I'm thinking about switching from Ubuntu to Fedora. Lately, I've been reading more about the distribution, and I'm starting to like not just the overall system, but especially the background behind it. For instance, Red Hat is reportedly a really good employer that takes great care of its employees, and I also like that a large portion of Fedora's development takes place in my home country, the Czech Republic. The whole development approach, the community, and even Red Hat itself seem much friendlier to me than Canonical with Ubuntu.

​Does Fedora have any specific differences compared to Ubuntu? And I don't mean Flatpak vs. Snap or frequent updates, but rather whether Fedora has any unique characteristics when working with hardware and similar aspects.

​Thank you for your answers😊

ive been running fedora with gnome for the past few years and recently i got this virus on my pc and ive never seen anything like this does anyone have any idea on how to fix this?

Running an update made it obvious: Fedora 44 finally released today. Although it may take a few hours for the website to reflect this.

If you are an Nvidia user, you may need to take note of this.

If your GPU was among the batch that just came out of support with the release of the 590 driver (1000 series or earlier), you will need to use an earlier driver. Although the guide on the RPM Fusion guide hasn't been update yet, they did release the legacy 580 driver already.

After upgrading (or installing) Fedora 44, you will be rebooted with Nouveau, as the newer 595 driver doesn't recognise your GPU. Simply follow the steps for any of the previous legacy drivers (such as 470), simply replacing the number in the file name for 580. You can delete the current driver first as you won't need it.

Here is the guide in question:

https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA

And for the lazy, here are the full instructions that you can copy and paste (this will remove the current version before installing the legacy one):

sudo dnf update
sudo dnf remove xorg-x11-drv-nvidia\* akmod-nvidia\*
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia-580xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-580xx

Don't forget to wait about 5 minutes before rebooting, if you don't want to be left at a black screen for what feels like forever ;)

If you are installing Fedora 44 from scratch, you should also follow this guide first:

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

Hi everyone, after thinking about it for a while, I decided to install Fedora and ditch Windows, since I want to focus on learning to program. From all my research, Fedora seems like a good option. I plan to learn Python for professional development and to broaden my career prospects. I'd appreciate your help on what I should do first when starting out on Fedora. I feel good about it because it feels clean and straightforward. Thanks in advance.

I'm also using a Lenovo Yoga.

I've been on Fedora 44 (and Linux) for nearly a month now after switching from Windows 10, and I've run into consistent, frustrating issues:

• Monitor randomly won't turn on despite peripherals and PC lighting up.
• Computer will randomly have no WiFi input.
• Firefox crashes at least once a week
• The persistent crash notifications that I can't turn off despite deleting 'em!
• Everything randomly being magnified.
• tar.gz being difficult to download and extract successfully.
• Xbox controller bluetooth not working. The whole bluetooth system!

I'm not computer illiterate and can figure things out reasonably well, but these issues have made it very frustrating to stay with Fedora/Linux, and I intentionally chose Fedora for it's privacy recommendations. I hate Windows, but at least everything worked and I didn't have to power down my PC 2-3 times a day for things to work.

Before I throw in the towel, are any of these issues fixable? Is Fedora not compatible with my PC or something? Or is Fedora 44 incredibly unstable?

My computer info:

Operating System: Fedora Linux 44

KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.4

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.29.0

Qt Version: 6.11.2

Kernel Version: 7.1.13-200.fc44.x86_64 (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor

Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.5 GiB usable)

Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

Product Name: X570 I AORUS PRO WIFI

System Version: -CF

EDIT/UPDATE: Thank you all so much for the support! I did try GNOME, but unfortunately I disliked it, and was having similar issues. So I swapped back to KDE and took some advice in the comments about NVIDIA drivers, and it solved a lot of my problems! So thank you to the kind users who suggested troubleshooting NVIDIA!

A second quick note: there are a lot of passive-aggressive and flippant comments in this thread. Remember to be kind. It's everyone's first time at something, even if you're the current first-chair violinist at Carnegie Hall. You had a first time, too.

Before a few days, I used fedora from an external ssd and it was absolutely an incredible experience. I found out fedora is very good and works perfectly fine on my laptop, so I decided my final decision which deleting windows completely from my laptop and install fedora as my main os.

I did this because there's a few things that made do this:

I study backend development and want to study linux. Also I want to study devops in the future.

Do not play games because I have a laptop.

Do not use Adobe or Microsoft programs.

Windows was taking half of my ram without opining any app (I have 8gb ram. Windows was taking 5gb to 7gb without doing anything, but fedora only takes 2gb which is a huge difference).

I Want to try new things, and I like learning technology.

What are your recommendation for a new fedora user? if you use fedora for a long time maybe years, how do you feel about fedora? was my decision right about deleting windows completely from my device.?

Is it just me?

1st time I've tried to install it via some random method from a 1st site listed on google, which resulted a black screen after logging in.

Tried to fix it via blocking nvidia in grub menu (added nvidia to rb.driver.blacklist=, modprobe.blacklist= and systemd.unit=multi-user.target before that line) booted up, passed log-in screen in low res and tried to roll back the drivers(failed miserably).

2nd installation. Tried too install them with sudo dnf install nvdia-driver. Installed. Rebooted. Second screen is not working, and main one stuck at like 480p. Google didn't offer any help. In the last ditch effort I ask infamous chatgpt. Turned off safe boot(On the first install i couldn't use keyboard because fast boot was enabled, so I had to reset bios via unmounting the cmos battery, and then putting it back. So that's probably why it was enabled) Tried to go to X11 from wayland(My fedora is KDE) After like 20 minutes of struggling to make a config... It was stuck on "No irq handler for 10.55" while booting. GREAT, AWESOME, IMMACULATE! After finagling with live boot and mounting, It's my 3rd reinstall.

If somebody could help my god forsaken soul, than my gratitude would not no any bounds... It's 4 hours already, and Im losing my mind

Sorry for recording with my phone, fresh install, don't have OBS set up yet.

Anyway - GNOME decided to change SOMETHING again and window positioning is wack.

On Debian in GNOME 48 I am able to drag Ferdium window to the second monitor, close it from the tray icon, and when I open it again, it opens where I left it before.

On Fedora 42 it worked the same.

On Fedora 43 with GNOME 49 the window opens on my main monitor EVERY TIME.

Do they really HAVE TO break everything for every single release? Are they trying to be KDE? Anyone knows if this can be fixed?

linux noob here. i wanted help on how to configure my laptop, so that it looks crazy sick like they show in these posts on reddit. one of my friends said i need to switch on hyprland for the absolute crazy stuff.

I nearly lost my important projects in Windows 11 .. it’s not gonna happen again! My friend recommended Fedora for me.
I’m a complete zero in Linux any “Important” tips?

I used to use Arch Linux and it took like 40 seconds to boot and was unstable so I switched to fedora, which still takes long to boot. Once booted though it works fine but I’m just sick of the loading times. For reference my boot loader is grub and I don’t have any other operating systems that I use on that drive

I am in gnome fedora and I installed spotify via flatpak, but on my second laptop which has KDE fedora the upper spotify app panel is normal. I tried many things to change this nothing worked. suggest me something or if there is any gnome extension to fix it.

**fixed**

solution: Install flatseal by dnf or flatpak, and turn off "fallback to x11" and "wayland windows manager".

thanks to: u/Fernomin

Hi, when I move my mouse between two monitors, it briefly gets stuck at the edge, so I have to move it quickly to get across. Since my mouse sensitivity is low, this is frustrating. How can I disable this? I found a “Corner Barrier” option in the settings, but I couldn't find an option to disable the edge barrier.

EDIT: SOLVED! Thanks.

anyone gaming on Fedora KDE Plasma? tried this controller? works for you no problem? I'm shopping around. 55USD on Amazon

Is it safe to use? Currently testing

I'm new to Linux as a whole, please explain like I'm 5!

KDE 6.6, Thinkpad E14 Gen 6 with AMD Ryzen 7 and 16gb ram

It also happens to me with Godot almost everytime, and I've no idea how to fix it

I recently updated to Fedora 44

I am having hard time selecting which music service to get.
On Windows I used Apple Music but Linux does not have Apple Music and web version is not good.

Spotify desktop app is terrible. YT music does not offer lossless music.

EDIT 2 - Update fixed it

It seems like one of the recent updates fixed the issue, the videos now look properly again, with Hardware Acceleration enabled.

Operating System:

Operating System: Fedora Linux 44
KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.29.0
Qt Version: 6.11.2
Kernel Version: 7.1.13-200.fc44.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

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EDIT 1 - Temporary Fix

Temporary Fix is to disable Hardware Acceleration, if you are annoyed enough by this. I am at this point.

For Chromium based Browsers, copy this, paste to URL field, enter.

chrome://flags/#disable-accelerated-video-decode

set to

Disable

in Firefox based browsers:

Settings, search for

Performance

uncheck

Use recommended performance settings

This Fix is temporary, because... well it shouldn't even be one, Hardware Acceleration is good, because it makes your CPU work less, because the GPU helps out, as it should. If it's turned off, CPU does all the work. Since a bunch of people from, other Distros who had a recent update, have the same problem, it's a Kernel issue probably and what ever rust vibe-coded error this is should be fixed.

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Origina post:

This is from the middle of the screen.

I tested video playback from VLC it's fine.

Operating System:

Operating System: Fedora Linux 44
KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.29.0
Qt Version: 6.11.1
Kernel Version: 7.1.8-200.fc44.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

I bought my son a little HP OmniDesk Slim for school.

It came with Windows 11 preinstalled. He’s had issues with it from the start. Apps crashing, slow load times, ram running at 80% even when nothing is opened.

He pretty much does school and plays Minecraft, that’s it. He does record his games and then some light editing on DiVinci. We know it’s not the strongest computer for all that.

I run Fedora 44 on GNOME on my Mini PC and it runs like a dream. He tried it and liked it, now he’s thinking of moving over. I told him Fedora KDE might be a good option. I also stumbled on Catchy KDE the other day and thought that might be a good option.

I like this community so I figured I’d ask here. Neither of us are huge into computers. I run a Mac Mini as my daily driver and my Mini PC for tinkering and playing. He’s only used Windows.

What version of Linux will run best for him? Fedora or Catchy (never tried it). KDE or GNOME?

I'm done installing Fedora 44 GNOME on my LAPTOP GTX1650

Now I'm having a problem 😂 lol, I don't have wifi and Bluetooth 😭

UPDATE !! I resolved it by just installing drivers

I want a distro which is terminal centric but not too hard like Arch,I want a learning curve but have no starting point you see. Also how would you rate Fedora in comparison to Debian?

Thank you