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 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

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.

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

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

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 !

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!

So I have been suffering with my wifi in linux for a while now. The reason I had to switch to so many distribution (ubuntu → linux mint → pop os → fedora → cachy os) is because of my Realtek RTL8723de wifi adapter. Whenever I reboot/power on my laptop 3/5 times my wifi would disappear. I would have to restart my system again for the wifi to come back. Only in fedora the probability is a little less, it’s 1/5 times. I couldn’t figure out the reason why this happened. My wifi drivers works fine in windows. Because I am tired of Microslop, I seriously decided to fix this issue.

The reason of disappearance was aspm(active state power management). So I had to disable it. For that I go to /etc/modprobe.d, create a conf file rtw88.conf. Then add this command inside it.

options rtw88_pci disable_aspm=y

this solved my problem mostly. Now when I restart/power on my laptop it works without any problem. This is not the first time I tried this fix but previously this fix did not work properly. It did reduce the probability of wifi going full john cena but not fix it. But this time it worked pretty well and fix the issue completely.

have you guys faced similar issue with your wifi drivers in linux, do share you experience.

If you want to see learn more about my particular issue and how I fixed it, you can watch this YoTube video
https://youtu.be/hH8TBrOdbWE

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.

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I recently uppated to kernel 7.1.4 on Fedora 44 KDE Plasma Edition. it had the above mentioned error (see pics).

I searched a little bit and found that I can try regenerating the initramfs with

sudo dracut --generate-all --force

And rebooted to find out now all of kernel versions are stuck at this mentioned error.

I have access to GRUB and Rescue kernel(it suggest it is in emergency mode) but I don't remember the root password(sorry).

I have the following hardware.

ASUS Vivobook X1504ZA

Intel i5-1235U

20 gigs of Ram

I also have Windows installed, maybe I can try something from it.

Any help would be appreciated. Help This is an emergency.

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What to do?

• This problem started happening after I upgraded from Fedora 43 to 44. It was perfectly stable in Fedora 43.
• I use GNOME and my display output is a TV with VRR mode (variable refresh rate).
• My pipewire + wireplumber config files are default, unmodified.
• After a few hours uptime, the audio becomes extremely delayed. Let's say someone speaks in a YouTube video or there's an audio effect in a game. The audio will be heard 2 seconds later after the event has already happened on-screen.
• My only way to fix it is "systemctl --user restart pipewire". Then it's in sync again for a few more hours.

It seems like Pipewire builds a larger and larger audio buffer the longer my uptime has been. I have no idea how to fix it except to constantly restart Pipewire when it's too delayed... Any ideas?

Thats a repost of my original post.

It’s weird for me to ask such a question but under Fedora I am unable to find the vscode path I need for godot mono configuration. Anybody could help me please? 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Fedora version 44

I’ve been using CachyOS with KDE, and it’s awesome. However, if anything breaks I don’t want to reinstall it again, I want to use Fedora with KDE mainly but Gnome looks interesting too. I only use my PC to game, browse the web, talk with friends on Discord and run virtual machines with qemu virt manager. I’ve heard that Fedora has worse boot time and input lag than Cachy, boot time isn’t a problem but input lag is something that’s worth noting in the games I play. So would it be worth switching to Fedora if I am not a developer? Should I use CachyOS kernel and tweaks for Fedora if gaming is the priority? I have an AMD rig so installing drivers won’t be a problem.

TL;DR: can Fedora KDE/Gnome be tuned/set up easily for gaming?

Hi everyone,

I recently made the switch to Fedora Workstation, and I’m loving the experience so far. Coming into the ecosystem fresh, I’d love to gather some recommendations from the community to help me set up a clean, functional, and visually pleasing workstation.

I would greatly appreciate your top suggestions in a few key areas:

1. GNOME Extensions & UI Customization

What are your must-have GNOME extensions for workflow and aesthetic improvements?

Any recommended themes, icon packs, or glassmorphism/blur effects that look great and run smoothly on Fedora?

Custom top bar or dock setups that you find both stylish and practical?

1. Must-Have Applications

What daily-driver applications or productivity tools do you consider essential on Fedora?

Any great Flatpak tools, hardware control utilities, or system monitors you rely on?

1. Essential Terminal Commands & CLI Tools

Are there any useful terminal tweaks, dnf configuration tricks, or aliases every new Fedora user should set up?

Favorite modern CLI utilities (like fastfetch, eza, bat, system monitoring tools, etc.) that improve the terminal experience?

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)

Can someone help me with something specific? I need to share videos on Zoom meetings using the "optimize for video clip" option for smoother sharing. I plan to install Fedora 44 on my machine, but that feature working well is mandatory for my job. I've heard of some people having problems with this due to technical issues. If someone could be so kind as to test this for me or assure me that it will work well, I'd be very grateful :))

Hi! I just installed Fedora on my computer. I'm kinda new to Linux and want to ditch Windows completely. How should I set it up to play games smoothly without any problems?

I'm trying to find something simple you mouse click on the input field , hit a couple of keys speak and it types for you , like windows key+H is their any thing like this ? I don't want to speak , then have to copy from a box or clipboard , want it direct like Blindows