Today I tried out both Fedora 42 KDE Beta and Fedora 41 KDE from a USB stick and even tried to install it, but unfortunately my mouse cursor freezes for a few seconds all 1-2 minutes. The OS is almost unusable for me and thus I can’t install it.
The image is okay, I left the default boot option where the image is validated.
I already use GNU/Linux (Zorin OS), so I never had this problem before. I didn’t have it as well when I tested PopOS with the new Cosmic Desktop.
This could be an issue with the live installation not having proprietary drivers.
NVIDIA did not use opensource drivers for a long time, so nearly all currently used GPUs need nonfree, proprietary drivers which are not included in Fedora by default.
I recommend to try a variant like Aurora, get the ISO for an NVIDIA GPU. Or try and install Fedora onto a secondary SSD and add the drivers after installation.
But using something like Aurora (which is in the group of atomic-desktops ) is easier, as the drivers are preinstalled and preconfigured, something that Fedora cannot do.
It turns out that Aurora is a so-called immutable distribution. While I like this idea, I don’t think it is the right thing for me because for instance it seems it isn’t even easily able to install a custom theme from the KDE theme store. But I really wanted to try other themes.
I’m having the same issue and I have a 4080. It’s driving me crazy and making Fedora pretty much unusable because of random 2-40 second hangs. An immutable distro isn’t really a valid answer for a desktop solution as that is gonna cause other issues.
I know its probably NVIDIA’s fault, but it is still so frustrating. You think you can just install Fedora in 2025 and it will work out of the box but then still all these struggles
It’s been death by a thousand cuts for me with Fedora 41 (I’m on 42 Beta because 41 feels like a Beta anyway).
I decided to give it another try now that KDE is becoming a full supported version, and it’s just been tons of small issues over and over driving me absolutely mad, and the latest updates (to 41) just seem to be breaking 2 things for every one thing that gets fixed
You need to be more specific. Do you compare it with other distros? Have you even tried something like aurora with proprietary Nvidia drivers installed from the beginning?
Are you able to install the system and then switch to the proptietary drivers manually?
Btw especially with these drivers you should use atomic variants. They are one of the biggest cause of bugs we get here
I have the system installed, but am having the exact same issue as John is on the stick, along with a bunch of other issues with what should be my normal daily driving work desktop.
I have had both EndeavorOS and Manjaro as my daily desktops for over a year each, but wanted to move closer to the Red Hat tech that I use for work daily, so I thought I’d use Fedora. It’s been nothing but a struggle for the past month, with things constantly breaking, and problems I never even came close to encountering in the last 3 years.
e.g. I have to unplug and plug in my keyboard and webcam every boot because the system doesn’t know they are there. Neither of those accessories are different, so it’s something in this particular system, but I have to put those little annoyances aside while I try to figure out why my OBS Virtual Cam which was working a week ago, stopped working in Firefox at first, but after updates, won’t even start up in OBS or other programs (and that’s something I use daily).
Maybe those are broken in the other distros right now, but it wasn’t a month ago in my Endeavor install. So now I’m wondering if I’m just knee deep in sunk cost fallacy.
It is not something that Fedora can fix. But there is work going on to put full nvidia GPU susport into the linux kernel. That work is not expected to complete for a year or two.
See nova driver project.
Edit:
The user has to install nvidia drivers, like the rpmfusion nvidia driver.
It cannot be done by default becuase of nvidia licensing issues.
