2mo ago

I made the switch yesterday

Just wanted to say I made the switch yesterday from Windows 11 to Fedora Linux, no dual booting. It took multiple installs though because the first two times I followed old instructions for installing the Nvidia drivers. The third time I found out that I can just install them through the software center when third party repositories are enabled and that worked like a breeze.

And I have to say it's a really good thing that the installer for Fedora is getting an overhaul soon because Anaconda is horribly confusing in its UX.

Edit: just wanted to add a hyfetch screenshot:

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Welcome to the community! 😀

It's normal to have that experience, something is outdated, some things are not intuitive but you come out as a winner on the other side if you don't give up. :)
- Currently the only thing for me that definitely needs improvement is the configuration of GDM because I just can't understand why my display configuration doesn't get applied to my login screen so that my login is on my secondary monitor instead of my primary one. And why can't I set a wallpaper for my login screen easily? Things like these should be built in.
  
  Currently the only thing for me that definitely needs improvement is the configuration of GDM
  Preach bro
  
  Same experience as me, worked it out eventually but not as intuitive as it should be.

Marvelous :) Good on you for taking this leap. The Linux community on Lemmy can help if you need any advice or guidance. I have been rocking fedora for the last few years and I've been very pleased, also with an Nvidia GPU.
I'm curious if you have any resources to get setup with the Nvidia drivers, different from mine? My reference has always been: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA
And it's always worked like a charm, both for legacy hardware and new hardware.
- Don't know if the first time had something to do with Nvidia but I changed something in GDM settings and couldn't login anymore, it just returned me to the login screen after typing in my password. The second time it said something about a missing kernel module upon startup. Both times I followed the same instructions you linked but doing it through the software center is definitely simpler and more straightforward.

If you can, comment on those old posts to let people know those instructions don’t work anymore. Welcome to the light side. :)

I built a new PC recently and decided to go with fedora as well to see if I liked it. I have amd and saw multiple things saying drivers on Linux are different and you don't need to update them. Is that true?
- You generally don't need to mess with drivers on Linux with desktop oriented distros.
  One exception is Nvidia graphics cards IF you want to game. They'll work fine out of the box but for full gaming performance you've gotta install their proprietary drivers. (And this is slightly harder on Fedora due to their more aggressive anti-proprietary policies.)
  
  I had heard that Nvidia doesn't play well with Linux which is one of many reasons I went with amd
  
  I found it was pretty easy once I knew how ^^
  Just enable third party repositories during the setup, search for Nvidia in the Software Center and install the drivers and follow the instructions displayed, done.
- They'll update when you update the rest of your system, using whatever software center app you have or sudo dnf upgrade .
  
  Ok that's what I thought, but just wanted to be sure. Thanks!
  
  This, and they also generally don't require a reboot. Especially with the dnf method.
  I dunno why the software center forces you to reboot for updates, but it's typically unnecessary.

Welcome!

You've taken your first step into a larger world. /ObiWan
Welcome aboard!! 😁

Welcome!

That's excellent. I played around with fedora a bit and I felt it was very solid. I hope you have the same experience!
- I already have some experience with Fedora Server where I selfhost my stuff so I'm confident that I will have the same experience.
  
  Great! Always good to see people leaving windows. As someone, who for about 15 years, said "linux isn't ready yet" and then finally switched 99% to linux, it is very painful to use windows these days. I had to test something on windows the other day and literally had to reboot 4 times for updates because it had been like 2 months since I updated.

Welcome! I'm not as brave as you I'm still dual booting.

Fedora core was also my first distro I installed back in 2006, it's an elegant set of tools and stable for general use, happy computing!

Try Fedora Budgie Edition familiar windows layout for operating system.

i tried Fedora 40 lxqt in vm, and it was a huge disappointment. openSUSE kde and Garuda KDE are much better. However, my laptop as it seems is totally incompatible with linux kernel, due to its highly propriatry hardware. MSI Gf63 Thin 9sc
- Was your issue with Fedora or lxqt?
  The latter is pretty spartan. I could see it being disappointing compared to Plasma.
  
  specifically my biggest beef was with dnf. Very few packages and uninstalling stuff is pretty hard that is not installed with it.

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