Beginner advice on F40

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Any advice for me? I’ve used Linux for decades (since RH Linux 3/4) and I recently switched to Fedora from Windows so I’m new to Desktop Linux, Gnome, and Fedora. I’ve used F39 on an old Dell quite successfully for many months. I decided to buy a new HP Desktop (Ryzen 5 5600, 32 GB RAM, ssd) for a newer Fedora, currently F40. I’m very dissatisfied with the HP or F40 (or both). This new AMD machine should fly compared to the old Dell but it seems waay slower and too slow. I don’t know what to do and I’m wondering if Fedora was a good choice. Would upgrading to F41 help? Or would that just come with new bugs? Chrome and gnome-shell are competing to over-use the CPU (see below) and my headset doesn’t seem to work (plug it in to the front jacks–not recognized–do I need to reboot?). Thanks!

top - 11:47:36 up 14 days, 19:07,  1 user,  load average: 1.22, 1.33, 1.41
Tasks: 424 total,   3 running, 421 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
top - 11:47:51 up 14 days, 19:08,  1 user,  load average: 1.38, 1.36, 1.41
Tasks: 427 total,   1 running, 426 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  6.9 us,  1.4 sy,  0.0 ni, 91.5 id,  0.0 wa,  0.1 hi,  0.1 si,  0.0 st 
MiB Mem :  31422.0 total,   7036.3 free,   8221.0 used,  16826.9 buff/cache     
MiB Swap:   8192.0 total,   8136.5 free,     55.5 used.  23201.0 avail Mem 

    PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                                                                                                                                                
 728791 amead     20   0 6020572 475004 149432 S  35.5   1.5     10,22 gnome-shell                                                                                                                                                            
 761815 amead     20   0 1156.5g 439152 142876 S  34.9   1.4  17:57.93 chrome                                                                                                                                                                 
 729014 amead     20   0  796180  43840  21696 S  10.0   0.1 215:50.68 gsd-media-keys                                                                                                                                                         
    697 root      20   0  333840 177856 176988 S   9.0   0.6     39,43 systemd-journal                                                                                                                                                        
 529666 amead      9 -11  714852  33764  13296 S   6.3   0.1     12,08 wireplumber                                                                                                                                                            
 729731 amead     20   0  770780  55648  43772 S   1.0   0.2   1:54.05 gnome-terminal-                                                                                                                                                        
   2173 amead      9 -11  346660  13412   8288 S   0.7   0.0 135:26.31 pipewire                                                                                                                                                               
 729991 amead     20   0   33.0g 534016 251784 S   0.7   1.7  44:22.46 chrome                                                                                                                                                                 
 752766 amead     20   0  231932   5664   3488 R   0.7   0.0  12:55.10 top
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Hello and welcome to the forums!

Could you provide the output of the inxi -Fzxx command, specifically the graphics section as well as the System Details from the About page in the Settings app?

I’m wondering if it is using software rendering instead of the appropriate GPU drivers.

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Sure, here’s the system about:

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Here’s the inxi output:

System:
  Kernel: 6.11.4-201.fc40.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 2.41-37.fc40
  Desktop: GNOME v: 46.6 tk: GTK v: 3.24.43 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM
    Distro: Fedora Linux 40 (Workstation Edition)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: HP product: HP Desktop M01-F3xxx v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 8AB6 v: SMVB serial: <superuser required>
    part-nu: 577M1AAR#ABA UEFI: AMI v: F.21 date: 01/10/2024
CPU:
  Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
    type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3 rev: 0 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 16 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1482 min/max: 1400/3900 boost: enabled cores: 1: 1482
    2: 1482 3: 1482 4: 1482 5: 1482 6: 1482 7: 1482 8: 1482 9: 1482 10: 1482
    11: 1482 12: 1482 bogomips: 93418
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series /
    Radeon Mobile Series] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel
    arch: GCN-5 pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: HDMI-A-1
    empty: DP-1 bus-ID: 0c:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1638 temp: 35.0 C
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 model: Dell S2721H res: 1920x1080 dpi: 82
    diag: 686mm (27")
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.1.7 glx-v: 1.4 es-v: 3.2
    direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (radeonsi renoir LLVM
    18.1.6 DRM 3.59 6.11.4-201.fc40.x86_64) device-ID: 1002:1638
    display-ID: :0.0
  API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.
Audio:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir Radeon High Definition
    Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0c:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h HD Audio
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s
    lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0c:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
  API: ALSA v: k6.11.4-201.fc40.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.0.9 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw_8821ce v: N/A pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:c821
  IF: wlp9s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 0a:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
  IF: enp10s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 1.1
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-12:2 chip-ID: 0bda:b00e
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 4.2
    lmp-v: 8
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 96.04 GiB (20.1%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WD PC SN740
    SDDPNQD-512G-1006 size: 476.94 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4
    serial: <filter> temp: 35.9 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 475.35 GiB used: 95.62 GiB (20.1%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
  ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 411.8 MiB (42.3%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 19 MiB (3.2%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-4: /home size: 475.35 GiB used: 95.62 GiB (20.1%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 55.5 MiB (0.7%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 44.9 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 35.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): fan-1: 0 fan-2: 0
Info:
  Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 30.69 GiB used: 9.83 GiB (32.0%)
  Processes: 445 Power: uptime: 14d 20h 45m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 255
    target: graphical (5) default: graphical
  Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 5
    Compilers: N/A Shell: Bash v: 5.2.26 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.36
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I should add that wireplumber and gsd-media-keys and sometimes wireplumber and systemd-journal are often high and I see pages of this error (below). If x:x:19 is seconds, there’s a few logged errors/second. This system does not have speakers (although I think it can access the speakers on my monitor) and my headset doesn’t work with this system.

Nov 07 13:42:19 ws-fedora wireplumber[529666]: wplua: [string “alsa.lua”]:182: attempt to concatenate a nil value (local ‘node_name’)

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Well, you could try F41 live without installing.

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That’s a good point. I hadn’t thought about a live disk. The problem behavior was also immediately better when I disabled extension in Gnome and logged out/in. But logging out and back in has made it better (and one of the extensions was updated; I don’t think Extension Manager said which one) so I’m not sure extensions have anything to do with it. I think the problem arises when I let Gnome run for a while.