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Hi! I have some newb-ish questions, and I was hoping some Fedora veterans could help me out.

I have been using the KDE spin of Fedora since 36, and I love it. I distro-hopped for years, but I have not had any interest since landing on Fedora. I have been using the KDE spin because I love KDE. I love how lightweight yet feature-rich and customizable it is. It can really be anything I need it to be, and it's amazing.

With that said, there are two recent happenings that have made me question whether I should switch to the original GNOME version:

1. I've been having some minor issues lately with F39, like audio not working after I reboot, so I had to eeventuakly remove it altogether and use pipewire, which has been working better. Nothing big, but minor issues like that. I've heard that the GNOME version performs better and is more stable/has less bugs, but idk if there's any truth to it?

2. I have an Nvidia GPU. Wayland support is pretty bad for me, and I've been relying on X11 all this time. Recently, it was confirmed that Fedora will be dropping X11 support altogether in F40. I'm wondering if anyone out there has used both KDE and Gnome with an Nvidia GPU that can tell me if there's any difference in Wayland performance?

I kinda don't want to switch to GNOME, because I love KDE, but if it will make my experience better, then I think it's probably worth a shot.

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https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/iperf3/-/merge_requests/5

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1800563

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/straw-poll-on-your-preferences-about-opt-in-opt-out-for-possible-data-collection/85675/2

This poll is a bit hard to understand but essentially you could vote for multiple options, the highest opt-out option is at 26%, meaning 74% of people oppose this idea.

The original proposal is at 16%, for a jarring 84% disapproval rate.

Despite overwhelming negative feedback, Red Hat is currently drafting a revised proposal.

But what about Red Hat?

This is the link to the proposal: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Telemetry#Privacy-preserving_Telemetry_for_Fedora_Workstation

These parts are all interesting and contradict some people who argue Red Hat has no hand in this issue:

Name: Michael Catanzaro Email: <mcatanzaro@redhat.com>

and

The Red Hat Display Systems Team (which develops the desktop) proposes to enable limited data collection of anonymous Fedora Workstation usage metrics.

and

It is Fedora Legal's obligation to ensure our data collection complies with legal requirements in the jurisdictions in which Red Hat operates

and

Occasionally, Red Hat might need to collect specific metrics to justify additional time spent on contributing to Fedora or additional investment in Fedora.

The quotes above were handpicked. There are 7 matches for "Red Hat" in the link above, not counting the email address.

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I keep these notes for myself, figured they might help others, as well. :)

It was fun being on Fedora all this time, take care everyone!

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I used Fedora KDE since 36. I love the distro, for it adapts newer standard and kernel way faster, but still remain pretty reliable for the most part.

2 days ago I thought "It has been 2 months since 38 came out, it should be pretty safe to upgrade now"...long story short, I ended up wiping my installations. (Don't worry, I did back up my shit.)

KDE just straight up broke. No app can be launched through GUI, it claimed it has no memory to do the job while task manager shows 31 GB of memory is currently free. The only fix I found was to delete .config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc, which just straight up undo everything I've put into the desktop...so I just decided to export my flatpak installation list and do a fresh install. It can't go wrong with a fresh install right?

Annnnnnd it doesn't load. I don't know how, but the motherboard failed to load the new OS. I did the install again and got into GRUB successfully, I have no idea why second time works.

Well, now I got back to a functioning OS, I'll just quickly update, install Nvidia driver, and install my flatpak back...WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU NEED MORE INPUT? Turns out it's an ostree bug, just downgrading would fix it, but still, wtf.

Well whatever. I'll just install Steam, preparing to play CSGO with friends later...oh my god. EVERY NON-ENGLISH CHARACTER IS NOW A TOFU. In game text do display, but the fonts are all over the place, and switch system font setting doesn't do anything. Searched a bit, turns out Fedora 38 switched the default font to Variable Font, and somehow it turns the Noto into just the To.

Installing the old font with --allow-erase fixed that. Now, since CSGO on Wayland with Nvidia has refresh rate and latency issue, I'll switched to x11 very quickly...Hello, Steam? Where are you? It still shows in the task bar, but I can't bring the window out. Luckily I can still launch the game through the taskbar. Annnd the game randomly freezes, crashes with Steam every 10 minutes. My friend lost the match due to that.

So, did I mention I wiped my installs? Yap, I did it twice, I'm now a Fedora 37 user again. There were more things broken, I Ctrl+Alt+F2 couple of times, and I don't remember why.

Just a typical day for a Linux user, I think.

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