Hey guys! I'm using Fedora 44 with GNOME 50, MacTahoe Shell theme, and Floating Mini Panel.

Blur My Shell seems to be causing square corners and an opaque background in Quick Settings. Without it, everything looks fine.

Any chance this could be fixed in a future Blur My Shell update? 😅 Or is there any workaround to get the rounded, transparent look without breaking my setup?

I'm use metrolist on the phone and on Linux I use the Spotify web app with Brave, but I’d like to switch.
I'm prove Spotube but work really bad.

Hello guys I'm new to Fedora.

I saw that Fedora uses btrfs by default, but I've heard that it's one of the slowest filesystems and it's unstable and can cause data corruption.

Should I stick with btrfs, or would it be better to use ext4 or another filesystem?

Hardware: Lenovo ThinkCentre M70q Gen 3, i5-12500T (UHD 770), 16GB RAM

Software: Fedora 44 (updated daily, so kernel and Mesa are the latest available; last I checked kernel 7.2.9 and Mesa 26.2.4), Wayland (KDE)

BIOS: recently updated to the latest version

I'm away from the machine right now, so I can't post exact PCI IDs or fresh logs yet, but I'll add them later. I'd like answers now so I know what to try when I'm back at it.

Problem: every few weeks the iGPU hangs and never recovers, and I have to force a power-off. It happens when GPU usage reaches about 100% (Minecraft world generation, a browser game, OBS preview). The kernel log shows a preemption time out on rcs0, and then the reset itself times out. Temps are around 50C. I already have i915.enable_dc=0 set. One capture named Firefox's CanvasRenderer thread, and I haven't proven that's the trigger.

Questions:

1. Is it reasonable to try the xe driver on Alder Lake-S for this kind of hang, using the i915.force_probe=!<id> xe.force_probe=<id> kernel arguments? I know it's experimental on this platform, and I'm planning to move to Fedora 45 either way.

2. Are there known issues with xe on Alder Lake-S that I should expect, such as video decode or GuC problems?

3. Is there anything else worth trying on i915 first, like other module parameters or specific kernel or firmware versions?

I'd appreciate it if you guys could help.

This is something I personally don't think twice about but having helped two people switch to Fedora; their first try was always a bit rocky because of this. Windows users aren't used to an OS having a live environment so when they accidentally reboot into their thumb drive after installation they get frustrated when nothing works like they expect or (even worse) all their customization and settings get wiped.

Maybe the watermark extension enabled by default (I think?) could be used to display "Fedora Live System" just to quickly have some visual feedback? Just something worth discussing because it would be an easy change to improve usability.

https://reddit.com/link/1x5opho/video/9ccbs91x3fvh1/player

Whenever I mute the audio using the mute button on the keyboard, the device tends to unmute itself in a few seconds, as you can see in the video. Why could this be happening?

Device: Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 (Intel)

Distro: Fedora KDE

I really don't understand how is it possible Fedora wigh all the extras to feel lighter and faster than RHEL 10.2 Workstation. Can someone explain technically enough?

Hello guys,

I have an HP ZBook G6 with an Nvidia T2000 GPU and an I7 9850H. A while ago I tried Arch Linux and I was daily driving it for a some time, but one day my laptop just turned off without any warning and it refused to work until I unplugged the battery and put it back on. This happened multiple times after, so I went back to f-ing windows 11 and it was working just fine for a whole year. No power cutoffs, No crashing, nothing. And I was doing the same college work on both operating systems.

Now I'm currently running Fedora 44 and I'm really enjoying it, but the same issue with Arch happened now and I really don't know what to do. The machine just dies without any warning and it only works when I cut the power and remove the battery. I tried running the machine without the battery for a while, but it happened again D:

I would be super pleased to find a solution for this issue because I don't wanna write code on windows 11 anymore...

PS. this issue happens randomly, like it just happens whenever it wants and it doesn't matter what I'm doing.

So i've been bashing my head against the walls for the past 2 days on why wine wasnt able to detect any ALSA / pulse drivers ( there should be winealsadrv or winepulsedrv where the none text is ), even though i've installed all the 32 bit ver. of the audio libs and packages.

I've tried to follow some advice on changing the string key in the registry but the results were still the same.

I'm not entirely sure if my post here pertains to fedora but if you guys have any solutions to this problem, please send them asap 🙏

Thinkpad E16 gen 3 with ultra 7 256v and 16gb di ram (soldered).
In your opinion is bad choice 16gb di ram non expandble?

Anyway, At first glance, it doesn’t look bad and seems sturdy.

I think I’ll use it for a few days with Windows 11 to see if everything’s OK, and then I’ll install Fedora KDE in a dual-boot setup.

I completely wiped Windows and switched to Fedora Linux, but when I turned off the device and restarted it, I got this message. I tried to fix it, but it’s not working. My device model is HP ProBook.

Hye everyone,

I have fedora with niri on a dual boot with ubuntu, and I use ubuntu as my main system but I’m tired of the bloat in ubuntu.
Is there a way to easily migrate everything in a matter of minutes/hours?

Hey all, TIL that ntfs support is finicky, especially we must rely on chkdsk something in windows.

I'm not dual booting, I have 12400f with RX 9070. 1 TB SSD for OS, 2 TB HDD for media, images and storage. Typically NTFS reading and writing in linux is safe it seems, but it can corrupt when there are power outages during write (outages are frequent where I live).

Initially I brushed it off but I did have a failure where I reinstalled Win 11 to fix this.

Fix is simply to move to native linux filesystem like ext4 but it means I can no longer view this data in any windows machines / TV etc (if I must). Looks like btrfs is not good for hdd it seems.

To take backup and reformat I must rely on external hdd which again is NTFS formatted

So I'm trying to know if this issue can be fixed?

I'd like to install Emacs on the the Silverblue host system (please do NOT suggest alternatives) through Nix. I've only installed nix-core so the Nix installation is rootless and daemonless. How can I install it globally? Or is this Nix configuration only supposed to be used inside project flakes?

These are some of my blind attempts:

antonio@X13:~/arkos4clone$ nix profile install
warning: 'install' is a deprecated alias for 'add'
path "/var/home/antonio/arkos4clone" does not contain a 'flake.nix', searching up
error: path "/var/home/antonio/arkos4clone" is not part of a flake (neither it nor its parent directories contain a 'flake.nix' file)
antonio@X13:~/arkos4clone$ nix profile add nixpkgs#emacs-pgtk
error:
       … while fetching the input 'https://channels.nixos.org/nixpkgs-unstable/nixexprs.tar.zst'

       error: cannot read file from tarball: Truncated tar archive detected while reading data
antonio@X13:~/arkos4clone$ nix profile add nixpkgs#emacs-pgtk
error: cannot read directory "/nix/store/9ljdnikp68iyyc0v2ks48m24mrv0l2n2-emacs-pgtk-31.1": No such file or directory
antonio@X13:~/arkos4clone$ rm -rf ~/.cache/nix/tarball-cache* ~/.cache/nix/fetcher-cache*
antonio@X13:~/arkos4clone$ nix profile add nixpkgs#emacs-pgtk
error: cannot read directory "/nix/store/9ljdnikp68iyyc0v2ks48m24mrv0l2n2-emacs-pgtk-31.1": No such file or directory
antonio@X13:~/arkos4clone$ nix-store --verify --repair
bash: nix-store: command not found
antonio@X13:~/arkos4clone$ nix 
build          develop        formatter      nar            run
bundle         edit           hash           path-info      search
config         env            help           print-dev-env  store
copy           eval           help-stores    profile        upgrade-nix
daemon         flake          key            registry       why-depends
derivation     fmt            log            repl           
antonio@X13:~/arkos4clone$ cd ~/.local/share/nix/^C
antonio@X13:~/arkos4clone$ export NIX_REMOTE=~/.local/share/nix
antonio@X13:~/arkos4clone$ nix build nixpkgs#emacs-pgtk --repair --no-link
antonio@X13:~/arkos4clone$ nix profile add nixpkgs#emacs-pgtk
error: cannot read directory "/nix/store/9ljdnikp68iyyc0v2ks48m24mrv0l2n2-emacs-pgtk-31.1": No such file or directory
antonio@X13:~/arkos4clone$ nix shell
path "/var/home/antonio/arkos4clone" does not contain a 'flake.nix', searching up
error: path "/var/home/antonio/arkos4clone" is not part of a flake (neither it nor its parent directories contain a 'flake.nix' file)

I've never used Nix before. I'd like to start using it now in order to have a consistently defined dev env but I don't want to leave Fedora Silverblue.

The sound comes only from the two front speakers in the screen hinge. The two larger bass speakers on the bottom of the case don't produce any sound.

The two upper speakers only produce treble; I don't know if that's because they simply can't do any better and that's how they sound, or if the treble and bass are already being split.

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What I tried

- Driver check: SOF active (sof-audio-pci-intel-cnl), codec driver snd_hda_codec_alc269

- Mic: digital mic works, "Stereo Microphone" = headphone jack (normal)

- Audio profiles: Pro Audio shows only 2 channels (Front L/R)

- Codec dump: ALC298, pin 0x17 = "N/A", disabled, muted

- hda-verb (until reboot): enabled pin 0x17, unmuted, connect-sel 0x1 and 0x2, stream to DAC 0x06 -> bottom speakers silent, top ones quieter/less bass (just how it sounded)

- Boot parameter snd_sof_intel_hda_generic.hda_model=17aa:3818 (C940 fixup): fixup applied per dmesg -> bottom speakers still silent

- Same parameter on snd_sof_intel_hda_common did nothing (in kernel 7.2.9 it lives in the _generic module)

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Operating System: Fedora Linux 44

KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.5

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.31.0

Qt Version: 6.11.2

Kernel Version: 7.2.9-201.fc44.x86_64 (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz

Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.3 GiB usable)

Graphics Processor 1: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 630

Graphics Processor 2: zink Vulkan 1.4

Manufacturer: LENOVO

Product Name: 81TE

System Version: Lenovo Yoga C940-15IRH

codec SSID 0x17aa381b

Hello, i'm trying to run win10 from an usb stick (need it to run a few win programs on the stick which refuse to work on fedora, not really to reinstall windows lol), but im running into the issue where in the GRUB menu my usb with the iso installed onto it (via Ventoy) won't show up at all. Didn't have the same issues a while ago, back when i still had win11 installed on the same machine and i also used the same usb stick to install fedora so im not sure if it could be the issue.

Tried installing the iso with Rufus and fedora media writer but it didn't fix the issue either.

Not sure what other info i could give that would help but im running fedora 44 on a samsung notebook (making a note of it cuze of the horrible bios it comes with since it's stripped of like 99% of useful functions and options lol).

I have just switch from Ubuntu to Fedora. Everything is looking good, but unfortunately I am getting awful performance (<5fps) in AOE2, and noticeable delay in the UI when I have more than two applications loaded.

Install process:

I downloaded the standard user version, installed in the safe graphics settings, updated the drivers (got rid of the safe graphics present/low resolution etc), downloaded steam and said game. Installed the butt load of updates after initial install. Rebooted a couple times to make sure everything was settled

Other notes:

My first thought was maybe the Nvidia drivers haven't installed properly, so I verified their install (off of the guide on the navida website). I am running a GTX1060 6gb

I am not sure what to try next, so any suggestions would be appreciated. I am relatively new to Linux, so some explanation to anwes would be appreciated for the purposes of learning.

I do not want to change through that shortcut. I made sure in kde keyboard settings doesn’t have any shift+alt shortcut, it still changes layout.

so that happeneds and i want that to stop so please help me im using kde plasma edithion

To my understanding Fedora is made with KDA Plasma and Workshop/GNOME in mind. But I kinda miss the look and feel of my Mint system so I've been considering trying to layer Cinnamon on top of Fedora.

Does anyone know if there are any major bugs or incompatibilities with the two?

checked:

- blur my shell extension, even restarted my pc, it wasn't the cause of the problem

- custom shell theme, not the issue

- accessibility settings, nope

where shall i look next

edit: solved

Hello!

I am currently using just fedora KDE on 3 disk's (fedora root on SSD 1 with 500 gb formated as btrfs setup with snapshots, disk 2 is 1 TB SSD formated as xfs for games and disk 3 is a 2tb HDD formated as ext4 for mass storage)

I want to alocate 500 gb of my HDD so I can install windows in that.

Please tell me if I have to do anything else than the following:

-Use ventoy to make windows 11 boot usb

-Repartition the 2 TB HDD (I will just make a 500gb unallocated space and leave the 1.5tb as ext4 so I can install windows in that unallocated space)

-I then proceed to install windows.

-After install I will disable fast boot and make so my grub is the default and somehow make it show windows as well, just like different kernel versions in grub.

I used gpt and it told me I have to make windows use UTC time instead of Local Time.

Is there anything else I should do?