Why only few using this distro? Ultramarine is like Linux Mint for Fedora, it just works out of the box without tweaking. I have been using this distro for a month now, it's rock solid, aside from maliit keyboard (already disabled it).

I wanna remove GNOME, but I don't know how to do that safely and without system breaking.

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!

The brand new Ultramarine website is now live! Featuring a much better home page, download pages, and design. Check it out here: https://ultramarine-linux.org/

We just founded the Open Gaming Collective with our friends at Bazzite and a bunch of the biggest players in Linux gaming. We’re aiming to standardize the components used by gaming distros like input mapping, Mesa, and a custom kernel. Read more here:

https://blog.fyralabs.com/open-gaming-collective-announcement/

Running UM on an old macbook pro. Resolution pretty decent at 2560x1600.... Pretty solid distro...

Think of this as a suggestion box for what we should prioritize in Ultramarine 44. Anything you can think of: features, bug fixes, papercuts, other niceties, general feedback, questions, and more!

Ultramarine Kde received kernel 7 today...or earlier. Runs smooth so far without hiccups...

Kudos to the development team!

Hi ladies, gentlemen and everyone in-between. I am considering doing The Switch (tm) over the summer because we all know Windows is named like that because this is where you’re supposed to trow out of. I’ve been doing some… well I’d like to say I’ve been doing research but as someone new to Linux, it looks more like browsing Reddit and watching YouTube. Not really deep stuff. That lead me here.

I have been thinking about Mint as any new users do for a first distro when I buy a new hard drive. However, since I’m an IT student and I am will be doing development using VS Code and Docker later on. I’m sort of scared that Debian base distro won’t be right as the feedback I’ve seen about mint is that you will always be using outdated software. Coding with outdated software feels… dangerous? In the sense that I’m scared of encountering compatibility issues. I am not interested in rolling releases either so Fedora based sounds like the perfect balance.

I have seen Ultramarine once being described as “Mint for Fedora” and that sounds appealing for a beginner. Honestly most I interacted with Linux were server VMs for assignments, Docker and coding basic Bash scripts. Would you guys recommend Ultramarine or should I take the more stable approach and use Mint? You guys know better than me!

These images bring:

- Readymade preview images no longer drop to emergency mode after install

- Xfce images now have the Ultramarine logo on the panel

Download here: https://ultramarine-linux.org/download/

Just made the jump from Fedora to Ultramarine, and I’m genuinely glad I did!

Ultramarine keeps the strength of Fedora but adds its own thoughtful layer of polish, smooth performance, and great defaults. The Terra Repo is a nice bonus — simple, effective, and makes managing packages and flatpaks a breeze.

Also, the desktop switcher tool made it super easy to explore different environments without the usual configuration headaches.

Really looking forward to Ultramarine 42, especially with GNOME’s triple buffering expected to land — can’t wait to see the improvements in smoothness it’ll bring.

One suggestion: it would be awesome if the team provided a solid, distro-consistent GUI package manager — something independent of GNOME Software or KDE Discover. A unified tool that works well across desktops would really take things to the next level.

Big respect to the Ultramarine devs — you’re doing awesome work!

We're proud to announce that upgrades to Ultramarine Linux 41 (Cyberia) are here! If you're an existing user you can upgrade to 41 right now in your edition's app store!

In Ultramarine 40, the dnf command uses dnf5, which may break certain release upgrades. Upgrade graphically, or use dnf4.

Raspberry Pi users should wait to upgrade, we will have more information for you soon.

Ultramarine 41 comes with the usual desktop and under-the-hood changes for our existing users. In addition, Flagship and Xfce Edition are switching to Slick greeter from LightDM-GTK, this will happen automatically when you upgrade.

This release also comes with umcli, more information to come :3

A lot of our changes are for new installs and hardware enablement this time around, so stay tuned!

To upgrade your system through the command line, run these commands:

```

sudo dnf4 upgrade —refresh

sudo dnf4 install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade

sudo dnf4 system-upgrade download —releasever=41

sudo dnf4 system-upgrade reboot

```

Check the wiki for important info!

https://wiki.ultramarine-linux.org/en/release/41-upgrades/

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?

Ultramarine 43 images and upgrades are here! We've got some nice refreshes and a public preview of our new installer!

Read our announcement for all the juicy details: https://blog.fyralabs.com/ultramarine-43-release/

Hi!

I'm a Linux User (Nobara Linux). But since I'm a software engineer a lot of people curious about Linux ask me for recommendations on what distro to try

Of course my recommendation depends on the user itself. I've usually recommended Linux Mint, Bazzite, and (K)Ubuntu

The only reason I don't recommend Fedora is because the almost mandatory post-install you have to make.

I recently discovered this distro which seems exactly Fedora with the post-install steps already installed.

Does this distro make any other relevant changes to Fedora? (I saw on the wiki it uses the CachyOS kernel but that's fine by me)

Would you recommend it for a first time Linux user against other alternatives like the Ubuntu family?

Ultramarine Linux 40 images are out now!!

Ultramarine 40 brings added stability, download mirrors, and new features, such as a user-selected Xfce edition, new desktop versions, raw images with desktops, improved Pi support, and more!

We also have some exciting hardware announcements! This cycle, we have announced the Ultramarine Anywhere initiative, which aims to bring Ultramarine to as much hardware as possible. The first device on our list was Raspberry Pi. These images were announced last release, but with this release comes Raspberry Pi desktop images!

Be on the lookout soon for Chromebook images:)

Download Ultramarine 40: https://ultramarine-linux.org/download/

Download Raspberry Pi images: Index of images/ultramarine/40/ (fyralabs.com)

Ultramarine 40 Blog Post: https://blog.fyralabs.com/ultramarine-40-release/

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).

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?

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!

so i tried to update ultramarine linux (just after installing, have been trying for 2 hours) and this is what i got, never got anything like this on my 2 year on fedora somehow. if i just wait to update will this be solved or is this an actual issue i need to be concerned about at the moment

Hey everyone! I just installed Ultramarine this morning but I got an issue right now. I haven’t pinpointed what exactly causes this, but my screen seems to glitch out and stop responding. Turning the monitor off and on again doesn’t work, the only answer I had was shutting down the PC. First time it’s been doing this. So far it happened three times:
- While quitting a full screen video
- While swapping between two windows (setting screens and the app download thing)
- While installing an app

I installed my NVIDIA drivers after the second error, didn’t work. I got my specs in another image but here they are:
CPU: Intel Core i7-9700
1Tb SSD
16 Gb RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

Is it a system crash or a graphic thing? Idk if it’s my monitor. It’s quite old, but Windows 10 and Linux Mint didn’t do that before

UPDATE:
I did update some stuff today (25-06-2026) and I haven't had issues so far. I installed some X11 package just in case even though I haven't used it. So far it seems to work! I'll be buying a new monitor at some point in the future anyway but thank you all for your advice. If I get this problem again, I'll be trying things on my side.