Fedora 44 beta KDE x86_64 does not start from live USB (it freezes at the system loading animation stage). Basic graphics mode does not work either. I tried two different USB drives, as well as several applications for creating live USBs (balenaEtcher, Fedora Media Writer, Ventoy). The result is al…

You might try this it is the latest builds. Fedora nightly compose finder

Doesn’t it have a compatibility or ‘safe’ mode option? Like with nomodeset?

Forgot to say - safe mode is not changing anything.

It may be best to just wait a couple of weeks until the final version of f44 is released and install that instead of faffing around with the pre-release version you now have (and will continue to get until the final release).

Fedora 44 beta KDE x86_64 does not start from live USB

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theprogram (MatH) April 12, 2026, 6:43pm 4

We had a similar problem yesterday with KDE F43.

Unless you explicitly need to test the KDE desktop,

Can you install Fedora with the ‘Everything Netinstaller’ and select KDE to download?

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