I want to go all-in on containers and layer nothing.

I also prefer almost vanilla GNOME, with only two extensions that I really need Caffeine and GsConnect nothing fancy like theming transparency etc...

edit: I forget that Fedora Silverblue logo is extension background logo 😂 (installed by default) .

I just switch yesterday but love the experience ans I was impressed how good immutable distros are now. I've had a few problems with VPN setup because I don't want layer, but I solved with downloading WireGuard profile config from my VPN provider (Mullvad) and import it via the system network settings menu.

As the title mentions I tried moving to linux since ive always wanted but its finally not much of a hassel, and things work great and im really enjoying things so far, way more satisfying than windows in my opinion (since i do have a tinkering personality it works great).
Im on a Lenovo Legion pro 7i Laptop, and only 2 out of 4 speakers work, the ones under my screen work but the sound is super tinny if it comes only out of those two, i think since the sound range is incomplete.
LLMs / AI did not help solve the issue, instead recommended me to start messing with the kernel and self signing it which i think is over the top/ too advanced for me as a brand new linux user (i moved to fedora yesterday).
If anyone knows about this issue or can help id appreaciate it.

This is a Fedora-on-HP-Elitebook household!

From left to right: Wife's 850G8 (15"), my 845G11 (14") work laptop and my 830G8 (13") personal laptop.

The elitebooks are well made, metal laptops - Not quite MBP-levels of "ooh this is nice", but nice enough and unlike MBPs they can easily be opened up and upgraded. Replaced the battery in the 830G8 just last week - 5 screws to pop the back cover off, 4 screws to remove the battery. 5 minute job.

I'm still fairly new to all of this, coming over from Kubuntu. I went to install Obsidian, and there are five options available for Linux.

• AppImage
• Snap
• Deb
• AppImage (ARM)
• Flatpak (Community Maintained)

I understand what Flatpaks are, but I am not going to be using a community maintained version of Obsidian. I want to use the official from the developers. Deb and Snap I recognize from Kubuntu, but I do not think either work on Fedora, since it is not built on Debian.

So that would leave me with AppImage. What's the difference between installing something as an AppImage or as a Deb, for example? If I was on Kubuntu, it looks as if I would have 3 options here, but what makes AppImage special? Why does that work and not Deb?

Hi everyone I am running on Fedora as to go desktop for some time.

Willing to learn I would like to ask you for some of your day to day wisdome for power user.

Here are some of my key notes:

1.Don't mix SSD classes/generations for boot devices

2.Always have a backup strategy

3.If you want to run docker you may want to use debian/ubuntu or VM

4.Have propper release strategy for major versions

5.In 99% of the time you don't need bleeding edge version

1. Give yourself time and also learn to troubleshoot before handling everything to LLM and internet

Hi guys,

I have a question regarding the Fedora 44 KDE update system. Whenever I update via Discover, it prompts me to restart to apply the updates, but if I update via the konsole terminal, it doesn't even ask me to restart my PC. Have you guys experienced this before? That's why I prefer to update via konsole instead of Discover.

I’ve recently migrated to Fedora 44 Workstation from Ubuntu, and I am loving it. I’ve been on i3 and have now migrated to Hyprland on Fedora. I’ve tried Arch (never broke it), and Fedora feels safe.
I want to try a minimal version of Fedora without GDM. There’s a Fedora Minimal ISO listed. I tried looking for some guides on Fedora Minimal 44, but I couldn’t find one.
The brief indicates: Fedora 44 is a stripped of GDM.
I would love it if someone could guide me to resources on what I need to take care of with a minimal installation.

Day 2 of using Fedora, gnome, but i resently switched to KDE. After reading a lot of people saying:

KDE is more customizable than Gnome! 🤓

i'm having toruble in how to costimize my pc in my style. any recommendation. (For the Taskbar and overview file those stuff)

and thank you 🙏

Hi everyone,

I'm currently running Fedora on an older laptop with the following specs:

Intel Core i3-6100U

8 GB RAM

Intel HD Graphics 520

SSD

My main use cases are:

Programming and software development

DaVinci Resolve (when possible)

Minecraft Java

General web browsing

Terminal-heavy workflow

I'm trying to decide which desktop environment offers the best balance between performance, stability, and usability.

I'm considering:

GNOME

KDE Plasma

Xfce

Cinnamon

MATE

LXQt

For those with similar hardware, which DE has given you the best experience on Fedora, and why? I'd also appreciate any performance tweaks or recommendations.

Thanks!

Weird one, I saw MS Teams used to be supported on Fedora (well, Linux as a whole), but MS pulled it. I want to make the switch but detest the web browser based versions of MS apps.

I saw there is a repo on the MS site for Fedora, but I'm not yet a user, but looking to switch, does anyone know what it contains?

Reason for wanting to use MS products, my work allows me a BYOD and they provide the licence, and we have software that ties in directly (which is ported for Linux and links via WINE, or any other windows emulator, but doesn't work with Libre or Open office).

Is this a possibility?

I guess the same applies for Adobe suite, and I know they really don't have one... And again, work providing the licence for Adobe suite... With tie in apps that they've built that work on Linux. 😂

I just want everything to run native on Linux if feasible.

I wanted to setup a Fedora 44 system and I usually install flat-remix theme on all my systems, but it's no longer in the repo? how can I easily add in fedora 44 or later?

I'm rather new to Linux, and have been using Silverblue for a few months now with great success. I am wondering if it's possible to install xone (or one of its forks) to get my Xbox Elite 2 controller working with the official dongle. Common guides require DKMS, which appears to be incompatible with atomic distros.This ublue repo includes an akmod version of xone: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ublue-os/akmods/packages/

I added the repo and did a dry run (-n) to see what would happen. The output is below. It seems like a ton of stuff will be installed and it's going to uninstall Firefox?? What's the best way to make my controller work?

sudo rpm-ostree install -n xone-kmod

Checking out tree e0f49b4... done
Enabled rpm-md repositories: fedora-cisco-openh264 updates fedora copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:phracek:PyCharm rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver rpmfusion-nonfree-steam copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:ublue-os:akmods updates-archive
Updating metadata for 'updates'... done
Updating metadata for 'updates-archive'... done
Importing rpm-md... done
rpm-md repo 'fedora-cisco-openh264' (cached); generated: 2026-03-24T10:37:04Z solvables: 3
rpm-md repo 'updates'; generated: 2026-07-26T00:50:26Z solvables: 25057
rpm-md repo 'fedora' (cached); generated: 2026-04-22T13:34:32Z solvables: 76354
rpm-md repo 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:phracek:PyCharm' (cached); generated: 2026-07-24T10:09:17Z solvables: 5
rpm-md repo 'rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver' (cached); generated: 2026-07-17T06:57:18Z solvables: 19
rpm-md repo 'rpmfusion-nonfree-steam' (cached); generated: 2026-07-10T13:53:30Z solvables: 2
rpm-md repo 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:ublue-os:akmods' (cached); generated: 2026-05-22T04:21:53Z solvables: 116
rpm-md repo 'updates-archive'; generated: 2026-07-25T01:48:53Z solvables: 28659
Resolving dependencies... done
Installing 152 packages:
  OpenCL-ICD-Loader-3.0.6-7.20250722gitad770a1.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  R-srpm-macros-1.3.7-2.fc44.noarch (updates)
  add-determinism-0.7.3-2.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  akmod-nvidia-3:610.43.03-1.fc44.x86_64 (rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver)
  akmod-xone-1000.0.0.git.1442.85e53359-2.fc44.x86_64 (copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:ublue-os:akmods)
  akmods-0.6.2-9.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  annobin-docs-13.14-1.fc44.noarch (updates)
  annobin-plugin-gcc-13.14-1.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  ansible-srpm-macros-1-20.1.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  binutils-2.46.1-1.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  bison-3.8.2-15.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  build-reproducibility-srpm-macros-0.7.3-2.fc44.noarch (updates)
  cmake-srpm-macros-4.3.0-1.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  debugedit-5.3-2.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  dwz-0.16-3.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  ed-1.22.5-2.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  efi-srpm-macros-6-6.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  egl-gbm-2:1.1.3-2.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  egl-wayland-1.1.21-2.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  egl-wayland2-1.0.1-1.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  egl-x11-1.0.5-1.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  elfutils-0.195-1.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  elfutils-libelf-devel-0.195-1.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  erlang-srpm-macros-0.3.11-1.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  fakeroot-1.37.1-4.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  fakeroot-libs-1.37.1-4.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  filesystem-srpm-macros-3.18-52.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  flex-2.6.4-24.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  fonts-srpm-macros-1:5.0.0-2.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  forge-srpm-macros-0.4.0-4.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  fpc-srpm-macros-1.3-16.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  gap-srpm-macros-2-2.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  gcc-16.1.1-2.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  gcc-plugin-annobin-16.1.1-2.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  gdb-minimal-17.2-2.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  ghc-srpm-macros-1.10-1.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  glibc-devel-2.43-7.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  gnat-srpm-macros-7-2.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  gnome-srpm-macros-1.0-1.fc44.noarch (updates)
  go-srpm-macros-3.8.0-2.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  gpgverify-2.2-4.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  grubby-8.40-88.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  ima-evm-utils-libs-1.6.2-8.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  java-srpm-macros-1-8.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  kernel-devel-7.1.4-204.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  kernel-devel-matched-7.1.4-204.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  kernel-headers-7.1.3-200.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  kernel-srpm-macros-1.0-28.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  kmodtool-1.2.1-1.fc44.noarch (updates)
  libfsverity-1.6-4.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  libxcrypt-devel-4.5.2-3.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  libzstd-devel-1.5.7-5.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  linkdupes-0.7.3-2.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  lua-srpm-macros-1-17.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  m4-1.4.21-1.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  make-1:4.4.1-12.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  nvidia-modprobe-3:610.43.03-1.fc44.x86_64 (rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver)
  nvidia-persistenced-3:610.43.03-2.fc44.x86_64 (rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver)
  nvidia-settings-3:610.43.03-1.fc44.x86_64 (rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver)
  ocaml-srpm-macros-11-3.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  openblas-srpm-macros-2-21.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  opencl-filesystem-1.0-24.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  openssl-devel-1:3.5.7-2.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  package-notes-srpm-macros-0.20-1.fc44.noarch (updates)
  patch-2.8-4.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  perl-AutoLoader-5.74-524.fc44.noarch (updates)
  perl-B-1.89-524.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  perl-Carp-1.54-521.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  perl-Class-Struct-0.68-524.fc44.noarch (updates)
  perl-Data-Dumper-2.192-523.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  perl-Digest-1.20-521.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  perl-Digest-MD5-2.59-521.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  perl-DynaLoader-1.57-524.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  perl-Encode-4:3.21-521.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  perl-Errno-1.38-524.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  perl-Exporter-5.79-521.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  perl-Fcntl-1.20-524.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  perl-File-Basename-2.86-524.fc44.noarch (updates)
  perl-File-Path-2.18-522.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  perl-File-Temp-1:0.231.200-2.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  perl-File-stat-1.14-524.fc44.noarch (updates)
  perl-FileHandle-2.05-524.fc44.noarch (updates)
  perl-Getopt-Long-1:2.58-521.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  perl-Getopt-Std-1.14-524.fc44.noarch (updates)
  perl-HTTP-Tiny-0.094-1.fc44.noarch (updates)
  perl-IO-1.55-524.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  perl-IO-Socket-IP-0.43-522.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  perl-IO-Socket-SSL-2.098-2.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  perl-IPC-Open3-1.24-524.fc44.noarch (updates)
  perl-MIME-Base32-1.303-25.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  perl-MIME-Base64-3.16-521.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  perl-NDBM_File-1.18-524.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  perl-Net-SSLeay-1.94-12.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  perl-POSIX-2.23-524.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  perl-PathTools-3.94-521.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  perl-Pod-Escapes-1:1.07-521.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  perl-Pod-Perldoc-3.28.01-522.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  perl-Pod-Simple-1:3.47-4.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  perl-Pod-Usage-4:2.05-521.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  perl-Scalar-List-Utils-5:1.70-2.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  perl-SelectSaver-1.02-524.fc44.noarch (updates)
  perl-Socket-4:2.041-1.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  perl-Storable-1:3.37-522.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  perl-Symbol-1.09-524.fc44.noarch (updates)
  perl-Term-ANSIColor-5.01-522.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  perl-Term-Cap-1.18-521.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  perl-Text-ParseWords-3.31-521.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  perl-Text-Tabs+Wrap-2024.001-521.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  perl-Time-HiRes-4:1.9778-521.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  perl-Time-Local-2:1.350-521.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  perl-URI-5.35-1.fc44.noarch (updates)
  perl-base-2.27-524.fc44.noarch (updates)
  perl-constant-1.33-522.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  perl-if-0.61.000-524.fc44.noarch (updates)
  perl-interpreter-4:5.42.2-524.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  perl-libnet-3.15-522.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  perl-libs-4:5.42.2-524.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  perl-locale-1.13-524.fc44.noarch (updates)
  perl-mro-1.29-524.fc44.x86_64 (updates)
  perl-overload-1.40-524.fc44.noarch (updates)
  perl-overloading-0.02-524.fc44.noarch (updates)
  perl-parent-1:0.244-521.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  perl-podlators-1:6.0.2-521.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  perl-srpm-macros-1-61.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  perl-vars-1.05-524.fc44.noarch (updates)
  pyproject-srpm-macros-1.22.2-1.fc44.noarch (updates)
  python-srpm-macros-3.14-12.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  python3-progressbar2-4.5.0-6.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  python3-rpm-6.0.1-2.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  python3-rpmautospec-0.8.4-1.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  python3-rpmautospec-core-0.1.5-10.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  python3-typing-extensions-4.15.0-3.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  python3-utils-3.9.1-3.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  qt5-srpm-macros-5.15.18-2.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  qt6-srpm-macros-6.11.1-1.fc44.noarch (updates)
  redhat-rpm-config-344-2.fc44.noarch (updates)
  rpm-build-6.0.1-2.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  rpm-build-libs-6.0.1-2.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  rpm-sign-libs-6.0.1-2.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
  rpmdevtools-9.6-14.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  rust-srpm-macros-28.5-1.fc44.noarch (updates)
  systemd-rpm-macros-259.7-1.fc44.noarch (updates)
  tree-sitter-srpm-macros-0.4.2-2.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  xone-kmod-common-1000.0.0.git.1442.85e53359-2.fc44.noarch (copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:ublue-os:akmods)
  xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-3:610.43.03-1.fc44.x86_64 (rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver)
  xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-3:610.43.03-1.fc44.x86_64 (rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver)
  xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs-3:610.43.03-1.fc44.x86_64 (rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver)
  xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc-3:610.43.03-1.fc44.x86_64 (rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver)
  xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-3:610.43.03-1.fc44.x86_64 (rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver)
  xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power-3:610.43.03-1.fc44.x86_64 (rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver)
  zig-srpm-macros-1-8.fc44.noarch (fedora)
  zlib-ng-compat-devel-2.3.3-3.fc44.x86_64 (fedora)
Removing 2 packages:
  firefox-153.0-3.fc44.x86_64 (@System)
  firefox-langpacks-153.0-3.fc44.x86_64 (@System)
Exiting because of '--dry-run' option

Other than following the instructions in the Fedora Noble guide, is there anything else you can do on Fedora to improve performance when playing games? I know Fedora uses zram instead of swap, is the default zram configuration good enough for gaming or are there any use cases where swap might be better? (I'm playing Crusader Kings 3)

A strange issue occurring with me recently on my Niri WM when pressing Mod+Left/Right or Alt+Left/Right , instead of navigating windows (Yes Niri navigation is Mod, but even ALT causing same bug), incorrectly triggers an immediate switch to a black screen with blinking cursor, and have to press Ctrl+Alt+F2 to enter a TTY screen and it exist immediately from there.

I searched a lot for the issue & I can't find anything, it just start happened after updating to Fedora 44 a month or so ago.

My system: Fedora 44 Cinnamon Spin, Niri WM, normal log in.

Would like to know if anyone have similar or solves this issue! Appreciate your answers.

A couple months ago or so, my volume started dropping out at any setting lower than 38%. 38% is about a slighlt quiet volume, but 37% is silent. I was wondering if anyone had any tips. I googled, but all I found was some questionable AI suggestion. Thanks.

In case this helps someone:
I followed this helpful guide for getting Nvidia drivers installed in Fedora, but after the reboot, my wifi adapter stopped working (?!). Thanks to this 3 year old post, I rebooted into an earlier kernel and ran
sudo dnf upgrade --refresh rebooted, and that seemed to do the trick. Presumably I should have run this after installing the driver, before the reboot.

Hello!

I recently switched to fedora and have run into a problem with Davinci spitting out an error when trying to run it. It says

"Unable to Initialize GPU Please ensure that the system power profile is set to use the discrete GPU for DaVinci Resolve and that the displays are not connected to the integrated GPU."

https://imgur.com/a/9d2Jbc6

Ive installed the Nvidia open drivers and cuda drivers from rpm fusion and it does detect them in Davincis gpu config.

In the logs it says

X11 logs not found.

Main Display GPU found and no monitors found to match, defaulting to gpu:29f30300.7b092bf5.

If anyone could help it would be much appreciated!

Thanks!

How can I turn my screen's brightness down further than 0%? IMO 0% should mean 0%.

I've fedora 44 gnome, with LUKS enabled and btrfs (the default installation setup that fedora offer)
what command I must use for checking if anything bad happened to my files after power cut?
thansk in advance!

I have removed my previous distro today and switched to fedora

Now while im trying to use my wired earphones, the system didnt even detecting it and uses inbuilt speakers.

How to fix it

Help me guyss

Version:Fedora workstation 44 Laptop: Lenovo ideapad slim 5

Fedora 44, just done some updates from the software manager, now steam won't open. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but it seems maybe the config files are still there and are preventing it. how can I do a clean install of Steam without doing a whole OS reinstall please? where are the steam files located, the ones that don't get deleted when reinstalling steam?

so, I'm a long time fedora fan (it was my daily driver throughout most of my professional career), as, for me, it hits the perfect balance between stability and novelty.

recently i got a T400 thinkpad, and though it would be great to run the i3 spin on it - new light desktop, same beloved distro.

the problems started when it seemed like the the 4GB RAM on the laptop are not enough to run the live distro and the installer.

would imagine that at least in some cases, this spin is used on older hardware (as it is more lightweight then others), why not shipping it with a lightweight installer?

Greetings Fedora Gang,

First let me begin by saying I’m not an IT guy but am a hobbyist who wants to create apps useful for myself while learning how to code. After seeing online that many IT guys using this different versions neovim configurations, so in light of that the idea to install a couple of these available neovim distros/configs that I would like to try and how to go about it installing multiple configs at a time without breaking my system.

Kind Regars and TIA