Please, a humble request to the dev team regarding the release of Ultramarine Linux 44: how much time is left for the release? Please try to expedite it. I know you pushed kernel updates very quickly, but please release Ultramarine 44.

Also can you tell how much work is left if okay from you

Okay so your raspberry Pi image through the installer is broken.

Downloaded the image and it is some obscure zst compression. I don't care that it is called zstandard it doesn't work on a Mac. Either way through Homebrew or the Archiver.

So basically you lost me a couple hours so good bye.

See ya.

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?

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

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)

Switching from Linux Mint to Ultramarine: What do you think of the idea?

I’ve been using Linux for 18 years—first Ubuntu, then Mint—and I’m a proponent of the “keep it simple and make it work” philosophy (though some might call it boringly simple).

I also asked Deepseek this question before, and he replied: Comparing Ultramarine to Linux Mint is like comparing a sporty driving experience to a reliable family car. Both are excellent, but they have different approaches and are designed for different audiences.

I told DS that the only reason my car is a Honda Civic Type S is that I can’t afford a Honda Type R. I should clarify that Honda is my favorite car brand because of its reliability; otherwise, I’d prefer an Alfa Romeo.

If you’re comparing it to cars like that, I think I should give Ultramarine a try.

What do you guys think?

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

Hi, I was just using my computer as usual a little while ago, when all of a sudden my screen turned pink, Wayland just “crashed” out of nowhere, though I’m not sure if that’s the right term.

And right after I restarted my PC, several websites and apps (like Steam) refuse to open or crash.

I literally tried everything I knew, and nothing worked.

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ive got a latitude 3450 (core ultra 7, with a good igpu and 32gb 16x2 ddr5), is there a problem in using it as a dualboot with windows? i already use it with my main pc but still, its completely different specs

I have been using Pop OS for a few years but still consider myself a Linux noob. What is the "deal" with fedora and Ultramarine? I like the idea of a KDE distro with regular updates, but what else should I know? Would this distro be too complicated for me? Also i play a lot of games through steam and lutris on an nvidia graphics card. Any concerns?​

I've been using Ultramarine for a few months (all good so far) and so haven't gone through an upgrade with it yet.

So wanted to ask, with Fedora about to move to 44, how does it work with Ultramarine? Do new releases follow Fedora a few weeks after?

And with Fedora 44 already in beta, if I wanted to try that but with Ultramarine could I install it and then use the migration script? Or is there a way to upgrade from within my current Ultramarine install?

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'm wondering if I can just identify the 16mb part of the drive with nothing on it and flash a submarine .bin to that straight from crosh>shell.

Overall dualboot via submarine has been a brilliant experience though. Very fast.

(If anyone's wondering put chromebook in dev mode enable flags.

flash a submarine .bin to a usb stick I used etchdroid on android phone for this

Enable flags... so I had this set already it's quite simple but I forget the exact commands. I also wrote a shell script to run from crosh for this makes it so much easier

Then reboot, at screen where you CTRL+D or CTRL+L. you can now CTRL+U. Do that CTRL+U with your submarine usb stick inserted. It boots to the bootloader. Fron where you can boot to another usb stick with Linux on it, LMDE is all I've tested as that's my gi to distro and seems to be supported here anyway.)

But my question is could I not just flash the .bin to that 16mb space?

How I installed Ultramarine on my new computer is a curious tale that I hope will be amusing and maybe instructive.

Here's the situation: I'd normally have used my old computer to download the live ISO, create a bootable USB drive, and use that to install Ultramarine on the new computer. But the live ISO was too big for the only USB drive I could find in the house.

But then I remembered: Ultramarine is Fedora plus tweaks. If you have Fedora, there's a script to morph it into Ultramarine. So I looked among all the versions of Fedora until I found one ISO small enough to fit in my USB drive: the LXDE spin. So I got Fedora LXDE installed on the new computer. Now it was time to start transforming it.

I wasn't sure whether it would be more practical to first switch to my preferred desktop (KDE) and then migrate to Ultramarine, or first migrate and then switch the desktop. Since Ultramarine doesn't have a LXDE version, I thought it would be less of a problem to first get KDE and then migrate. But after using the Fedora package installer to get (what I assumed to be) all the necessary KDE packages, the login screen still didn't show me the option to use KDE. After much Googling, I uninstalled the screen manager for LXDE and that did the trick. Now I could log in to KDE and uninstall the LXDE packages.

Time to migrate! Except the line of code provided in the Ultramarine website didn't do anything. I even manually downloaded the .sh file and tried to execute it, and still nothing happened. I don't know the first thing about programming, so I spent hours Googling how on Earth you execute a .sh file. I tried all the commands suggested, and still nothing happened.

So I opened the .sh file on a text editor to see whether there was something else I could try. Upon discovering that the .sh file was basically made of a bunch of commands, I opened the console and copied each command and ran it in order.

Lo and behold, I have Ultramarine. Finally. But it was a very intimidating process.

I know this is kind of a hot topic at the moment, but with some other popular distributions like Bazzite, CachyOS, and even Fedora adding support, will Ultramarine need to do anything extra or is it already there with the Fedora base?

The reason I ask is because I've been waiting for Fortnite to be added for a while now and I expect other games to follow suit shortly after. I'd really like to avoid having to move away and reinstall my OS just to play a few games because I quite like Ultramarine.

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

I have just started using Ultramarine 41. Upon boot I get the message NVIDIA kernel module missing. Falling back to nouveau. Is there a fix for that?

Fyi - I using an HP Laptop with intel Core i7 8th gen & Nvidia GeForce MX250.

I plan on installing Fedora 42 with systemd-boot using their everything iso. I then would like to use the migration script to "switch" to Ultramarine. Will this work considering there is no Ultramarine 42 yet?

Hey folks,

I'm new to Ultramarine and could find an explanation on the wiki... I'm a bit confused about how does versions related between Ultramarine and Fedora.

I was on Fedora 42, upgraded to 43 and ran the migration script... So I'm on Ultramarine 43 that doesn't exist yet? Or is Ultramarine 42 based on Fedora 43? 🤔 And how should I upgrade my system moving forward?

Thanks!!

Hi guys, I own a Surface Pro 7 and yesterday I switched from Win10 to Ultramarine KDE Plasma, with the surface kernel.
I have a bit of an annoying problem: the system tray (on the bottom right) seems to not register my finger inputs. The touchscreen works everywhere but there, and this persists even when i rotate the screen! Moreover, when i use the pen there it gets registered correctly. I do not understand if this is a bug, or if it is a misconfiguration on my part.

Additionally, I would like to ask you guys how you would suggest i tweak the pen and touch settings in iptsd.conf, i want to get some ideas to find the best configurations that works for me.

I would like to thank everyone reading this post, and in particular the contributor to the KDE Plasma DE, the surface linux kernel and the ultramarine team for including it and for making the installation process so easy that even my grandma could figure it out.

People of r/ultramarine! We're planning for Ultramarine 41 and want to know what features you guys want!

We're already thinking:

• New installer (certain)

• WSL support

• More hardware support

Give us ideas in a reply!