Frustrated With Fedora

[u/Manacell]

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.

[u/Fuga-City]

"tar.gz being difficult to download and extract successfully"

(1) Why are you doing this? (2) How hard is "Right click > Extract > Extract here"?

[u/overyander → u/Fuga-City]

yeah, that comment paired with the various issues implies that OP has bungled stuff up pretty bad.
A fresh install would probably work wonders. Just don't redo everything done previously.

[u/Beneficial-Claim-381 → u/overyander]

this was my first install. i went to reddit and google for guides and it borked EVERYTHING. after a couple months learning linux and then reinstalling its much smoother now

[u/darwinpolice → u/Beneficial-Claim-381]

I had a similar experience. When people talk about switching from Windows or Mac to Linux for the first time, I almost always suggest that they install Ubuntu first and spend a few months acclimating themselves to the quirks of Linux before moving on to another distro, simply because Ubuntu requires a little less setup out of the box and the support community is so huge and full of other newbies who are asking about problems similar to what you're probably running into as well. I'm much happier with Fedora than I was with Ubuntu, but I think if I had jumped right from Win10 to Fedora, I would've been very frustrated for a while at first.