I accidentally ran "sudo dnf install update" today and automatically hit yes and almost thought I installed a virus or something. Is there a reason sudo dnf install update installs the python3-pwntools package? also i couldn't remove it using sudo dnf remove update, i had to use sudo dnf remove python3-pwntools. just thought it was kinda odd

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Fedora once again has borked in a new way after an update. On the Gnome login screen no matter how many times I enter my password I cannot get in. I tried uninstalling the NVIDIA drivers from the ternimal, as they always seem to cause problems, but I can no longer install them back. I've tried every kernel version in GRUB and nothing changes. Thought I was going to get some work done today but the lord has other plans.

i need help with this. I have a thinkpad E14 and after installing tlp the computer reboots when i shut it down.

It does happen 80% of the times i shut down the computer, it happens whenever i do it via the terminal o via the gnome UI.

Im on fedora 41

Any help appreciated

Edit: after some testing i found out it only happens when not connected to AC

Edit 2: i just tested with the power cord connected and it happened again so idk

Hello! My relatively pleasent experience with a fully encrypted PopOS install was abruptly ended by my bootloader breaking after I installed some trusted drivers for controllers. I honestly have absolutely no clue what happened. In any case, whatever happened made it so that I couldn't access my desktop because it just wouldn't reach the "Unencrypt data" log in screen. Something about being unable to reach UUID, although I swear I checked every resource online available about such errors and NONE of the things I tried (at least 5 very involved "solutions", including the official bootloader repair from System76) were able to fix it. Ultimately, I just settled for extracting the data (unencrypting from a live install was easy enough thannkfully) and attempting a refresh install. This worked, ofc, although I did lose a lot during the refresh install, and thought this a good opportunity to try a new distro.
I've settled on Fedora as the next OS for my main work machine—a laptop I carry around with me everywhere—but one that also doesn't have any particularly sensitive information other than maybe some government documents I tend to have on hand for forms and such. As you may understand though, the aforementioned issues with encryption and the bootloader have left a sour taste in my mouth. Is it really even worth it to fully encrypt my drive? Obviously it's safer, but there's always a tradeoff between ease-of-use and safety. Was hoping for some perspectives as to whether this trade off is really that important.

i have a pc with a hdd and i want to dualboot fedora 41 and windows i heard that windows destroys the boot menu?

This is the second time my computer breaks with this same error and I have to reinstall the whole OS. The first time I got this same error after updating, now a few days later I get it after a power outage. I'm starting to believe Fedora is not reliable for everyday use; imagine installing this OS into my parents PC and they get this issue after a normal update. I only use my computer for Steam and Stardew Valley, why am I getting this? Is there any solution without having to reinstall the entire OS? Any way to prevent it in the future?

Hello, I'm having a great time with Fedora, after distro hoping for years, I found something that I'm really comfortable with. It's not perfect tho. One issue that still plagues basically all linux distributions is the package distribution issue.

I really like the overall idea of flatpaks, but it's really hard for me to trust them if not directly supported/recommended by the original app developers. The most recent examples that I have are Steam, Spotify and Slack. Neither of these are available in the Fedora official repository, so I have to install them as flatpaks, the problem is that neither of those are also verified by Valve/Spotify.

Another problem that I see with flatpaks is that even the ones that are "verified" on flathub doesn't give much credibility; For example the Tidal flatpak, even though it is verified, I can't find any link between the flatpak maintainer and the actual Tidal company.

(But I guess this more of a problem with flatpaks/flathub).

I really don't want to install snapd just to get these apps. I guess I could use Spotify and Slack through the browser, but that is not an option for Steam.

Is there a safe way that you deal with this problem?

Hello, i'm currently running Fedora workstation (with gnome) and I keep reading that KDE is much better. So I might be interested to switch mine. Is there a way to do that instead of booting it on Fedora KDE ? Without breaking anything of course. PS: i'm using a Dell precision with t1200 Nvidia GPU. Thank you guys !

As after the previous post I did receive some feedback, most of it was on the name, but as I said I like the name, so I am keeping it. The main thing I got from the feedback was that I am building the script for a new user, and the user might not be familiar with GitHub or may don't even know how to run a script. So porting the script into a language like rust and making one binary and run it through something like curl will be easier and much more user intuitive. Here's the link to the project. https://github.com/Angxddeep/Fedora-Freedom

Fedora 41 with Adwaita Sans font

Have you already moved to the new default Gnome font? I decided to set a size smaller than their suggested one (10 instead of 11).

Hi yall!

I've been using fedora for about a year now on a laptop that used to run Windows 11.

My question is, would it be worth it as a student to go back to windows or to stick with what I know and can use well? Like do the upsides of 11 outweigh what I've done on fedora?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

New user here. I wanted to dual boot and use linux too because of the accesability and other benefits but i cant actually completely give up windows because linux cant play games etc. Would love to read some new user tips. I am a long time windows user and do not have a lot of experience with linux other than messing up with things because my old pc was so slow.

I’m using Fedora 41, and my laptop uses its iGPU almost everything (one of those nvidia optimus laptops with no way to display straight from the GPU). On the gnome verision, I always get a flickering on the loading cursor icon.

Here’s a video I took briefly showing the flickering: https://youtu.be/pjUZq2Zj5D8?si=uS1WVp8eyx5Fs_kv

How can I fix this, if there is a way to do so? This doesn’t happen on Ubuntu, but its purely a visual issue, no impact on functionality.

Hey! Ive been trying to get modrinth working on fedora 41 running gnome DE.

I was unable to get any of the packages from modrinth to work - same with most of the launchers on the fedora "appstore" but prismlauncher works! Just thought id let people know. Have a nice day :D

I am new to Linux, starting about 4 months ago. I started on Arch to learn and liked it, but being new want something that I do not have to maintain myself as much since I am still relatively new to Linux. I also tried Debian and Mint, but both had issues on my hardware (Lunar Lake) due to kernel versions and did not like Cinnamon and found I really like KDE, but Debian's was old vs Arch's. Asking questions in the Linux Mint forum, was not a pleasant experience, as they got offensive when I mentioned I was not a fan of Cinnamon. So I posted on DistroHopping and Fedora KDE was the most common in the top choices.

I understand the codecs and Nvidia drivers side of Fedora and was able to get it installed and running fine without any issue. But I started running into an issue adding a printer and found out that the firewall is pretty strict up front. I corrected that.

I work in dealing with video editing and creation for a living and I have found my tool set on Linux and it works great.

So long story short.... Are there any good guides on setting up Fedora, post install. Any tweaks, software, settings, etc. Just want to make sure I give Fedora a proper test to see if it is the one. I am liking it so far, but it has only been about 6 hours of testing so far.

I appreciate any guidance

I once ran davinci resolve 18 and after setting it up properly there has been no issue. After upgrading to 19 everything stops working, preview would not show even after converting to the right codec using ffmpeg and the uadio is messed up. Any suggestions? Reverting to 18 also doesn't work, I don't know which version of davinci resolve I was using where the codec still works. I'm on Fedora 40

I'm in the i3wm fedora spin, and I've been trying for days to disable any kind of sleeping, hibernating, going off, and asking for any kind of password to go back. I want to just watch a whole streaming movie without having to enter the password. Google isn't helping. Any idea?

The same font renders differently in Fedora Workstation 41's Chromium-based browsers, but Firefox displays it correctly. If anyone has faced this issue before, please let me know how you fixed it.

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While booting up my fedora, This screen is coming very frequently nowadays. This was not a frequent occurrence some time ago. Can anyone tell if is it ok or not?

I am on Fedora and my Chromium stopped working out of the sudden. After restarting my system and opening Chromium I get the error:

chromium-browser [14927:14927:0203/115137.005876:ERROR:process_singleton_posix.cc(358)] The profile appears to be in use by another Chromium process (5493) on another computer (fedora). Chromium has locked the profile so that it doesn't get corrupted. If you are sure no other processes are using this profile, you can unlock the profile and relaunch Chromium. [14927:14927:0203/115137.005978:ERROR:message_box_dialog.cc(190)] Unable to show message box: Chromium - The profile appears to be in use by another Chromium process (5493) on another computer (fedora). Chromium has locked the profile so that it doesn't get corrupted. If you are sure no other processes are using this profile, you can unlock the profile and relaunch Chromium. 

I can fix it with : rm -rf ~/.config/chromium/Singleton*

But after rebooting i have to use the fix again.

Any ideas what the problem could be? Help would be very appreciated

Multiple kernels is a great feature for safety but it takes a lot of place in the grub menu and isn't really pretty/practical. Is there a way to hide the 3 rescue kernels in a "more options for Fedora" folder similarly to what there is for Linux Mint ? Thanks for the help !

Hi.

I already use Fedora 40 but I want to install it again on a new 1TB nvme drive. I have ditched my smartphone and I am using my laptop for everything so I want to secure it as best as possible.

I have been looking into Secure Boot, Luks, FIDO2 USB keys etc. I am quite technical but this all seems like a lot to learn.

So what is a sane level of security hardening when installing Fedora on my laptop that is not OTT?

Hi I switched to Linux 2 years ago and i always had problems with Discord (on Mint people couldn't hear the audio of my computer for example).

On Fedora the problem is that when i stream my screen, people in the call hear themselves talking, they hear my sound + themselves :( How to fix this please ?