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I’m looking for a Fedora 38 workstation iso. I cannot seem to find one. Fedora 40 doesn’t seem to want to play nice with my surface pro 7. Any help would be appreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Does it lock up when booting? Fedora's kernel has issues booting on Surface devices since Fedora 39.

You either need to switch kernels (e.g. linux-surface kernel) on a different machine or switch distro.

Running an outdated Fedora version is not the solution.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Fedora 38 reached end of support in May. So even if you could find an ISO of it, it is not supported at all anymore.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

IIRC, any of the uBlue images offer to ship these by default. Hence, they might as well pick one of those instead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Just fyi, that is not Fedora workstation, thats a Fedora atomic spin, which is an immutable os. Installing packages and updating works a bit different than a normal distro.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

While I don't recommend using unmaintained version of an OS, you can find Fedora torrent files here. Might as well explore other distro if Fedora doesn't work for your laptop. (I am biased with Solus).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I got Fedora workstation working !

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

probably not a good idea, you'd have to upgrade quite soon. take a look at centos or rocky Linux instead, they're both down stream from fedora

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

i'll look into it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Rocky, cent & bluefin all have INSTALLERS and bout live iso’s. So that’s a no from me dawg. It’s a shared computer and i like to test things out before i install them. It’s a Bummer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

There is a special .iso archive for all past releases.