After years of wanting to switch to Linux, I finally made the step up to doing so recently. After playing with Ubuntu years back with a live cd, I recently have the opportunity to upgrade my laptop and instead of just partitioning a single drive to Windows and Linux, I installed a second NVME drive and assigns the first drive as windows and then the second one as fedora. Upgraded my RAM to the max and upgraded my battery and life was great…
Knowing that this is going to be a massive learning experience, I’ve been trying to take it with a grain of salt and step by step. I am in no means a power user but I do have a good understanding of how windows runs and I’m trying to learn Linux so but be it as I may. I am a complete noob so please for lack of better terms explain it like I’m five. I still don’t understand running shell or basically everything I read about Linux just confuses the hell out of me. Anyways…
My first issue came up a week ago after I shut my computer down from updating windows and later that day went to go log into fedora and did so successfully but the internet wasn’t working at all. I was able to finally figure out that windows fast boot was interfering and found a way to disable that…
Well, a couple days ago I decided to try and make plasma KDE. I think it’s called look a little nicer and so I switched the appearance to a darker theme and I found a login screen that looked really cool and finally got that installed through discovery I think? And for a little back info when I installed Fedora I set it up to be encrypted and then my username has a password. So today when I went to go log in I got thru the encrypted Password just fine. And then it loaded this new login screen that I got from the discovery app I think? And it lists my username and I went to go enter my password which is six digits long and all numbers and of course the numlock didn’t activate it which I originally was trying to fix when I started the whole finding a new login screen. So I activated numblock and entered my six digit password which is all numbers and is correct as it’s the same one I’ve been using on my Windows for years and it’s telling me it’s incorrect.
It is not incorrect. I know for a fact it’s correct. I found some topic on here that said something about a broken keyboard. My keyboard works completely fine. I’ve unchecked or checked the view password box and verified. It’s the same set of digits and I can log into Windows just fine and type just fine…
The only somewhat relevant answers I found are saying something about launching a shell and entering Sudo and all this stuff. I still don’t understand and I’m pretty sure don’t apply to me.
Can someone please tell me wtf is going on, and help me get back into my laptop,
I’m sorry to bother anyone but I’m really trying to learn here dispite my dyslexia and memory issues I just can’t seem to grasp things like I used to, but I’m trying
I have a bunch of photos and documents in there and I really don’t want to lose them having to re install the os again. Any help would be appreciated, and in sorry in advance if I have no idea what the hell your talking about as I feel my answers are going to be a lot of “what’s that, how do I do that, I have no idea what you mean?”. So please be gentle in trying. Thank you, I appreciate it
