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:
Welcome to the community! 😀
If you can, comment on those old posts to let people know those instructions don’t work anymore. Welcome to the light side. :)
It’s normal to have that experience, something is outdated, some things are not intuitive but you come out as a winner on the other side if you don’t give up.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
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.
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.
