I think new fedora 43 is a little worse than fedora 42

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SO befora i fully move to linux i used it dual booted fedora 42 with windows around 2 month and it was perfect . but when i fully installed fedora to my system it feels me a little bloating . and while i am moving my files fedora 43 came up and i upgrade but i am using it a little over a month and it kinda looks bloating to me . apps are opening slow and also i do virtualization a lot and sometimes vms just abort . i know i am new to linux and it may be my skill issue but the thing is that fedora 43 need to be beat in i5 rtx 4050 16gb ram . but i feel like it is bloating. i am using gnome desktop environment. thank for responses beforehand

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This could be systemd-oomd (out of memory daemon) terminating your VMs.
Check log! Monitor free memory when running VMs.

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16gb is not much, especially if you are a virtualization user.
but if you upgraded, perhaps you should reinstall? Too many complaints on 43 upgrades here.

I’m on the Fedora 43 KDE clean installation, using KVM, lots of software, all fine. Try this distro version? (I’m suggesting KDE vs gnome as it seems to be advancing better and faster).

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Okay,

So I would agree with the post above - make sure that the cores/RAM you’re reserving to your VMs aren’t overkill for your use.

Maybe try monitoring with top / htop / btop and identify where your resources are going when you’re experiencing sluggish behavior, etc. on host.

Additionally - if you’re open to the idea, I would consider one of the other Fedora spins if you feel like your hardware is limited or you want something more minimal. Personally, I went with XFCE. Much less resource intensive eye-candy & back-end processes than KDE, but more customization/freedom available out-of-box than Gnome IMO.

My Laptop has 16g RAM, I don’t have any issues playing around in VM’s, web browsing & even RuneLite at the same time. I don’t even have an independent GPU (Integrated Intel HD 5500) and a i5-5300U CPU from 2015.

I’m on F42, but I did recently spin up a F43 Server instance in KVM/QEMU. In my experience it’s quick, clean, and DNF is improved.

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Please show us your full system specs by capturing the output of the “inxi -Fzxx” command from the terminal. Please post it using the preformatted text button. If it says command not found, you may need to install inxi first with “sudo dnf install inxi”.

Looks like you have an Nvidia GPU. One thing I’m wondering is which driver it’s using.

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thanks for the answer i use virtualbox mostly . but i use kvm and qemu too they work perfect but in kvm qemu i cannot connect to my wfi only cabel works.

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thanks for the answer i will try

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i have tried top commands and it help me lot . but i use gnome and my muscle meory is in gnome and it is a little hard to move and adapt to new DE.

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System:
Kernel: 6.17.11-300.fc43.x86_64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc 15.2.1
Desktop: GNOME 49.2, GTK 3.24.51, gnome-shell, GDM
Distro: Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition)

Machine:
Type: Laptop
System: HP Victus Gaming Laptop

CPU:
13th Gen Intel Core i5-13420H, 8-core (4P+4E), 64-bit
Cache: L1: 704 KiB, L2: 7 MiB, L3: 12 MiB
Speed: avg 815 MHz (min/max 400/4600 MHz)

Memory:
Total: 16 GiB, Available: ~15.24 GiB, Used: 4.11 GiB (26.9%)

Storage:
Total: 476.94 GiB, Used: 312.51 GiB (65.5%)
/dev/nvme0n1: KIOXIA NVMe SSD, Speed: 63.2 Gb/s, Temp: 38.9 C

Processes & Power:
Processes: 409
Uptime: 7h 43m
Init: systemd v258, default: graphical

Packages & Compilers:
RPM packages: 47, Flatpak: 42, Snap: 5
GCC: 15.2.1, Clang: 21.1.6
Shell: Zsh 5.9

Graphics:
Intel UHD Graphics (i915 driver)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q (driver N/A)

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Looks like it must be one of those laptops that has both Intel and Nvidia GPUs. I don’t have one of those, so I don’t know for sure but I’m wondering if you need to install the drivers for the Nvidia GPU? I’m sure others can confirm what to do.

If so, this shows how to install them:

Another thing is I don’t know how you switch between Intel and Nvidia on those laptops. Is it possible it’s feeling bloated because it’s using Intel?

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thanks . i fix it . all this time it using nouveau and i fixed and performance become pretty solid

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