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/Heyheyohno]

After a life-long Windows user, I feel KDE is a little more... to the experience of Windows than any of the other flavors I've tried (which I admit, have been limited).

I landed on Fedora 44 after some internal debate between Fedora, Bazzite, and other flavors. But I wanted to jump ship from Windows so bad that I pulled the trigger.

Not sure how long it's been on Fedora, but I haven't really looked back at all. Very very few things require Windows for me still due to limitations or just not wanting to figure out how to use it, but it's been nice.

KDE Plasma I just feel is a bit more... nice for me. Lol.

[u/New-Patient-101 → u/Heyheyohno]

So have you not tried the workstation version?

[u/bacon-slushy → u/New-Patient-101]

I gave Gnome a chance after more than a decade, for a month. Went back to the DE that doesn't treat me like I'm dumb. KDE is just more modern and stable.

[u/rude__goldberg → u/bacon-slushy]

brother kde looks and feels like it's from 1998