As the title says I have a similar problem to many users after installing the nvidia driver on Fedora 41. My problem is made worse by the fact that now neither the terminal, nor nautilus, gnome software, etc are able to start, so I’m unable to even try any of the solutions proposed in this forum. Does anyone as an idea how I could solve this?
I did find a solution, although it might not be the simplest one.
Using an other pc , I created a bootable usb stick (with fedora writer) to boot into a functioning system, where I could open the necessary apps (terminal, text-editor and files).
I then applied the solution from this forum post manually Latest Gnome apps not working in fedora 41 using wayland - #14 by bheerssen
I had to input my passwort to decrypt and mount the drive in gnome files. I could then manually add a gtk_renderer.sh file in the directory /etc/profile.d/ with a single line export GTK_RENDERER=gl written in it. After saving the file and rebooting into my fedora installation, apps could be started again.
An alternative that has been mentioned several times is to place the same line GTK_RENDERER=gl (or ‘ngl’ or ‘vulkan’) into the file /etc/environment
Can’t you just open the tty (e.g. by using Ctrl+Alt+F3 shortcut) in order to do this? I used it in order to fix this exact problem