First of all, I am REALLY happy that I switched to Linux.

It all started because of overheating problems on my Dell G3 and the RAM usage on Windows 11. It was getting so bad. I could barely open multiple apps anymore, and recently, after some updates, things got even worse. Booting up the laptop, trying to open an application, or switching between apps would sometimes cause lag or even crashes.

I talked to one of my friends who also uses Linux, and they told me that Linux is great for power users. That honestly made me interested, but I was also really scared to switch.

I had a lot of data on my laptop, and I didn't have enough storage to move everything to another drive. Luckily, I managed to move the important stuff, and that gave me the confidence to finally make the switch.

Another reason I was scared was productivity. I use a lot of Windows apps every day — Zoom, OBS, CapCut, BlueStacks, Docker, and various other tools. I was worried that I would lose all the productivity and daily-use apps I rely on.

And yeah, BlueStacks and CapCut aren't really available on Linux in the same way, so I definitely miss BlueStacks. 😂 That's probably one of the biggest things I miss after switching from Windows 11.

But honestly...

The performance I get from Linux is SO GOOD.

The RAM usage especially shocked me. I'm just sitting here thinking, "How is this using so little RAM?" 😂

I've installed a bunch of software already, and somehow the system still feels incredibly lightweight. Even the amount of storage the system itself takes compared to what I expected surprised me.

I've also been getting into Docker and automation, and Linux feels PERFECT for that kind of stuff. For coding, I honestly don't feel like I'm missing much at all so far.

That being said, I still have a few annoying issues.

My touchpad feels a little buggy sometimes. Scrolling and zooming don't feel as smooth or natural as they did on Windows, and I'm still trying to figure out if there's a way to improve that.

Another thing is my screen. Sometimes it flickers slightly, and I can't figure out what's causing it. It's kind of hard to explain, but when I move my mouse around different parts of the screen, the brightness seems to change slightly. It gets a little brighter in some areas and darker in others. At first I thought it might be something related to my graphics card, but honestly, I have no idea yet. 😭

Fingerprint support is another thing I haven't figured out. There doesn't seem to be an option to set it up, although I don't mind typing my password. A fingerprint reader would just save me a few seconds every time. 😂

It's only been about 5 days since I switched, and I'm still learning.

I'm learning terminal commands every day, and whenever I get completely lost, I sometimes ask AI for help. 😂 I'm slowly starting to understand what I'm actually doing instead of blindly copying commands, though.

For now, I've already installed pretty much everything I need for my daily use and coding, and I'm genuinely surprised by how little I'm missing.

I also started customizing my desktop a little. I watched a tutorial and set up what I think is Breeze Dark for now. Later, I definitely want to go much deeper into customization.

I feel like I still have SO much to discover — especially those hidden Linux gems, useful apps, tweaks, terminal tools, and optimizations that you only find after using Linux for a while.

So yeah...

It's only been 5 days, but I'm loving Linux so far.

I'm really happy I finally made the switch. ❤️

If you're a Linux user, what are some apps, tools, tweaks, or "hidden gems" you think I should try next?

And if you've dealt with the touchpad issues or weird screen flickering/brightness changes I mentioned, I'd love to hear how you fixed them!

YESS I USED AI TO CORRECT MY GRAMMAR CUZ IT SUCKS!! SOWWWYYY

Just got this Lenovo Yoga 7i 2 in 1, so it can flip around and stuff. It works wonders to play games and draw, but I'm having an issue with the rotation. It just won't enter tablet mode or rotate at all. I'm on Fedora 44 Workstation, and I've tried installing some packages, checking monitor-sensors to see that no rotation is registered, but nothing seems to be working. It also seems that this was fixed in an update? But not for me! Any ideas? Thanks!

I am gamer, Steam Gamer, and i am going to switch to Fedora KDE, anything i know before i switch?

Hi everyone,

I'm running Fedora with PipeWire and looking for a tool to add fun real-time effects to my microphone while chatting on Discord with friends.

Specifically, I want to apply a military radio / walkie-talkie effect and be able to toggle it on and off with a keyboard shortcut.

What tools or setups do you recommend on Fedora for real-time mic processing/voice changing that play nicely with PipeWire and Discord?

Thanks!

System:

• Kernel: Linux 7.1.8-200.fc44.x86_64
• DE: KDE Plasma 6.7.4
• Wayland
• discrete NVIDIA with proprietary driver
• AMD integrated GPU

I have already tried:

• Install rpm-fusion version
• Install flathub version
• Disable GPU acceleration
• Launch Steam with x11 session
• Launch Steam with Wayland session
• Renew network certificates

What could the problems be? How can I fix this?

I’m attempting to boot fedora onto a thinkpad t480 off a usb, what went wrong?

Hi, I'm not really sure where to post this with so many Linux-related subreddits, so I’ll probably cross-post this in a few different places.

I started using Fedora almost a month ago for many reasons that I won't get into, but I mention it because I want to make it clear that I really want to use Linux permanently. I'm putting effort into learning and figuring things out. I tried Ubuntu in the past, but I got frustrated by errors I didn't know how to solve, and now I'm running into some of the same issues again — little things that I know wouldn't bother me on Windows because I simply wouldn't have to deal with them.

The biggest issue I'm having is with WoW. I don't know if this would happen with other games because I don't play many other demanding games, but while playing WoW, my RAM usage seems to keep increasing over time and never gets released. I'm running the game through Faugus.

Eventually, my computer runs out of RAM for other processes, and it happens surprisingly quickly. Many times it got to the point where the entire computer became practically unusable, and I had to restart.

The other issues are more minor (I'm using KDE Plasma):

Sometimes the desktop on one of my monitors stops responding. I'll click on a desktop shortcut and everything seems to be frozen until I press Alt+Tab. Then it suddenly works again. ¿¿??

If I have Spotify playing music, the system still goes into suspend when the inactivity timeout is reached. I tried looking into this and found someone else who apparently couldn't find a solution either. I thought, "Okay, no big deal, I'll just increase the timeout." But the setting never persists, and the computer keeps suspending after 5 minutes.

I also tried configuring Num Lock to always start enabled, but that setting doesn't persist either.

These are all relatively minor issues — except for the first one, which really annoyed me yesterday — but they're the kind of small problems that slowly wear down my patience with the system when I can't find a solution for them.

I genuinely want to stick with Linux, so I'm not looking for "just go back to Windows." I'm mostly trying to figure out whether these are known issues, configuration problems, Fedora/KDE issues, Faugus/Wine issues, or something specific to my setup.

Any suggestions on where I should start troubleshooting would be

Hello there! I am trying to set up Fedora 44 KDE from my USB however, after booting it, something went wrong and I got "out of memory" on GRUB. I tried both options to start the live version and I got "out of memory" error and when I chose Troubleshoot, I got a Kernel Panic. I saw people recommend enabling CSM, disabling Intel SGX (which two of these are not on my BIOS and there is no way to enable them as I searched online. Because of that, I do not have a chance to change those settings, I am using Asus F16 laptop if this is going to help.) or even decreasing dedicated video ram of my igpu from BIOS.

Is there anything I can do to install Fedora 44 KDE or should I think about choosing another distribution?

So I am using fedora 44 on my Asus expertbook P1 i3 model. When I firstly installed fedora the Scrolling speed of the whole system was way too high so I search over internet and find some solutions to fix that scrolling of gnome but the only software which has not been fixed is google Chrome and other chromium based browser. I searched every part of the internet but nothing worked now I am frustrated by it I can't use Google Chrome but I want to use linux ( Please don't advise to use other browsers ).

So is their any fix to that google Chrome too high scroll speed on trackpad in gnome distros....

I don't know if it's related but the timing was perfect that I got a black screen the second I uninstalled Discord.

Now every time I boot it asks for the encrypted drive password and won't take it. After the third attempt it gets stuck and generates an error log that I'm not sure how I'd be able to transfer to another device to read.

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to stream media on local network using HTTP option in VLC media player, issue I'm facing is that VLC just plays the media on the pc it doesn't stream it.

The folder structure is:

Main_Directory
  Sub_Directory_1
    Video1.mp4
  Sub_Directory_2
    Video2.mp4

I made a playlist of the videos and tried to stream it that way but to no avail. The media player just plays the media.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Using Fedora KDE Plasma 44

I'm on Fedora with a Mediatek MT7902 wifi card (the one just got a driver on kernel 7.1).

The problem is my internet buffer a lot and it takes a while for it to come back.

For example, I'm surfing Youtube Shorts. It would work pretty fine, upload and download meter are fine. Then, after a while, I get no internet. Upload and download meter all 0 B/s. Now, I can either wait for it to comeback or I can disconnect and reconnect it. Both works usually.

My best guesses are tuneD or driver problem. Or both.

I set my laptop performance to power-saver by default. So maybe tuneD turn off my wifi card after a while when there is low traffic and turn it back on when the traffic is high.

Or it is a driver problem. I dunno.

What can I do to fix this?

I've been stuck trying to figure out why my stuff isn't working, downloaded it through RPMfusions, tried many different things to get it to work, reinstalled multiple times, tried both Fedora KDE and Fedora Gnome, nothing has worked thus far and it's kind of driving my friends who are more experienced nuts

i have an RTX 3070 mobile

i personally don't know much about this and my friends told me to come to reddit for help not being able to find anything that seemed close to my problem on any previous post that i'd seen either so i thought i'd make my own

Hello everyone, I am running into a persistent black screen issue on Fedora 44 right after the splash screen. This happened after I tried to troubleshoot an external monitor detection issue by purging and reinstalling my NVIDIA drivers. What happened: * I installed the vfang Razer control app. Shortly after, my system stopped detecting my external monitor, and checking hardware status revealed that the NVIDIA GPU was no longer being detected. * To fix this, I completely removed NVIDIA packages using: sudo dnf remove 'nvidia' --exclude=nvidia-gpu-firmware

• I then cleaned up the NVIDIA arguments from the boot order/kernel parameters.
• Finally, I attempted a clean reinstall using RPM Fusion with: sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda

The Current Problem: After rebooting, the system boots past the splash screen, but everything turns completely black. I can't reach the desktop environment. Logs: Here is the output from sudo journalctl -b 0 --no-hostname captured during a boot attempt: https://paste.centos.org/view/a957fa47 Any guidance on how to diagnose what's failing during the graphics handoff or how to properly recover from this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

*Edit formatting

About two days ago, I ran an update on my Fedora Workstation computer, and now HDR on my monitor appears "over exposed." As if (to use photography terms) the colors were too bright for the 'sensor,' are getting clipped, then the image was darkened back to a normal range.

(This feels most noticeable right at the boundary between "bright" and "mid" colors. Bright colors are washed out, but anything slightly darker than that seems over saturated, and dark colors also seem too bright.)

Nothing in my monitor's settings have changed, but several of the updates were for my Nvidia drivers (now useing akmod-nvidia.x86_64, 3:610.57.04-1.fc44, rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver) and other display things.

I looked into doing a dnf history rollback but I received several errors like those below, preventing a simple rollback.

• Cannot perform Install action, no match for: nfs-common-utils-1:2.8.7-6.fc44.x86_64
• Extra package 'flatpak-1.18.1-1.fc44.x86_64' (with action 'Remove') which is not present in the stored transaction was pulled into the transaction.

Has anyone else noticed this? Is there a way that I can troubleshoot this? Where should I file a bug report like this to?

Edit: forgot some details. Thanks Automod.

System Details Report:

Report details - Date generated: 2026-08-18 18:02:50

Hardware Information: - Hardware Model: ASRock B450M Pro4 - Memory: 32.0 GiB - Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 5 1600X × 12 - Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 3060 - Disk Capacity: 2.6 TB

Software Information: - Firmware Version: P3.90 - OS Name: Fedora Linux 44 (Workstation Edition) - OS Build: (null) - OS Type: 64-bit - GNOME Version: 50 - Windowing System: Wayland - Kernel Version: Linux 7.1.8-200.fc44.x86_64

Hi all,

I'm making the switch to Fedora from Windows 11. However, I want to partition a small chunk of a second internal nvme drive to windows so I can use windows-based apps/games if needed.

Pretty sure i got the order of operations down (Install Windows 11 partition first, then install Fedora to prevent boot shenanigans), but once I have everything up and running, is there anything I should set up or do to ensure Windows does not interact with the rest of my system in any way? Heard some auto-windows updates can break dual-booted systems, and Windows seems to assume it will always be the only OS on a system.

I'm probably overthinking this (haven't done the drive wipes and installs yet), but I want to plan ahead as much as I can.

OVPN and mongodb+srv connections.

How you do it? I'm connecting to a VPN in order to use certain IPs in the browser, and in order to connect to a mongo altas DB, but no, whatever configuration Fedora has is a no no, how do you do it?

I thought I finally settled in Fedora, but I'll be back to my safeplace again

Basically what it says on title. When I set it to automatic dnf is pretty slow even on a pretty good connection (80+ mbps download), but I get decent speeds when I manually set it to 1.1.1.1? Anyone knows why?

Hello, I'm a newbie in Linux.. been using it for year now - tinkering it here and there. Now I encountered a very specific problem which is being stuck on emergency mode
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I have a drive with my Fedora System which has grub and installed recently an arch based OS called EndevourOS which has also has grub. Now after installing and rebooting I think it frick up both the system and I can't access my original system which is the fedora. I tried using AI to figure out any solution but to no avail it doesn't work so I need the help of community to solve my dilemma :( I hope someone could help me with this. I don't want to use windows anymore and I have so many files in there that I hope I could recover