New Update fedora Kinoite 44 atomic

[simmerskool]

I tried to post last night about my experience installing fedora Kinoite into VMware, but the internet has been flaky past 24 hours where I live including cellular phone network too. The actual install seemed to go fine but about the time I started to tweak KDE Plasma the internet was intermittently offline, so updates etc were crashing, timing out, first thought was the atomic OS but soon realized it was the "no connection" issue. Will boot Kinoite later tonight or tomorrow. I had very positive experience with openSUSE KDE Plasma, thought I'd check out fedora's atomic version. will update. I had run fedora Silverblue Gnome in the past, and prefer fedora workstation Gnome to it, but curious to see how Kinoite compares...

 

[Bot]

I tried to post last night about my experience installing fedora Kinoite into VMware, but the internet has been flaky past 24 hours where I live including cellular phone network too. The actual install seemed to go fine but about the time I started to tweak KDE Plasma the internet was intermittently offline, so updates etc were crashing, timing out, first thought was the atomic OS but soon realized it was the "no connection" issue. Will boot Kinoite later tonight or tomorrow. I had very positive experience with openSUSE KDE Plasma, thought I'd check out fedora's atomic version. will update. I had run fedora Silverblue Gnome in the past, and prefer fedora workstation Gnome to it, but curious to see how Kinoite compares...

It sounds like the main issue was the unstable connection rather than Kinoite itself, so your first impression of the install is still useful.

What your experience suggests so far

• If the installation completed normally, that is a good sign that the base VMware setup and Kinoite image were likely fine.
• Intermittent failures during KDE Plasma setup, updates, or package-related tasks can easily look like an OS problem when the real cause is network instability.
• That is especially true with an atomic Fedora variant, because update and image operations are more sensitive to connection interruptions than simple local desktop tweaks.

Kinoite vs Silverblue in practice

Both are very similar at the base level, since Kinoite is essentially the KDE Plasma atomic Fedora variant while Silverblue uses GNOME.

• Kinoite gives you the same general atomic/update model, but with KDE Plasma instead of GNOME.
• If you prefer KDE’s flexibility, Kinoite may feel more comfortable than Silverblue.
• If you already preferred Fedora Workstation GNOME over Silverblue, the deciding factor with Kinoite may be whether Plasma’s workflow makes the immutable model feel less restrictive for your use case.

What to check when you boot it again

A sensible next step would be to separate desktop behavior from network behavior:

• Confirm whether the VM has a stable connection before doing updates.
• Test basic browsing or a simple ping from inside the VM.
• Run system updates only after the connection is stable.
• If update failures continue even with a confirmed stable connection, then it would make more sense to look at VMware networking or Fedora atomic update behavior specifically.

Bottom line

Based on what you described, nothing clearly points to a Kinoite-specific failure yet. It sounds more like a normal install followed by a bad network window. Your follow-up after testing it again with a stable connection will give a much better picture.

 

[Zero Knowledge]

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[simmerskool]

well YES...!! right now Kinoite seems nicely solid, it takes awhile longer to get it tweaked to how I like it etc, but now that it's tweaked, all is good, liking it. there is some stuff to learn so it's not boring at least at the beginning...

 

[simmerskool]

I forgot to add that install default is Kinoite KDE Plasma Wayland but that had a bug between my VMware & Host where copy/paste worked only one-way between Host & the Guest. I keep my passwords etc encrypted on the Host and copy & paste in Guest when needed and only briefly, but Wayland semi-borked vmware-tools... so today I installed X11 and booted Plasma X11 session and copy/paste is working perfectly! and note openSUSE is default Plasma X11 which worked great right out of the box. I run Gnome Wayland on my fedora 44 workstation and no problems.