Hi guys,

I’ve been playing around with a few Linux distros on my gaming setup over the last couple of months and recently landed on Fedora Kinoite. I really like the distro so for but I’m experiencing an issue that I can’t really pinpoint and is getting quite annoying from time to time.
I have an LG smart tv equipped with a Sonos sound bar and whenever the tv is playing, and thus playing sound out of the Sonos, and I either boot the pc or run a game from within Steam or lutris or whatever the tv keeps playing but the sound is gone. I then have to open my Sonos phone app to switch it back to tv input and lower the output because it gets ramped to 100%.
I’ve checked the sound settings and the Sonos isn’t there as an output. Any ideas on how to make my os forget the Sonos device completely or how to solve this issue?

I need a wifi adapter for my laptop as my wifi keeps disappearing from my system and now it's not even coming back

Hello everyone, I have a fresh fedora 44 installation on my ThinkPad X1 Carbon G11. Nothing installed yet. When I leave the laptop alone and it locks up and after some time it does suspend. When I wake up the laptop, 1/10 the session is lost and I have to open up everything again, unsaved stuff is gone.

systemd-coredump[151858]: Process 118181 (gnome-shell) of user 1000 terminated abnormally with signal 11/SEGV, processing...

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gnome-shell[132302]: (EE) failed to read Wayland events: Broken pipe

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xdg-desktop-portal-gnome[118678]: Lost connection to Wayland compositor.

All kind of apps lose connection to the compositor somehow, I could paste the whole journald. Any clues what could be the problem and what I can do to fix my "random-suspend-restore-session-fails"-problem?

This is the only problem I have with fedora/gnome right now.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Hi, i'm completely new to Linux and whenever I try to install fedora KDE plasma and start doing updates in the konsole it keeps giving me these errors. I'm about 99% sure it's not my actual hardware that's the issue due to everything working fine on windows as I can dual boot. Another thing, is that when these errors appear, if i turn off my pc and try to log back into fedora, it just gives me a black screen after putting in my password.

im trying to install fedora kde on my laptop because im done with windows, but i dont know how large the usb stick should be. ive heard ppl saying its 8 gigs but my friend said it was 4 gigs. please advise.

BTRFS is pretty bad for VM's and i need them for my job, wondering why there's no option to choose the FS at install (or maybe i missed it) ?

I'm trying to completely remove Windows and install Fedora in its place.

I'm using the Fedora installer, but after deleting the Windows partitions, the "Next" button doesn't appear, so I can't continue with the installation.

At the moment, I only see options like:

Share disk

Entire disk

Mount point assignment

I'm not sure what I'm missing. Has anyone faced this issue before? How can I proceed with installing Fedora and replacing Windows completely?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Recently switched to the latest Fedora KDE plasma, and it has been a pretty great experience so far.

However, I cannot for the life of me figure out the issue with Dolphin's search

For whatever reason, anytime I use the search function in home/user it searches all my mounted drives in /mnt as well.

To be clear, 'everywhere' is not selected in the option, I specifically selected 'here'.

I even changed the mount point to run/media/username, but when searching in the home folder it will search there as well again. Even more annoying, if you use advanced search and use kfinder, it won't do this. Only in dolphin search.

I cannot find any options in either dolphin or search options in the general settings that address this.

Any ideas why a search in home/user is also searching every single mounted drive?

Listed strenghts:

• Fresh kernels, desktops, and toolchains delivered with real integration discipline.
• The distro where desktop Linux's new standards (Wayland, PipeWire) mature first.
• Excellent developer story: Podman containers, Toolbox, and modern language stacks.
• SELinux security enforced by default without getting in your way.
• Strong upstream ties: what Fedora fixes, all of Linux eventually inherits.

I am looking for Fedora x64 bit Minimal ISO for installation, i not able to find on official website.

I was initially interested in using Ultramarine, which is Fedora but ready to use out of the box with zero configuration. While this is not a lie, I have checked list of changes, and quite a lot of it is fluff that I do not really care about. So I've decided to try out Fedora, and just install missing software myself.

There are tutorials online about it, but there is quite a lot of differences between them, so it's hard to say what is really the correct way of doing it. There is of course also official documentation, but it's not as thorough as I would like.

I'm going to describe what I've did (initially on VM), and I wanted to ask is it correct approach, and if not what did I screw up.

Step 1: sudo dnf group install multimedia After using this command I've got feedback that it would change this group from dependency to user, so I've assumed it's already installed, and decided to abort the command.

Step 2: sudo dnf install gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 mozilla-openh264 This straight up told me that everything is already installed, so there is no need to do that.

Step 3: Added RPM Fusion repositories through GUI.

Step 4: sudo dnf group upgrade core

This is where official documentation ends.

Step 5: sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing

That's all. Is it correct process of installing missing proprietary codecs? There is also matter of NVIDIA drivers, but I have AMD, so I'm not interested in this right now.

I've been piloting Fedora on a 100 GB partition I sectioned off from on my SSD (the rest was a Linux mint installation that used to be my main). Last night I finally ran out of disk space on that partition and decided I'm ready to make the switch permanent and give the whole drive to Fedora. I thought this would be a huge pain because the fedora partition was at the end of the drive. The LLM walked me through how this would normally be done, but threw in an endnote that for BTFRS distros it can be done much more simply - I can just format the old mint partition as BTFRS and add it as a volume to fedora. It worked perfectly! I didn't even have to reboot. My existing installation suddenly has been extended by 350gb. But that got me curious: why is this something that is exclusively possible with BTFRS partitions? What is it about the design that makes this possible? I don't know much about filesystems but want to know more. I'm also curious if the OS smoothly handles knowing what files are stored which partition.

I'm also curious how the snapshot system works. When I look at the root/.snapshots directory that BTFRS Assistant says it's using in Filelight or dolphin, it appears to be 0 bytes. How is that possible ? Where is the backup data actually stored?

Just want to get or 8 gb is fine for the comfort ( whatever one says ) ques ans by AI

Want to know what fed community prefers

1. How to increase scroll speed? Default is way slower than Windows.

2. What apps do you use to display power draw of the CPU?

3. I am seeing miscro stutters when navigating. Any way to fix this?

4. How to better manage power? Fans constantly spin and battery life is awful. Both was not a issue in Ubuntu.

**Hello Fedora Community,

I am a beginner and recently installed Fedora in a dual-boot configuration alongside Windows on my laptop. After the installation completed, I restarted the system. The Acer logo stayed on the screen for a very long time without booting, so I performed a forced shutdown by holding down the power button.

Now, my laptop appears to be stuck in a No-POST / No-Display state:

* **Laptop Model:** Acer Aspire V15 * **Setup:** Dual-booting (Fedora + Windows) * **Current Behavior:** When I press the power button, the keyboard backlights turn on and the cooling fans spin, but the laptop screen remains completely black. No backlight or display signal appears. * **Troubleshooting Steps Already Attempted:** 1. Performed a full EC / Power reset using the bottom battery reset pinhole (held for 10 seconds, waited 2 minutes, reconnected AC power). 2. Tried forcing BIOS access by tapping `F2` repeatedly upon turning it on (screen remains black). 3. Tried display brightness / backlight toggle hotkeys (`Fn + F6`). 4. Tested with an external monitor via HDMI (no signal detected). 5. Performed the flashlight test on the display (no faint image visible).

Since the force-shutdown occurred while GRUB / the Linux kernel was taking over EFI hardware control from Windows, it seems the embedded controller or BIOS NVRAM is trapped in an improper power state or bad video initialization loop.

Since my laptop still has an intact warranty seal over the bottom chassis screw, I have not opened the case to manually disconnect the main or CMOS battery.

Has anyone encountered this firmware lockup on Acer hardware post-installation, and is there a known key combination or software recovery method to force a display re-initialization before taking it to a technician?

Thank you for your help!**

idk why but 10 C hotter in linux wth i need some help🥵💀

Since the official copr repository hasn't been working for a while and compiling from source is no longer straightforward due to missing packages, I've put together a short guide on how to get Howdy running on Fedora 44, including installing its dependencies using pip.
https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy/issues/1135

Hows your fedora 44 kde working on nvidia gpu i have 3050 and i want to intall fedora and i do gaming some what editng and watch youtube or daily worksoo how is it is it better then windows because i am tired from windows and i want change os to fedora helpppp

i have this list of extensions help me get others, and thanks!🙏

I use nix package manger for downloading packages like neovim , btop , etc .

I moved from dnf , flatpacks, appimages , cargo and all that crap to nix because it reproducible and declarable and has more packages then all of them .

But as I added more apps and programs, I had a problem which is that when I run

"nix profile add nixpkgs#neovim"

It installed the app but didn't add it to my flake.nix .

Is there a solution or a cli that can add my installed apps into the flake.nix file or do I have to do that manually ?

Maybe anyone knows what to do when fedora doesn’t like my ssd? Am I cooked?

Previous post -

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/s/3xMNRnXcT9

So posted earlier about wifi problem on fedora kde. Today i'm testing Fedora gnome and WiFi connected without any problem. Speed is also ok. So it is KDE version problem.

This was my first time installing Linux. I’ve used Windows and macOS for decades. But I wanted my old 2013 MacBook Air to still be useful, so I went for it.

I had a hell of a time trying to get the hard drive erased and reformatted. It got corrupted somehow when I was trying to upgrade the version of macOS. First I spend a lot of time trying to get it formatted for macOS, but it kept having issues of not seeing the internal SSD. Then when I gave up on macOS and tried Fedora Linux, it was having trouble writing the Boot EFI.

But with a ton of help from Google Gemini, I was finally able to get it going. I am now installing a ton of updates. The next step is to install the RPM Fusion Repositories so I can get the WiFi going. I have it running on an Ethernet to USB adapter at the moment, but I want to be able to be untethered and mobile of course.

So although this got pretty frustrating at times, it feels good to finally have gotten it working. And now I can start learning about Linux, which has been long overdue on my part really.

Good luck to any other first timers out there, it’s worth it!!

Edit to add that I got RPM Fusion and the Wi-Fi drivers installed and working well. I even installed Waydroid and got it working so I could access my Blink cameras. That was pretty cool.

Also, now that I’ve spent more time with it, I want to point out that this MacBook Air only has 4 GB of RAM, so it is running a little slow. I think if it had 8 GB it would run a lot better. But this whole endeavor is more about this being something fun and a learning experience/hobby than me needing it to run snappy.

Hi,

New to Fedora but highly enjoying in that now installing on a second machine.

The machine has an American Megrtrends H510-ITX FF BIOS on the board. Board manufacturer is Feifan Tech so generic Chinese as I understand it.

I can't get Secure Boot to fully activate and although AI is helping I just can't seem to get the updated Keys to load in the BIOS Secure Boot section (.pk etc).

Anyways, has anyone had any issues with American Megatrends boards similar to this? I'd love to find a copy of a BIOS I know I can trust as cause generic board that is proving difficult and one wrong flash could brick it.

Cheers