I use this device for notes and media consumption only. Thank you in advance.

I have Ultramarine installed on my Surface Pro 7 - and it works great. Furthermore, of all the distro's I have mucked around with, Ultramarine seems more 'me'.

There is only one thing I do not like - not having a proper forum. Reddit is great for chat (which is what it is designed for), as for Discord - what a mess, I won't touch that with a barge pole.

Here is the problem - if you are new to Linux, or to a particular distro on Linux, problem solving and good support is essential. I see Reddit as a place to chat about stuff and more traditional forums as libraries of information - they are better structured and a topic does not get lost when other posts push it down the queue. Traditional forums seems more stable and have more character. Why can't we have one?

I have Ultramarine installed on my Surface Pro 7 - and it works great. Furthermore, of all the distro's I have mucked around with, Ultramarine seems more 'me'.

There is only one thing I do not like - not having a proper forum. Reddit is great for chat (which is what it is designed for), as for Discord - what a mess, I won't touch that with a barge pole.

Here is the problem - if you are new to Linux, or to a particular distro on Linux, problem solving and good support is essential. I see Reddit as a place to chat about stuff and more traditional forums as libraries of information - they are better structured and a topic does not get lost when other posts push it down the queue. Traditional forums seems more stable and have more character. Why can't we have one?

I've tried jumping onto linux a few times from Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, PopOS etc etc. And its always a headache (largely I'm guessing due to it being a Microsoft Surface. I do all this stuff, and turns out 50% doesn't work because I need a special surface kernel. I add it and still find it glitching out. Buttons not working, display I don't know.

I know in essence Ultramarine is probably largely Fedora with those differences baked in?, but everything just seems so much more smoother.

The installation worked fine, the pen actually works, I didn't get 20 generic errors every time. And the annoyance are usual things that come from not being used to being on linux.

I'm not saying its all perfect to be fair, still some working out audio settings and the like. But this is stuff that isn't specifically Ultramarine but just linux overall.

I don't know I guess I mean:

However you use your system, we have you covered with tweaks and tools to make things run more seamlessly out of the box.

From the website kinda held true to me. And its the first time I felt like I was just "configuring" the system and not "fighting random errors and putting random things into the terminal because internet/AI said it might fix it".

So yah, I don't know, just wanted to put feedback because I know the Microsoft Surface Devices are quite a unique one and so I'm shocked it works so well and I'd personally recommend Ultramarine for Surface devices (specifically the Surface Pro 8 using the Surface version).

As the title suggests, I'm wondering whether there are any real differences in how COSMIC DE behaves on these two distributions.

More specifically, I understand that the Fedora COSMIC Spin is maintained by dedicated developers. But what about Ultramarine if someone installs COSMIC DE on top of the standard edition? Is the integration also maintained and curated by the Ultramarine developers, or is it essentially left up to the user?

App menu is back is turned on by default on a new installation, but inactive due to compatibility issues.
I like Vanilla better, but having an incompatible addon turned on by default that says in uppercase on its official GNOME extension store page it is no longer maintained and superceded by another extension doesn't make a good and well-maintained impression for the distro.
Maybe we can just remove this extension entirely from Ultramarine?

I read something about Ultramarine switching to a "semi-rolling" release and keeping things more up-to-date than Fedora between releases. Would that mean KDE on Ultramarine could potentially stay ahead of regular Fedora? Could it also mean that Ultramarine could become less stable than Fedora?

TLDR: Has anyone managed to get a Surface 7 Pro working on Ultramarine?
If so, how many hoops did you need to jump through? How is hardware support (touch screen, screen rotation, pen sensitivity, keyboard - camera is not important to me)?

The bit you don't need to read:

Recent migrant from Microslop. I have successfully installed Zorin on two Thinkpads (satisfied). My ultimate intention is to get rid of Windows on all of my devices. (For the moment I need to keep one Windows laptop for graphic design and drawing - Affinity and CSP - currently experimenting with getting them to run on Linux).
Note, I am a writer/artist - this means that my techie knowledge stands at around 5%

I have a Surface that is gathering dust - so I don't mind experimenting with this machine - even if it all goes wrong.

I have had Ultramarine recommended to me, as it is 'Surface Ready' (there is even the Surface option before downloading) - how smooth has other people's experience been?

I just did a comparison video pairing Ultramarine against stock Fedora and I'm amazed.

I'm running Ultramarine 44 GNOME edition going forward on the capture PC. Just wanted to come drop a note. Great work Ultramarine team!

I know I can update and install in terminal
I’m just curious if discover has been broken for anyone else. It says updates available, even if I’ve updated everything in terminal already, and just gets stuck fetching. It started just before I updated to 44 and still has the problem.

Can someone help me put my terminal transparent i just switched to linux like an hour ago and i cant find tutorials about this distro(i choose this has my first distro for the larp)

I looked online a little regarding the draw of Ultramarine. And from what I figured it is a lot like Nobara but without the gaming software and kernel tweaks.

Looking to distrohop for fun. I'm looking for a lightweight clean distro.

Nobara has borked on me for no good multiple times. CachyOS has been really really good and I would've kept it had Jenkins and MySQL native worked on it well.

Before I switch I just wanted to check what does Ultramarine provide beyond the regular packaging of Fedora. I understand that RPM fusion is enabled by default and some proprietary codecs come pre-installed, but what exactly is "Terra" repo. Is it the experimental packages stream?

Also any other features worth noting?

Just installed Ultramarine 44 on my laptop and the battery is draining like crazy. Do you also observe this on a fresh installation ? Any idea ?

Somewhere I read that, like on Fedora, the COSMIC DE works well on Ultramarine too, therefore I want to try it.

But, how fast are COSMIC updates ported to Ultramarine?

Are any COSMIC users here willing to provide insights on how well COSMIC actually works on Ultramarine?

By the way, what an awsome name has been chosen for the distro! I cannot deny that, apart from what I've been reading about the distro, it's also the very name that makes me willing to try it.