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Installed Fedora 40 on a new Ryzen 8740u machine, I cannot believe it that everything working by default, video, audio, even sleeping working like a charm.

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It flies on my new AMD 7800X3D custom build!

Fedora 40/Wayland worked beautifully out-of-the-box with buttery smooth DE animations which unfortunately started flickering after installing NVidia's proprietary drivers which should be fixed with explicit sync [1] in NVidia's latest 560 drivers which is now available in KDE Plasma 6.1 update, hopefully it'll be available for Gnome in a system update soon - looking forward to running Wayland again.

[1] https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2024/04/05/explicit-sync...

Right. I think I experienced similar issues on a Lenovo Legion 5 pro on Fedora 39. What I uninstalled Wayland and installed Xorg instead. Not sure if it's going to work for you.

Did you consider Pop_OS? What made you choose Fedora? I went with Pop but I’ve always been curious about Fedora and really impressed that Wayland is working so well for you on Nvidia.

Quite simply, Fedora is by far the distribution with more paid developers, and that certainly shows.

I started using Fedora from more or less 2 decades ago. There was tones of different issue though. But it got much better since 18 or 19. I have upgraded it all the way to 40. There was one issue around Intel display driver which I had to enter console and uninstall the update. But other than that, I hardly had anything to complain about. Did not switch mainly because of VisualStudio and games. Windows 11 put the last straw onto the camel's back. Haven't tried Pop_OS yet, probably will try it someday if I got time.

I initially started with Ubuntu to run the curated Desktop tools in DHH's new omakub.org but Wayland was broken in Ubuntu, Network Manager would frequently hit 100% CPU freezing the OS and it didn't wake from suspend.

Considered Pop!_OS but they're running an older version of Ubuntu and are in the middle of transitioning to their new Rust Cosmic Desktop which I figured would be immature at launch.

I ended up going with Fedora as IMO it was the more bleeding edge with new software, e.g. Wayland by default and their new Atomic Desktops look like they could be the future.

Excellent, thanks. This will be front of mind if the Cosmic transition goes tits-up. For now I’ll just keep mumbling the mantra to myself: trust in System76!

Never liked Ubuntu. It's just a Debian variant that lost its way.

I installed it on my ThinkPad T520 and the Bluetooth is unreliable and restart doesn't work. When I try to restart the laptop it looks like it powers down but then it displays an error message and hangs before it reboots.

Previously the laptop had Windows 10 on it and there were no Bluetooth or reboot issues. Unfortunately, Windows 11 doesn't work on it and 10 is rapidly approaching EoL.

Haven't tried BT on my machine. It looks the drives were loaded correctly and there were no errors or warnings. But that shouldn't be really a big issue as the WIFI/BT on my machine is a Intel AX210, which is easy to obtain. I guess you can simply get one if your machine has a slot for it. I don't really have a T520, so cannot really tell if there were any other issues. To be sure what was the problem, you will need to read the error msg. Sometimes the error msg you see might not be the root cause. And also, you did not have hardware issue before does not mean you don't have a hardware issue now...

I've bounced back and forth between Fedora and Windows a few times in the past month. Windows has no reboot or BT problems.

The machine has previously had Ubuntu on it, but that was a few years ago. Ubuntu didn't have any problems so either it's Fedora-specific or kernel or driver changes since then are the root cause.

It's most likely a driver issue. It depends on the nature of the issue. It can be as easy as turning some optional/3rd part repos on or as hard as debugging and fix in source code. I've done enough the later, and thus would simply steer away from that route. Intel cards seems to be supported pretty well. But it depends on the distribution. Last week I actually bounced between 3 distributions: Open Suse Leap, Debian and Fedora. OpenSuse failed to boot after installation, Debian lost all network config after finished installation and rebooted.

I remember the CPU model wrong. it's 7840hs actually.

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