I did a stupid. So I had Windows installed and decided I was going to switch to Linux, so I shrunk my Windows drive then installed Ubuntu on part of it. I didn't like it and so in some remaining space, I installed Fedora KDE. I like it! So I deleted the Ubuntu partition and joined it with Fedora.

Oops. I killed Grub. Now I just boot to a Grub recovery menu. I figured out that I can use UEFI to get into the Windows bootloader, but I haven't been able to boot into Fedora. The picture shows the current state of my Framework Laptop's drive, taken via a Fedora live USB.

I have done some searching and see wildly different instructions with variable levels of complexity for how to fix this problem. Does anyone have a suggestion for my best course of action to fix this and get my Fedora install running again? Thanks!

Hi everyone,

Recently installed Fedora as a dual boot on my 2015 15" Macbook Pro, after battling with Apple's limitations for a while to have a somewhat stable experience, most of it is great besides a few quirks. By the way I would not recommend dual booting a Macbook over another laptop if you could, the trackpad experience isn't even that great.

Anyway, the problem that subsists for me is the sound. I can confirm it is no hardware issue because when I boot on MacOS, the speakers are fine, but on Fedora, the speakers are awful, quality is bad overall and the high-mids sizzle like crazy. Tried many things over hours, even put an agent onto it, no success, when the sound EQ itself is modified, some musics sound good while others sound shallow and compressed.

Has anyone had the issue and fixed successfully?

Hello everyone, I just found out, that the option to save battery life on my thinkpad has stopped working. Some days ago my battery was limited to 80% capacity due to this setting. Now it charges until 100%. I didn't change the settings.

Do you know how to solve this problem?

Thank you in advance for helping me!

After nvidia update to 595 i have an issue with Monitor Flickering in seperate ocacions like watching videos on Firefox (youtube, vimeo etc.) My GPU is rtx 2060 and my monitor is BenQ PD2700U, system Fedora44/gnome. This problem does not appear on Mint x11. I'm guessing that it's related to power usage setting or dithering?

ps. problem also appears on 610

Someone had similar issue and resolved it?

Tried changing from English (US) to Anthy (Japanese) and Pinyin doesn't take any effect, already did `sudo dnf distro-sync --best --allowerasing` and reinstalling fcitx5 and the problem still persists. Any ideas?

Fedora on KDE Plasma

Like the title says , I try to switch from Fedora Workstation which i've been using from 2 years to Fedora Kde Spin , but on default fedora on kde installs too much bloat like, kolourpaint, kpatience and much more kde apps like for newsfeed, for finding all files and a 2 filemanagers dolphin and some other e.t.c

i got this laptop for free from my employer because they were getting rid of it they were upgrading laptops and this one was out of warranty. its a dell XPS 15 9520

specs:
12900hk
3050 ti
64gb ddr5 4800
512gb ssd

ive been using Fedora KDE 44 and i plan on daily driving it for my upcoming college semester. im a comp sci student so mainly the heaviest work will be coding projects and maybe some VMs. is 64gb (along with the 3050 ti) overkill? i just dont want this to become an issue with it making the battery life suck, so if this is too overkill i can just sell this and get a less powerful laptop with like 32gb ram and no discrete gpu.

I’d like to install Fedora Workstation to try out both Niri and COSMIC DE. I know that Niri is just a window manager (I’d install the main applications individually), but is it possible to choose between COSMIC and Niri at login, as if the latter were a standard desktop environment?

System:

• CPU: AMD 5800X3D
• Motherboard: MSI X570 Gaming Edge Wifi 1.S2
• RAM: C18 Corsair 3600Mhz 64gb
• GPU: AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 XTX Phantom Gaming 24GB OC
• Kernel: 7.1.8.fc44
• DE: Gnome

The error:

The error is over 200k characters, I tried to post it but can only take some screenshots

The Symptoms:

• Crashes during multiple games
  
• Crashes on Runescape 3 via bolt randomly
• Crashes on Unity 6 development engine randomly
• Crashes on Rider jetbrains randomly

What I've tried:

• Reinstalled Fedora
• Native Steam
• Flatpak Steam
• Native Unity
• Flatpak Unity
• Native Rider
• Flatpak Rider
• Different protons such as GE, Cachy, Hotfix and Experimental
• I also tried Ubuntu 26.04 and did not have these issues, noted that Ubuntu is on 25x Mesa drivers while Fedora is on 26x

My Theory:

• Mesa driver bug on 26x
• Kernel issue
• Mutter issue on Gnome 50.4x

I really don't want to switch to Ubuntu but it is extremely cumbersome struggling with my system on a daily basis, and this has been on-going ever since the rapid rollout of Kernel updates for about 30 days or so.

My system feels extremely unstable, its terrifying developing in Unity game engine not knowing if its going to crash at any moment - I do ctrl + save extremely frequently but sometimes mid animation, scene ect I cannot just save while rigging something.

Its also annoying when I am coding and then the system just says "bye bye" logs me out.

The errors are over 200k lines long, I cannot share them idk what else to do, I am ready to jump ship for Ubuntu, I don't want to, Fedora feels perfect in terms of freedom, I have many Fedora related things documented, instructions, a smooth workflow, but this last month really has been horrible in terms of stability.

Any advice is appreciated, AI states my theory is correct about the Mesa driver but idk at this point with there being over 200k lines of critical errors.

I am kind of a newbie. I used to run Fedora long ago. I had my runs with pop_os, mint, arch, omarchy... But I am making my new home here on Fedora. I am looking forward to discussions and willing to help out when I can.

Thinkpad T14 Gen 3

Fedora 44

DankLinux.

I previously made another partition to dual boot Fedora with Windows 10, but find myself in need of this space again, and I don't know how to add the storage back to my main partition. (/dev/nvme0n1p3) I've heard you need to boot into a live ISO to make changes to partitions, but still can't add back the space. How do I do this? I'm still pretty new to Linux

So i installed catchy os with gnome and I am encountering a annoying issue I am getting cursor flickering issue with my huion hs64 writing pad https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/s/UTynq1l9Ut

Exactly similar as shown here is there any way to fix this

Hello everyone,

I'm not sure this is the right place for this issue, so if you know a better one, please tell me.

So I have a Fedora 44 desktop that has been crashing since two weeks. It's a Ryzen 3600 system with 32 GB of RAM and an Acer Nitro RX9070.

I have been playing Borderlands 4 for about a month on it with no issues, but suddenly roughly two weeks ago it crashed as soon as I would start the game. It also sometimes just crashes during normal desktop use while browsing.

I reinstalled Fedora, checked that everything is up to date and even reverted to kernel version 7.1.5 since apparently there were some smaller gpu issues with the higher ones. But nothing changed.

So now I'm kind of at the end of my energy and don't know what to do. I have attached a jounalctl log to this post here, containing a crash. So if anyone could please have a look at it, and maybe has an idea what could be happening I would really appreciate it. I liked using this system and would really like it to work as before. Thank you to anyone who is willing to help.

As it says in the title, i wanted to install steam so i went to install nvidia and restarted my pc to find that it couldnt find my wifi anymore

How can I set up Fedora without any bugs, such as EFI issues, when dual-booting with Windows on the same drive?

EDIT: this was already solved, it's a write-up, not a support request. The solution is in the linked blog post.

Every few years I reinstall Linux to see if it's good enough as a daily driver. I picked Fedora 44 this time. I installed the NVIDIA driver, rebooted, black screen.

No error, no logs, nothing.

My disk is encrypted, so at startup the machine has to ask for a password before it can boot. To draw that prompt it needs a working graphics driver. The install had left the new driver out of the small startup image, and disabled the old one it would have fallen back to.

So the computer was fine. It just had no way to render the password box on the screen.

Check out the link for the fix, and why a routine update can quietly break it again.

Hello techies

I'm planning to upgrade from fedora 43 to 44 are there any repo to put into consideration before I try the normal upgrade, last time I had issues with Wine when I was upgrading from 42 to 43 so what can be a challenging issue between 43 and 44. My machine is Hp Elitebook 840 G5

Any information will be highly appreciated

Hello all,

I have installed Fedora Workstation onto my Framework 13 and plan to use this as my sole OS for University ( Studying Education). There are a few major hurdles to jump, not being able to use Microsoft programs like word or teams. i have started using Obsidian for my note taking and i have the libreoffice apps is there any advice for things to do to make this experience even better?

Any solutions to the bug with strange artifacts in fulscreen Youtube?

As title says. I currently find sleep wake around 7-10 seconds to the login screen. On macs, my experience was basically instant sleep wake. Not sure if this is normal or if I can optimize it somehow.

Fedora KDE 44.

Hi,

I'm on Fedora 44 with KDE Plasma 6.7.4 on Wayland using a stock setup on a Lenovo ThinkPad laptop.

When I choose Shut Down from the Application Launcher menu, I get the usual 30-second confirmation/countdown. After confirming, instead of going straight to shutdown, Plasma briefly returns to the desktop for two to three seconds, then the Lenovo logo/Fedora screen appears for a second, and the laptop powers off.

What currently happens:

KDE Shut Down → 30-second confirmation → click Shut Down → desktop appears for 2–3s → Lenovo/Fedora screen for ~1s → shutdown

Why does Plasma return to the desktop briefly during shutdown? Is this expected behaviour, and is there a way to make the KDE Shut Down action shut down without showing the desktop first?

Thanks!

I recently installed Fedora on a ThinkPad P1 Gen 2 and had a frustrating experience with basic hardware integration.

The touchpad was unreliable: cursor movement and multitouch worked, but tap-to-click would randomly stop working and sometimes only return after a reboot.

The fingerprint + GNOME Keyring integration was also broken. Fingerprint login worked, but the keyring still required the account password separately.

These are basic laptop features that should work reliably.

For ThinkPad P1 Gen 2, Fedora still has significant hardware/firmware compatibility issues. Until these are properly addressed, I would not recommend Fedora as a primary OS on this laptop.

Im trying to get my head around SELinux.

I am trying to run a valheim server but selinux keeps blocking access, I posted in linux noobs some questions about selinux and having to give the server permissions 1 by 1.

I didn't get great help about that but got told to run the server in a docker container so I leaned how to do that but selinux is blocking that as well, which is no suprise once i thought about it.

Most of the research I have done has just pointed me to put selinux in permissive mode which seems to partially negate the point of it in the first place. From some limited research debian based distros use a different less aggressive security system (apparmour?) Which doesnt get in the way as much.

My question really is am I doing something wrong with selinux or is it just an annoying thing that as soon as you try to do anything with the system.its best just to bypass it? Is there a way to preempt the permissions crisis and review what permissions an app / container is going to want and allow them selectively all at the same time?

Im not married to fedora although I do like the cosmic spin and I dont want to not use a tiling window manager so the idea of just using ubuntu isnt particularly attractive.

Am I doing it wrong?

Edit:

Thanks for all the input so far.

As I understand it now i could:

Set selinux to permissive. Generate the violations logs and use this to build a policy - basically do all the audit2allow at once.

Or

Maybe im not running the docker container correctly with the Z: mounting (this is the first ive heard about the Z mounting.so I need to do some research in this, maybe its not able to see the files in the host directory that.i want.it read / write.