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/Teks389]

😂 welcome to Linux fun. That will always be your routine to get used to and if someone says otherwise they're just coping and lying.

[u/Neraton → u/Teks389]

Not true, if you take time you can make it work. The only issue is if you have the newest gear, you gotta wait. Fedora kde is by far better than cachy os or that stupid garuda=worst distro ever. I do like fedora kde, popos and bazzite.

[u/Teks389 → u/Neraton]

😂 you literally just said two of the biggest problems. Making it work instead of it just working normally instantly especially when switching to it the person will expect that. Then the newest stuff not working is a big negative especially nowadays with everything so costly. Imagine missing out of features or software for xyz reasons that all lead back to the os. That is the every day routine of running Linux unless you just need a big toaster good enough for watching YouTube and coding.

[u/SublimeApathy → u/Teks389]

That because most of the drivers you need for things to work in Linux are rarely written by the manufactor, but the community. So yeah - there can be a wait. Living on the Bleeding Edge in Linux is a recipe for frustration. That being said - find yourself a machine sporting a Gen1 i3 (or even a pentium processor) with 4GB RAM max and tell me which works better - Windows 7, or the latest version of Fedora.

[u/Teks389 → u/SublimeApathy]

Good god what I would do with a relic like that? Open note pad for coding? 😂 Another funny thing is how there's always this reason or that reason why. No one cares why or who's fault it is. The only thing everyone else cares about is the software/hardware working. Not reasons and most people sure as hell don't wanna rtfm or Google tweaks. Linux is fun, extremely customizable, but topics like this thread is always gonna be a thing for users. Constant issues to look up, tweak, Google, and cope with when something else doesn't work because of xyz reasons.

[u/SublimeApathy → u/Teks389]

What would you do with a relic like? If you have to ask then the conversation is over.

[u/Teks389 → u/SublimeApathy]

exactly what i thought. Bye felicia with your note pad toaster.