r/Fedora

I am using fedora workstation 44 and many things that I use I have to use gnome extensions for them a simple thing as a clipboard manager.

I do like gnome and how the layout feels but for now I want to move to KDE. Is there any way possible to move to KDE without reinstall and remove gnome completely. I read the article on this but they didn't mentioned anything about removing desktop environment.

Thanks a lot for the help.

I'm tired of Windows and want to eventually make a switch to Linux. My question is: Is Fedora or a fork of it the right distro for me?

I know Nobara is a fork that could work for me, but I prefer Fedora (even I don't know why).

Hardware:

• ASUS ROG laptop
• AMD Ryzen 9 6000-series
• Nvidia RTX 3060 Laptop GPU

What I want:

• Lightweight, low bloat, but ships with or easily supports a text editor, VS Code, and common media playback
• Windows game support via Steam/Proton (no anti-cheat games primarily) + good for running pre-installed games
• Easy customization (considering KDE Plasma, possibly Hyprland later)
• Good for daily driving, terminal access is fine but shouldn't be required for everything
• Good driver support for AMD Ryzen 9 6000-series hybrid GPU + Nvidia 3060
• ROG hardware support (fan curves, performance profiles, keyboard RGB) equivalent of Armoury Crate
• Minimal boot time (more of a cool-to-have)

Hello, I am receiving my Framework laptop tomorrow, and I plan on installing Fedora 44. I have never used linux before, I am just so tired of windows. I will mostly be playing some steam games and doing some Cad work (I use in browser cad software). Any tips or anything I should know before diving in?

I keep my systems pretty minimal. I like the server edition, its default (base?) packages are very reasonable.

What I need to know is if it's recommendable to use fedora 44 on devices where I kind of don't want to be installing huge amounts of updated packages every two weeks. I don't use a desktop environment, I use sway. Flatpak for most of my apps that aren't system critical.

Hey everyone,
I recently switched from Windows 11 to Fedora 44 GNOME on my laptop:

DELL Latitude 7400
i7 8th Gen - 16GB RAM

The system is honestly very stable and looks great, but I feel like the text rendering and overall screen clarity are not as sharp or comfortable as they were on Windows, especially when reading text in the browser or even inside the system settings. My laptop has a Full HD display.

Right now, fonts seem a bit blurry or not properly scaled, and after some browsing or reading I start feeling noticeable eye strain. I was wondering if there are recommended settings for GNOME/Fedora to improve font rendering, scaling, DPI, anti-aliasing, or overall display sharpness so the image quality matches the screen better.

Any tips, tweaks, or recommended font settings would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!🙏

Hi everyone,

I’m seeking advice on a persistent system freeze/hang issue on Fedora 44 that is affecting both the 6.19.10 and 7.0.9 kernel series. I’ve ruled out NVIDIA driver issues (they aren't even probed at the time of the crash), and the logs point to a failure in the AMD display engine.

Hardware context:

• Laptop with AMD Integrated Graphics + NVIDIA RTX 4060.
• OS: Fedora 44 (Stable).
• Kernels tested: 6.19.10-300.fc44.x86_64 and 7.0.9-202.fc44.x86_64.

The Issue: The system freezes randomly. Upon rebooting, journalctl -b -1 -p err reveals recurring amdgpu errors:

• amdgpu 0000:65:00.0: [drm] *ERROR* dc_dmub_srv_log_diagnostic_data: DMCUB error - collecting diagnostic data
• amdgpu 0000:65:00.0: [drm] *ERROR* [CRTC:363:crtc-0] flip_done timed out

These freezes are often preceded by Vulkan swapchain errors from apps like Ptyxis and Brave Browser (vkAcquireNextImageKHR(): A swapchain no longer matches the surface properties exactly), which seems to trigger the display driver to hang.

What I have tried:

• Confirmed this is not an NVIDIA driver/Secure Boot issue (the proprietary modules were blacklisted for testing, yet the crashes persist).
• Verified the issue occurs on both the latest stable kernel and the newer 7.0 kernel.
• Suspect it is a power-management state conflict between the kernel's AMD display controller and the laptop's firmware.

Questions:

1. Is there a known regression or specific kernel parameter to stabilize the amdgpu DMUB on newer kernels for this hardware architecture?
2. Has anyone else seen these flip_done timeouts triggered by Vulkan-based apps?

Any insight would be appreciated before I open a formal bug on Bugzilla.

I can't believe it, the upgrade from Fedora 43 to 44 was so smooth and seamless for me.

Nothing broke, my workflows didn't change, and it feels incredibly refined and polished.

Some may believe it's boring, but this is why Fedora is such an amazing Linux distro, the release cycle is frequent enough that it's cutting edge, but reliability and stability are so good that I can't see myself going back to other distros such as Linux Mint.

It just works and the maintenance is so low after you get past the initial setup, which is already incredibly user-friendly.

I switched from Bazzite to Fedora because my graphics card (AMD bought specifically so I could smoothly switch to Linux) died while running Bazzite. The card was replaced under warranty and it was almost definitely nothing to do with the OS but I’m the anxious type so it took me many months to return to Linux at all and I was too nervous to go back to Bazzite.

However with the range of attacks on Linux recently, I’m wondering whether an Atomic distro like Bazzite would offers extra security protection that seems increasingly important.

Interested in others’ take on this.

I am trying to uninstall Brave Brower, repo, and all associated files. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong and what the solution is?

Fedora says that I've still got their repo enabled, and these files are still in Dolphin.

My attempts at removal have resulted in

sudo dnf remove brave-browser brave-keyring

No packages to remove for argument: brave-browser
No packages to remove for argument: brave-keyring

sudo rm /etc/yum.repos.d/brave-browser-*.repo
sudo rpm -e gpg-pubkey-c2d4e821-5e7252b8

rm: cannot remove '/etc/yum.repos.d/brave-browser-*.repo': No such file or directory
error: package gpg-pubkey-c2d4e821-5e7252b8 is not installed

Any help is appreciated. I feel dumb for installing this and I feel dumb being unable to remove it.

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Hi there! Just out of curiosty, do you guys use Nautilus (gnome files) of something else? I feel like Nautilus is beautiful but lacks some nice features (like dragigin with alt to create a symlink) so eventually installed nemo and I love it.

What file manager do you use or recommend? and why?
(I used to distro hop, then I started webbrowser hoppinh, maybe its time to start filemanagers hopping? lol)

Fedora Atomic on the Azure Linux base for Microsoft cloud platforms 😉

As the title suggests, I've been having pretty severe issues with my display drivers for the past few days. The most recent kernel is severely bugged on my system and refuses to use my Nvidia display driver while refusing to allow me to use my terminal and launch my browser.

Anyone ever had this sort of behaviour?

So far the only workaround is using the older kernel, which also breaks my drivers and I keep having to reinstall them for some reason.

Laptop Asus G14 from 2021

3060 series dedicated GPU

all worked fine up until aprox. 3-4 days ago.

I've seen the announcement of Fedora Hummingbird, but, what is it actually, and will it be a user option or something for the enterprise world and companies in the first place?

Another question: is it rolling release, or like any other Fedora spin?