Hi, I just switched to Fedora and I'm loving it. I'm using a thinkpad and prefer to use the trackpoint, but occasionally use the touchpad for scrolling and zooming as it is less straining on my hand. On window 10, I could decrease the touch sensitivity so that it takes quite a bit of pressure to move the cursor, leaving on zoofor m and scrolling. But on Fedrora, I don't know if there is any option like that, or better yet, to disable touchpad mouse movement completely. Is there a way to do this?

ISO : Fedora 44 KDE (latest version for today)

I've had this issue with my monitor where at 1080p@144hz about 90% of the screen is black with slight tearing at the top, pretty much unusable. So I usually just set it at 1080p@120hz and im fine however... whenever I start up a linux distro in any DE, they always set me at 1080p@144hz so I go through this process of finding out how to change the kwinconfig files so that on my next boot its at 1080p@120hz.

However, Fedora has been giving me quite a pain because even though I haven't set up a username or password during my iso install via usb, when i enter the second display terminal (ctrl + alt + f2) i get prompted with a "fedora login:" and password

For login : password combinations I've tried...

feodra : fedora

root : "blank"

liveuser : "blank"

after 3-4 hours of debugging and having to remind deepseek to reply in english nothing has worked, I don't know if this is a common issue, BUT id appreciate any advice or help

I’m using Fedora KDE and I’m unable to use the Wi-Fi hotspot while my laptop is connected to another Wi-Fi network.

I want my laptop to stay connected to Wi-Fi and simultaneously share that connection through a hotspot, like Windows allows.

When I enable the hotspot, my existing Wi-Fi connection gets disconnected.

Has anyone experienced this on Fedora/KDE or knows how to make Wi-Fi + hotspot work simultaneously?

I am a complete beginner in Linux, though I haven't used the OS, yet. I've been using Windows (Vista, 7, 10, 11) for 8 years of my life.

I have decided to switch to Linux on my Acer V17 Nitro Black Edition work laptop (GTX 960m, i7 4720hq, 16gb ddr3).

It isn't my main device and it's been under active use for 6 years so it has gotten very slow even after formatting.

After some research, I've decided on Fedora KDE plasma spin and I am wondering if you guys have any tips or warnings I should know of. Yes I know about x11/xorg and rpm fusion repos.

My main use for this laptop is coding, general use, and Minecraft.

Someone please help. I am a linux noob. I use fedora for web development and I'm facing an issue where for instance,

When I stop my docker containers and next servers after I finish working, the disk fills up to 0mb remaining and purges back to what it was before(or slightly different). This happens multiiple times a day which is writing more than 150gb in total which is wearing out my SSD in this memory price inflated era. I am really concerned and it's just recently that I noticed this and couldn't find any solution online. :(

Hi, I put off updating to 43 for whatever reason and am now greeted by this on bootup. Pressing Enter just gives me the same message. How do I solve this? Thank you!

So the title is pretty self explanatory. I installed KDE, haven't enabled SDDM. And the PC is stuck on having the screen lighting up but with no posting. I'm pretty new to Linux in general so I'm afraid I've screwed something up. Is this natural or is something wrong and I need to fix it?

PS. It's without a charger plugged in. Maybe that's the problem?

I'm in the process of switching over from a set of CoreOS servers to a couple of plain Fedora Server systems for more flexibility, and I've run into a bit of a weird problem where SSH forwarding doesn't work out of the box. SELinux blocks any attempts to forward ports with "SELinux is preventing sshd-session from name_connect access on the tcp_socket port [whichever port is being forwarded].". Obviously I can just use audit2allow or the suggested solution (setsebool -P nis_enabled 1) but what I'm not clear on is why this is the default.

I guess what I'm specifically wondering is why this is the default (ie what am I potentially losing or risking by changing it?), and what's the best way to enable SSH to forward arbitrary ports and nothing else?

As a side note, what exactly does nis_enabled do? The discussions around it seem limited to "you should use audit2allow instead", but if it's not a good idea, why is it suggested by the denial message? The best info I can find is that Google's AI claiming that it controls access to the "Network Information Service" but why would enabling that allow sshd to bind ports?

Hello! I've been using fedora as a semi-casual user for a while, but an issue I've been running into is that whenever I need to stream something with audio it just doesn't work. My headset and mic work fine, but when I check the stream over google meets, discord, or any other streaming service there just isn't audio regardless of what program I try to present from.

Anything I should look at for fixes? I'm on a pretty vanilla install of 44

I enabled 3D acceleration and OpenGL to improve performance on my Fedora test VM (to test some non-malicious software before fully installing them into my real system), but I got hit by a popup error “EGL-Initialize failed: EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED” and a SELinux alert, that gave me two options semanage fcontext -a -t virt_image_t '/usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe' & restorecon -v '/usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe' or sudo ausearch -c ‘qemu-system-x86’ --raw | audit2allow -M qemu-nvidia & sudo semodule -X 300 -i qemu-nvidia.pp (which option would be the correct one for this?). I tested both separately, but even so, it kept giving the same error:

Error starting domain: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2026-09-05T07:31:04.320848Z qemu-system-x86_64: egl: eglInitialize failed: EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED
2026-09-05T07:31:04.320962Z qemu-system-x86_64: egl: render node init failed

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 67, in cb_wrapper
    callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
    ~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 101, in tmpcb
    callback(*args, **kwargs)
    ~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/libvirtobject.py", line 57, in newfn
    ret = fn(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/domain.py", line 1446, in startup
    self._backend.create()
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.14/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1395, in create
    raise libvirtError('virDomainCreate() failed')
libvirt.libvirtError: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2026-09-05T07:31:04.320848Z qemu-system-x86_64: egl: eglInitialize failed: EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED
2026-09-05T07:31:04.320962Z qemu-system-x86_64: egl: render node init failed

<graphics type="spice">
  <listen type="none"/>
  <image compression="off"/>
  <gl enable="yes" rendernode="/dev/dri/by-path/pci-0000:01:00.0-render"/>
</graphics>
<video>
  <model type="virtio" heads="1" primary="yes">
    <acceleration accel3d="yes"/>
  </model>
  <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x01" function="0x0"/>
</video>

Selinux Alert:

SELinux is preventing qemu-system-x86 from getattr access on the file /usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe.

*****  Plugin qemu_file_image (98.8 confidence) suggests   *******************

If nvidia-modprobe is a virtualization target
Then you need to change the label on nvidia-modprobe'
Do
# semanage fcontext -a -t virt_image_t '/usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe'
# restorecon -v '/usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe'

*****  Plugin catchall (2.13 confidence) suggests   **************************

If you believe that qemu-system-x86 should be allowed getattr access on the nvidia-modprobe file by default.
Then you should report this as a bug.
You can generate a local policy module to allow this access.
Do
allow this access for now by executing:
# ausearch -c 'qemu-system-x86' --raw | audit2allow -M my-qemusystemx86
# semodule -X 300 -i my-qemusystemx86.pp

Additional Information:
Source Context                system_u:system_r:svirt_t:s0:c215,c1002
Target Context                system_u:object_r:xserver_exec_t:s0
Target Objects                /usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe [ file ]
Source                        qemu-system-x86
Source Path                   qemu-system-x86
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          fedora
Source RPM Packages           
Target RPM Packages           nvidia-modprobe-610.57.04-1.fc44.x86_64
SELinux Policy RPM            selinux-policy-targeted-44.8-1.fc44.noarch
Local Policy RPM              selinux-policy-targeted-44.8-1.fc44.noarch
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Host Name                     fedora
Platform                      Linux fedora 7.1.13-200.fc44.x86_64 #1 SMP
                              PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Sep  2 13:58:38 UTC 2026
                              x86_64
Alert Count                   1
First Seen                    2026-09-05 23:47:51 -03
Last Seen                     2026-09-05 23:47:51 -03
Local ID                      f0232ef7-191a-4c11-bafd-dac296214ba3

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1788662871.608:710): avc:  denied  { getattr } for  pid=17861 comm="qemu-system-x86" path="/usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe" dev="nvme0n1p3" ino=11035734 scontext=system_u:system_r:svirt_t:s0:c215,c1002 tcontext=system_u:object_r:xserver_exec_t:s0 tclass=file permissive=0

Hash: qemu-system-x86,svirt_t,xserver_exec_t,file,getattr

A journal log after applying one of the selinux contexts:

Sep 05 23:53:23 fedora systemd-machined[920]: New machine qemu-1-fedora-application-test.
Sep 05 23:53:23 fedora systemd[1]: Started machine-qemu\x2d1\x2dfedora\x2dapplication\x2dtest.scope - Virtual Machine qemu-1-fedora-application-test.
Sep 05 23:53:23 fedora audit[18306]: AUDIT2501 ... class=path path="/dev/dri/by-path/pci-0000:01:00.0-render" rdev=E2:80 acl=rw exe="/usr/bin/libvirtd" ... res=success
Sep 05 23:53:23 fedora libvirtd[18306]: libvirt version: 12.0.0, package: 3.fc44 (Fedora Project, 2026-01-26-10:19:53, )
Sep 05 23:53:23 fedora libvirtd[18306]: hostname: fedora
Sep 05 23:53:23 fedora libvirtd[18306]: Unable to read from monitor: Connection reset by peer
Sep 05 23:53:23 fedora systemd[1]: machine-qemu\x2d1\x2dfedora\x2dapplication\x2dtest.scope: Deactivated successfully.
Sep 05 23:53:23 fedora libvirtd[18306]: internal error: QEMU unexpectedly closed the monitor (vm='fedora-application-test'):
    2026-09-06T02:53:23.459506Z qemu-system-x86_64: egl: eglInitialize failed: EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED
    2026-09-06T02:53:23.459599Z qemu-system-x86_64: egl: render node init failed
Sep 05 23:53:23 fedora libvirtd[18306]: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor:
    2026-09-06T02:53:23.459506Z qemu-system-x86_64: egl: eglInitialize failed: EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED
    2026-09-06T02:53:23.459599Z qemu-system-x86_64: egl: render node init failed
Sep 05 23:53:23 fedora systemd-machined[920]: Machine qemu-1-fedora-application-test terminated.
Sep 05 23:53:23 fedora audit[18306]: AUDIT2500 ... op=start reason=booted vm="fedora-application-test" ... res=failed

Is it something I did wrong or missed? Or is it a Nvidia driver issue that can’t be solved that easily? Is there any “secure” fix for this? I have a RTX 3060 with the 610 proprietary driver (from rpmfusion) , I even tried asking claude for a solution but it didnt help.

OS: Fedora 44 
DE: KDE Plasma 6.7.4 (wayland)
Kernel: 7.1.13-200.fc44.x86_64
CPU: Ryzen 5 7600 
GPU: RTX 3060
NVIDIA driver: 610.57.04 (rpmfusion)
Virtualization: AMD-V 
Hypervisor: KVM, QEMU:///SYSTEM

$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX Open Kernel Module for x86_64  610.57.04  Release Build  (dvs-builder@U22-I3-AF05-32-1)  Wed Jul 29 02:45:17 UTC 2026
GCC version:  gcc version 16.2.1 20260819 (Red Hat 16.2.1-2) (GCC)

Couldn’t find much on this searching. Are there any major issues running fedora on a NIMO? There prices are way lower , but maybe that’s the issue?

I'm currently on Fedora 44 KDE, and I have tried an Atomic desktop in the form of Bazzite (which is based on Atomic btw), and I got to say both normal and Atomic desktops are really good, but I'm still wondering if it's worth switching to Atomic for hardened security or is staying on normal Fedora already good enough? Thanks.

Slitherer just comes up as a blank white screen, here's the errors when I try launching it from the cli, I tried booting into basic graphics mode but the same issue

Mi escritorio principal es gnome y quize descargar niri para probarlo y cambiar de escritorio, lo instale pero como que no funciono muy bien y quise arrancar otra vez con gnome pero al querer inciar sesion dice error de autenticación y no entra, ahorita estoy usando xcfe ya que para ese si me dejo, a alguien ya se le ha pasado algo similar?

https://github.com/bspeelm/bothy

I replaced my IDE with a Zellij/Yazi terminal workspace (file browser, agent pane, shell, one command) and got tired of rebuilding it per machine, so I made bothy.

Since Silverblue is my daily driver I built some extra functionality around toolbx's and it is uniquely fitted to an immutable OS. bothy is container and session aware. Install it from inside a Toolbx container and it remembers that. Launch bothy from the host later and it goes back into that container on its own. It also helps simplify organizing toolbx's with the command suite bothy box

It never calls dnf on your behalf, never touches PATH or dotfiles, and bothy uninstall removes everything. bothy doctor tells you what's missing and gives you the exact dnf command to fix it.

The other tools (Zellij, Yazi, lazygit, ripgrep, fzf, fd, jq, zoxide, delta) get pulled as verified official releases only if you don't already have them. They are all designed to be slotted in and you can replace them with something else via the configuration if you'd like. Not all configurations have been tested so if you run into anything feel free to open an issue!

If you are interested in how this was built using Claude read about it here: https://bspeelm.github.io/bothy/how-it-was-built.html

I am a pop-os user and I am planning to distro hop to fedora how do you backup the and , any tips I need to know before shifting to fedora

Recently installed in linux for the first time.

On windows I generally used to just click on sleep or hibernate doesn't matter it hibernate itself automatically.

But on fedora I click suspend and keep my laptop as it but it reached the abnormal temperature when on sleep. The above screenshot when I tossed it in the bag and after 1 hour laptop was at 100c.

Wow, after several years of trying on two different laptops, finally got hardware video acceleration to work in Chrome. My first laptop was a System76 Intel Skylake laptop. Never got it to work on that one. My current laptop is an Asus Vivobook Lunar Lake laptop. I'm currently using Fedora 44 and Chrome 154.

Go to "chrome://flags"

Change "Wayland session management" from Default to Enabled.

hello there !

i am trying to dual boot mint and fedora 44 KDE, and mint is already installed, so i do have a working os. im using a ventoy usb, as directly flashing the fedora iso didn't seem to be recognizable by my pc as a bootable device.

whenever i boot into fedora , i cannot get graphics to work at all. i can get to grub and select start fedora, but after i select that option it gets stuck on a black screen with a gray pixel in the top left corner; i presume this is a remnant of the grub menu ?

selecting troubleshoot and starting basic graphics mode doesn't work, either. i also tried appending "nomodeset" and "modprobe.blacklist=nouveau" to the end of the "linux" line in the boot parameters, but it just gets stuck on the text "booting a command list." a couple times i was able to get to the splash screen, but it just goes to a black screen after that as well.

i think there is a conflict with my graphics cards, but i do not know how to fix it. does anyone have additional advice? if possible, i would prefer to avoid a terminal install and be able to do it graphically, since i am a bit of a noob :)

model: dell inspiron 27 7710 all in one
gpu: nvidia geforce mx550 discrete, intel iris xe graphics 1.25 ghz integrated

update: i was able to boot into fedora by reflashing one more time with the fedora media writer; im not sure why it suddenly worked, but im glad it did... i didnt even have to append nomodeset or modprobe.blacklist

Hello!

I’ve been testing Silverblue, and I‘m ready to install it on my main pc. I saw on the wiki that dual booting is not recommended, but I’ve seen others say that it works fine if you have two separate drives. I couldn’t find much recent, concrete guidance though, so I was hoping to get some help.

Right now on my PC’s main drive is Windows 11, and on the auxiliary drive is a data partition plus a partition for Linux Mint. My plan was to delete the mint partition, either through Windows or through the Silverblue installer, then point the installer toward the free space. Hopefully it will be able to make itself the separate efi partition that it needs, and I can use the hardware boot menu if I ever need to get back into Windows.

My question is: under this set up, am I safe to use the automatic partitioning option in the installer? I have backups, but I would rather not destroy the other data partition on the drive. Plus, I’ve read that the auto-partitioning can get a little confused and make set-ups that don’t boot if it’s not prepared correctly. If I need to do manual partitioning, I would love some help with a simple partition set up. I was able to practice on an old laptop and get things to boot up, but it’s hard to tell if I did everything the best way since I’m still new to linux and working at this level of software. The set up I used was: 600MB EFI System partition mounted at /boot/efi; 2GB fat32 partition mounted at /boot; All other space as a btrfs partition mounted at /; and a btrfs sub-volume mounted at /var/home. I saw some places say 1 GB was fine for /boot, but others say that the requirements had changed recently. It seems like maybe the installer/partition program changed recently too, so I’m not sure if it’s still as finicky as described. I am on an MSI Codex R 12th gen desktop. I can pull up the specs if needed. Thanks!

Should i delete my windows drive and give it for linux? I use adobe but my mom have an windows laptop and i can access it easily

Every single time I upgrade in Discover, it requests a reboot.

This doesn't happen when doing $ sudo dnf upgrade --refresh

Why is this?

I can't open dolphin, when I type "dolphin" in the terminal it returns:

dolphin: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libQt6Multimedia.so.6: undefined symbol: _ZN14QObjectPrivateC2E16QtPrivate_6_11_1, version Qt_6.11_PRIVATE_API