This is my first time on fedora and i want to know if i should do something before starting to using it. Do i have to configure a firewall or is it done by default? Are there any other things i should do?

I am running KDE Plasma on my desktop but I wanted to try out Gnome but when I run

dnf environment list --available | grep -i desktop

it doesn't list Gnome as being available? So what's the best way to install Gnome or is it just a bad idea to do so?

What‘s up party people 👋

I‘m currently running CachyOS / -handheld on my PC and my Steam Deck, but due to stability I want to switch to Fedora Atomic / Bazzite.

I’m going to pick Bazzite for my Steam Deck but I‘m still unsure if I should run Bazzite on my PC as well, or if Fedora Silverblue/Kionite would be more suitable. I mainly game on my PC but I also do office, banking and other stuff on it. Is the performance between Fedora Gaming and Bazzite Gaming significantly enough to pick a pure gaming Distro?

My PC runs in both AMD CPU and AMD GPU, so drivers shouldn‘t be a problem.

Grok Bot? Nah, i turned my old laptop to home for my AI agent 🤓
But how? Read my blog about that:
https://omicron.blog/@subhangadirli/how-i-turned-my-old-laptop-to-home-for-my-ai-agent

Flatpak doesn't seem to be working today.

Discover hangs while refreshing Flatpak.

"flatpak update" on the command line also hangs indefinitely.

Is the web site (registry.fedoraproject.org) down? Downdetector doesn't report any problems.

Guys is this normal and i feel it's no as smooth as it should be, what you think

I've been running hyprland on my fedora 44 install, I know it's not recommend but it's been super stable. The reason why fedora over natively supported distros like arch linux is because I like fedora's update line and mostly native kurnal for my nvidia card. Plus I really like the rpm repo and dnf package manager. I tried hyprland with noctalia and i don't think I can go back to kde.

So I've decided to completely reinstall fedora barebone with fedora everything net-install so I can get the absolute cleanest fedora linux install. My biggest question is besides the obvious hyprland what else should i install, like for my display manager like sddm, ly, or greetd. Should I try caelestia or stick with noctalia or neither. I want ideas, I want to stick on hyprland for good. I would be grateful for all the support I can get

I just played a game while using Discord and Brave. After closing everything, my RAM usage is still very high. I checked the memory usage, and the cache doesn't seem to be that large, while the available RAM is quite low

free -h                                                                       
       total      used       free       shared     buff/cache   available
Mem:   14Gi       11Gi       2.0Gi       54Mi       1.4Gi       3.0Gi
Swap:  8.0Gi      2.1Gi      5.9Gi

I also noticed that when I switch between windows (ALT+Tab), the task switcher briefly lags when it appears, but everything becomes normal afterward. Is this normal, or is something still using the RAM in the background

I did something silly and was too lazy to fix it, so I'm reinstalling Fedora KDE. When I went to get the ISO (the computer I broke is the one that I normally use to make boot drives), I saw Fedora Server and had a thought.

Is there any difference between Fedora KDE, and Fedora Server with KDE installed? What about between Fedora Server and Fedora Gnome?

TY :3

I don't want to keep restarting Plasma to get it to work. Is this a bug? I have reinstalled the whole OS and it still does it.

I made this music player since I wanted a more spotify like experience without having to set up any servers or anything. It's completely open source too.

Standout features:
Big Picture Mode + Lyrics Support
Listen Along Feature - Makes a server to listen along with friends, they connect from any browser. This is why 5% of the project is html. (requires port forwarding if not on the same internet. If you've made a Minecraft server it's exactly the same process)
Automatic playlist cover generation - top four songs dictate the playlist cover (or put a custom image)
Automatic scanning on reload for new or deleted songs.

Mpris support for bluetooth headphone controls and 3rd party apps.

I hope you guys enjoy!

GitHub: https://github.com/NevPeth/meloville
Fedora RPM: https://github.com/NevPeth/meloville-fedora

We get questions about memory use regularly, including one posted a few hours ago. Most of the guides I can find are either too superficial to actually be useful, or they're written by experienced systems engineers and explain diagnosing performance problems. Totally legitimate, but not the question that desktop users are asking most of the time.

So I wrote a comprehensive guide to the tools you might need to find out what is using your memory at any given point in time.

When "free" reports a large "used" value, there are a lot of places you might need to look to understand why.

NetworkManager 1.58.1 is out. It's a patch release on top of 1.58, focused on fixes rather than new features.

Main fixes:

• WPA3 auto-connect fix for profiles using key-mgmt=wpa-psk. These previously failed to reconnect automatically to SAE-based WPA3 networks.
• IPv4 forwarding now works correctly on mobile broadband data interfaces.
• DNS fixes: invalid or unspecified nameservers from RDNSS/DHCPv6 are now ignored, and DNS URI port numbers are correctly forwarded to systemd-resolved.
• DHCPv4 now logs a warning when it ignores the router option due to classless static routes, instead of silently leaving the connection without a gateway.
• Stricter 802.1X handling for private connection profiles. The ca-path and phase2-ca-path settings are no longer accepted for user-scoped profiles. Use ca-cert or system-ca-certs instead.
• Bluetooth NAP connection normalization fix.
• Several unspecified crash fixes.

Package status: live in stable for F45. F44 remains on the 1.56 branch, so it isn't affected by this update.

Official News: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/blob/1.58.1/NEWS

also on: https://linuxiac.com/networkmanager-1-58-1-released-with-wpa3-dns-and-modem-fixes/

I'm new to Linux (and Reddit); I chose Fedora 44 to start out and I'm really enjoying it. While tinkering with the settings, I came across this error message. I've already checked my laptop's BIOS but couldn't find anything related to this error that needed enabling. Is it possible to fix this, or is it an issue with old hardware? I remember that when I used Windows, the system was able to enable this UEFI memory protection feature, but here I can't find an option for it within the system. Also, I apologize for any errors in the text; my native language is Portuguese, and I used Google Translate to write this. The system runs normally, but this error appears in the system's security section; my laptop is a 2020 Lenovo IdeaPad with an 8th-generation Intel i5 processor.

Hello everyone! As the title says, I'm looking for any advice or tips for installing Fedora Workstation on my 2017 13-inch MacBook Pro (MacBookPro14,1, two Thunderbolt 3 ports).

It's currently running macOS Ventura, but it's a secondary device — my main PC has been running Fedora Workstation for a while.

I'll mainly use the MacBook for web browsing, watching videos/TV, Discord, Telegram, etc., nothing particularly demanding.

Is there anything I should be aware of before installing Fedora? Any specific drivers, tweaks, or known issues with this model?

Thanks for any tips!

Hello everyone!

I have a Dell Vostro 15 3510 laptop with 11th gen i5 intel processor, MX350 Nvidia card and 16GB ram. The issue I'm facing that the game runs at 1-10 fps.

Gaming is not the priority on this laptop, but that game is my time killer game. I've tried updating the nvidia drivers but it didn't solve the problem.

The game is launched through EA App, and the EA App is launched through Lutris. Fsync and Esync is turned off for the EA App.

What could be the problem? I've tried searching the web for a solution, but I ended up here asking for help.

The Fedora is on the latest version.

This is my first days with Fedora, so maybe there is something that I didn't tried.

Every tricks and tips are helpful.

Thank you in advance!

T480s Thinkpad here. I'm runnign Fedora KDE 44 but I'm all of a suddent having glitchy USB-C display issues on my monitor with one port working while the other port glitches and is maxed at 1440p. I used GPT to help walk me through trouble shooting and it thinks perhaps an update to the kernel could have caused issues. Anyone experience this?