# Fedora Podcast interview about Gnome 40 1. Intro and set up interview 2. Who is Allan Day, how did you get involved in Fedora, and what do you do in Fedora and the FOSS community now? 3. Fedora Workstation uses Gnome as the DE. Why is Gnome a good choice for Fedora? 4. What are the biggest differences between Gnome 40 and the previous version? Could you explain them? 5. Where did you get the ideas for these changes? 6. What are the benefiets of switching to GTK 4? 7. Gnome is changing its version scheme. Could you explain how, and why? 9. Did you have to make any changes to the Fedora base, to make it work with Gnome 40, or was it easy to swap in? ~~10. If Gnome 40 hadn't been a Fedora 34 change, would 34 still have picked it up as an update?~~ 11. Why did we move to Gnome 40 in Fedora 34, while other distros have stayed back on their releases? Allan, feel free to make changes