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Differences with Fedora
This page documents Ultramarine Linux’s significant changes compared with a typical Fedora workstation setup.
Changes listed below are non-exhaustive and cumulative, meaning each section contains changes from all the sections below it.
Emoji meanings
📦 This is packaged in
Terra
🛳️ This ships existing Fedora packages
🔥 This is a significant change/improvement
Ultramarine 43
umcli
tweak: cachyos-kernel
umcli
tweak: sudo-pwfeedback
More fixes to Taidan, including language selection, keyboard variant, etc.
🔥 Readymade preview images
Ultramarine 42
🔥 Many Taidan fixes and new pages/features
📦 Use netto for network connection in Taidan
Properly enable terra-mesa repo for all images
umcli
tweaks feature included ootb
📦 Surface images switch to upstream surface-dtx-daemon package
WSL gains hardware acceleration, proper Ultramarine shell configs, and some packages ported over from Ultramarine proper.
Update preset systemd services
A towel is included with every install
Reduce initramfs size
Only keep 2 kernel versions at a time
Ultramarine 41
🔥 Switched to Taidan, our out-of-box experience
🔥 All raw images (including Pi) switched to Btrfs
🔥 Move many core desktop apps to Flatpak
🔥 WSL support
🔥 Surface Images
🛳️
fastfetch
🛳️
zstd
umcli
📦 NVIDIA drivers shipped in
Terra
📦 Codecs shipped in
Terra
Ultramarine 40
Change default package manager to
dnf5
dnf5-default-package-manager
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 Updated October 2025)
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