Yesterday my new Lenovo Legion Pro 5 suddenly wouldn't turn on or accept power. Lenovo sent a technician, and he replaced the motherboard. He said the original board showed signs of overheating in one area.

After the repair, he warned me against "using Linux OS" (He meant Fedora) and told me to stick with Windows.

I had removed the preinstalled Windows 11 and set up a dual boot with Linux Mint (rarely used) and Fedora 43 KDE. The most demanding things I did on Linux were playing Empires of the Undergrowth for under 2 hours on Fedora and some low-poly Blender work.

I'm still pretty new to Linux and was just trying to learn. Could Fedora realistically have caused a motherboard failure, or was the technician just being cautious?

I am still new to Linux (and tech stuff) and I am genuinely trying to understand.

Edit: He isn't from Lenovo, he is from a company performing repairs for Lenovo (and a bunch of other companies)

trying to get a icon from app to show in my taskbar and the code they said to put in gives error

Updates are not visible

Hi, on my Dell Inspiron N5110, I installed Windows 10 but I did it after Installing Linux so now I can't seem to get in Fedora. I wanted to Dualboot Fedora and Windows but seems like I gotta regenerate Grub? Thanks for your time.

I used Fedora since RedHat6.0 on and off...and at one point I was able to go from completely off, power on, bios, post, and runlevel 6, and open a browser and be browsing in under 10 seconds...this was around 2008.

Today, (since my last build) it's failing on first boot, reboots with a fedora badge at the bottom of the screen, then takes about 5 minutes to load up .e16 as my dafault wm.

I don't remember spending more than 30 minutes setting up my system in 2008 and want to replicate that if possible.

So, I am trying to use LocalSend as means to send MP3s I have downloaded to my iPhone to listen to on the music app. I saw someone else on here mention in a now archived post that they'd had some success in doing this, but all I have managed to do is get it into Files. Anything I can do to get an MP3 from my computer (Fedora) to Music on my phone would make me happy at this point.

I bought this HP 250 G10 laptop a while ago that has Realtek RTL8852BE WiFi integrated and when I first got it it was all wonky with WiFi and it kept disconnecting randomly, so I had to get some cheap AC WiFi USB dongle just to have a WiFi I can actually use. Then with updates, this resolved and this WiFi was working smoothly with no issues and no need for USB dongle. Till recently, maybe like 3 days ago. Now it's just disappearing entirely. I'll boot up laptop, it'll connect, I browse and poof, there is just no WiFi listed at all and it disconnects. I need to reboot PC for it to appear again until it just disappears again.

How can it go from broken to fully fixed to now more broken than it was few months ago!?!?!?

It started with me wanting to try some distros I tried installing qubes and bazzite and neither of them worked showed an word with the anaconda installer, fedora slowed the same exact error. How do I fix it? Can't post a pic beacose it ain't a Saturday, I understand it's probably a sarcastic rule but I got temp banned from Reddit for too many times for too many stupid reasons

Thats a repost of my original post.

Hello, I have attempted to research the Flatpak vs RPM fusion steam and from what I can find the flatpak is more secure as it offers bwrap protection from flatpak sandboxing.

I noticed that the flatpak now allows you to discover other drives now without having to specify in flatseal and I can set them up with ease so that lead to me wondering how much is the flatpak really protecting?

The reason this is so important to me is I am running some modded games, and from what I understand about video game mods is they’re running at the same user-level permissions that you are logged in as and with a flatpak stuff like my ssh keys, login tokens ect are more protected if there’s a security event and from what I think I understand is SELinux would not stop an event since they would be running at a user level.

I know steam has a pressure vessel or something that is a sandbox as well, but thought the flatpak was an additional layer of security.

Is the flatpak really going to help when running game mods? I think it will? I am hoping someone knowledgable in this area can help explain what its protecting if anything at all compared to the native rpm steam.

I don’t have any problem playing any game, just mostly concerned about running mods since they run at a user level permissions from what i think I know.

Thank you!

Install goes fine, ao I'm 8n thr middle of its first bootwhrb thr dammned thing hangs, abd wgwb I get ut back LUKS DO N'T TAKE NY DAMMED PASSWORD

Hi everyone,

I’ve a dual boot on my laptop with no problem with a rtx 3060 gpu with Fedora 42. I upgraded it to fedora 44 and no problem at all.

I wanted after several months to take the path of dual boot on my desktop mainly for solo gaming and watching a videos.

I’ve currently a ryzen 7600 and a rtx 5070ti on my desktop.
I use the media writer for fedora 44 on my usb key then installed Fedora 44 on my second ssd.

I followed everything on this repo on GitHub (I have secure boot enabled and yes I generated and enrolled the key), activate rpm fusion and installed nvidia drivers :

https://github.com/devangshekhawat/Fedora-44-Post-Install-Guide

I waited even more than 5 min after installing the drivers.

After the reboot I got a black screen not even possible to access encryption passphrase or login screen.

I press on e during the grub screen and add nomodeset to passing through the blackscreen, uninstalling, installing again akmods and cuda, force and regenerate all with akmods and dracut and still the same problem. Nvidia-smi return the correct version of nvidia drivers, I’ve lines returned in the initramfs with nvidia keyword.

Troubleshooting for hours to in the end deleting all the partitions and maybe using it for another distro or juste give up and use it for extra storage for my games on windows.

I’ve already post a question similar to linux4noobs with the same subject. I tried again and still doesn’t work. Only message I got was to try other distro based on Fedora (like nobara or Bazzite) but I prefere to use directly the original distro with my own config and packages I want to have.

I don’t know how or where to start again with Fedora especially with my config. Does anyone have the same issue ?

Thanks in advance everyone !

So I bought external speakers for my brother, the speakers are the Tempest M50 Victory.

They work perfectly when watching videos, shows, etc. But once my brother starts a game they don't make any sound. The sound comes back and goes away randomly.

What's even weirder is that in some games the sound works perfectly, it never goes away but in other games it randomly has no sound and then has sound.

This is such a strange issue, never seen this happen before.

Please does someone know a solution? I've been searching everywhere but seems nobody has had this problem.

I don't know if this is an issue with the speakers themselves or the compatibility with Linux

I am having a terrible day and now it just got worse:( I am sure there is an easy solution out there but I could not find it so I am making a post in hopes somebody knows what to do. I had an rx 580 in the system prior, but it is artifacting, so I swapped in a GTX 1060 3gb.

I enabled rpm fusion nonfree Nvidia drivers and nonfree steam. It was using nouveau drivers so I blacklisted it using a conf in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf and adding these 2 lines

blacklist nouveau

options nouveau modeset=0

The system boots but no display and I am unsure where to go from here. Any help would be appreciated

From what I read after messing this up, it seems like the GPU is too old to use those commands, but this is still new to me so feel free to correct my mistakes. Thank you for any help:)