Fedora Asahi Remix 40 served on Apple Silicon

Lagging the mainstream edition by a couple of weeks, the Asahi-flavored version of Fedora 40 is here – redolent with KDE Plasma 6.

Fedora Asahi Remix 40 is the variant of Fedora for Apple Mac hardware with Cupertino's in-house silicon. For now, this still means M1 and M2 Macs only. Asahi project lead Hector Martin said on Mastodon that support for M3-powered models would be delayed. (The M4 chip is much too new – it only appeared this week and so far not in any Macs.)

Although this is the Asahi Linux project's Fedora remix and the flagship distro, it's not quite as simple as "Fedora 40, but on Arm boxes with fruit logos." Asahi doesn't offer all of the umpteen variants and spins of Fedora – we counted 19 variants when we covered the release.

For one thing, Asahi focuses strongly on Wayland, and that means you have ...