Fedora 44 was released a couple of weeks ago.
I’ve been running it since then and I’m very happy. The upgrade went smoothly, there were no breakages, and no manual changes or fixes I still had to make afterwards. I am enjoying how mature this distribution and GNOME have become.
Good to hear the upgrade was clean. Fedora has really hit its stride the last few releases, the in-place upgrades used to be a coin flip but now from what I’ve been hearing, they just work.
GNOME on Fedora is probably THE best GNOME experience out there, since you’re getting it close to upstream without a pile of distro patches layered on top.
GDM dropping X11 and now with VRR plus fractional scaling graduating on Wayland, it’s been a long time coming. 
Anything specific you’ve noticed yet or is it more of a quiet polish release for you?
I haven’t noticed anything in particular—feels like a rather quiet release to me (in a good sense!).
I have just completed the Fedora 44 upgrade on all of my 3 systems, virtual, work laptop and home system, and all went smooth. My virtual system is the default Gnome and the other two are the Sway spin.
The longest part of the process was the backup. The upgrade took, half hour at 400 mb/s download from the ISP. I agree with @andreas, nothing overly exciting noticed.
In fact this is now about my 3rd upgrade, and nothing has bit me as yet.
As it should be! Glad to hear another user’s smooth Fedora upgrade experience.
The Workstation Installation ISO came with an error when booting. Looks bad being an Edition, however the argument was that error is cosmetic.
An other thing which is annoying is not a Fedora Issue, it is the fact that Gnome disabled
gtk-enable-primary-paste false . This was disabling the middle click and some other copy paste behavior.
It is in the Gnome tweaks to activate or it can be manually set on true with:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-enable-primary-paste true
An other thing I observed was that the “dash to dock” extension not respected the “switch off” of "Show overview on startup respects anymore. However just on one external disk I updated.
I made 3 smooth updates from F43 to F44. I had errors, just needed to deactivate/activate the rpm-fusion repository for the upgrade process with dnf.
I use Fedora since F29 and I am happy with it.
Hi, @ilikelinux 
Welcome to the community!
Thanks for sharing. And welcome to the forums. Feel free to check out the Fedora group as well.
Welcome to our community. I was wondering if that is a Fedora issue or a Gnome issue, since Gnome was upgraded to 50. One reason I ran from Gnome tweaks and extensions, is that they can easily break with an upgrade.
Yes, I believe GNOME disabled the middle-click-to-paste behaviour to make it more in line with other desktop environments (the most used ones, Windows and macOS, do not have such a behaviour). I think it makes sense, honestly.
I think it’s also a matter of people wanting to make GNOME behave in a certain way while there are other desktop environments more suited to their needs.
GNOME has a very specific philosophy, and it really resonates with me, but I can imagine it’s not everyone’s cup of tea (especially if you prefer a Windows-esque UX). However, GNOME in its current form requires a lot of extensions to achieve such a workflow, which is indeed prone to breaking. That’s why I think it’d be better to redirect those users to, e.g., KDE.
Of course, pushing this users which keep it running while reporting/debugging away … tssss.
It is like putting a Joystick into all the new cars, with the argument it fits better to the gamer generation today. Those which are used to the steering wheel can look how they get it back. Maybe continuing using Old timers 
I don’t think it’s necessarily for a “new” generation. I believe leading up to GNOME 3, quite a lot of research and UX iterations were done to achieve at the workflow we see today. It’s not coming from a “let’s do something different for the sake of it”. As I remember it, there was a genuine effort to move to a more natural and more accessible way of interacting with one’s computer.
It is the best distro in 2026 in my opinion