First of all, hello! I’m new to the forum, I know Fedora normally comes with GNOME installed but I don’t want it to come with GNOME, is there a KDE version? I mean I want it to come with only KDE installed instead of GNOME after the installumb is finished.
There’s a KDE based image.
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When I install it and burn it to USB with Rufus I get an error like GRUB config I tried 2 days ago.
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What should I use?
Fedora Media Writer would be the most direct solution.
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Well, I want to ask one more thing. I installed Arch linux a few days ago. And after updating the Nvidia drivers, I couldn’t get my screen above 60 HZ. My screen is normally 144 HZ, but after updating the drivers, I couldn’t touch the HZ value again. And there was an extremely cramping feeling on the screen. Probably the same will happen when I use Kde Plasma Wayland with Fedora. How can I avoid this, I’m a beginner.
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It sounds like that was a result of the updated Nvidia drivers? You can’t really influence that, if it happens they usually fix it in a newer version of the driver.
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I even installed the latest version, the 560 version. and my video card is GTX 1060. My friend uses kde plasma wayland with ubuntu, he has no problem, he can update his drivers and use it like a dream. It doesn’t work for me. it’s ridiculous
If you install fedora plasma we can help you get the nvidia GPU working.
We recommend you use the nvidia drivers from rpmfusion. See Howto/NVIDIA - RPM Fusion
If you have secure boot enabled then there some extra steps to perform before you install the nvidia drivers RPM, which is also docuemented in that Howto.
So the steps I expect you need to do are:
- create a USB installer for Fedora KDE spin using the Fedora Media Writer.
- boot the USB installer and install Fedora KDE
- Setup a secure boot signing key
- Install the nvidia driver RPM
- Wait 5 mins for the nvidia drivers to be built in the background
- reboot
- Log in to kde desktop
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I burned the plasma version to USB with fedora media writter but after selecting fedora 40 in the grub menu it gives 2 errors.
do you still use Rufus?
use Fedora Media Writer or maybe Balena Etcher.
I also had boot issues with Fedora ISOs though
I also tried with Balanca Ether and it doesn’t work.
Then use the officially recommended method, on the page where you get the ISO…
wait sorry, this is actually an issue with the Spins website (apart from it being hidden a lot).
you need to use fedora mediawriter
Where exactly is the recommended method written?
yeah I remember it was better and every site linked to Fedora Mediawriter downloads
Umm. I can install normal fedora, the fedora that comes with gnome, but I can’t install the kde version, it’s ridiculous.
you need the mediawriter tool that is only linked on the workstation install page.
it is also linked on the Atomic Desktops page, so I never noticed that.
the writer is just a tool that works better for Fedora. it also deals with downloading ISOs but wont install GNOME
Spins are core Fedora + Desktop.
From your previous post I understand you use MediaWriter. Did you use MediaWriter to download the iso as well, or was it downloaded separately? In the latter case, from where was it downloaded, and did you verify the download using the CHECKSUM file
My copy of Fedora KDE version 40 is
SHA256 (Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-40-1.14.iso) = 8b9da20cfa947b16c8f0c5187e9b4389e13821e31b062688a48cf1b3028c335c
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true, didnt read that