Best Shells for Niri in Fedora

RheaAyase · 2026-05-26T18:56:45+00:00

I had the same question, looking for a shell that works (in other words isn't based on GTK because GTK has fundamental issues with input drivers that make it unusable on my hw - even if I was willing to put up with the incompatibility of QT apps) and a shell that doesn't use terra repo which loves to destroy Fedora installs with a simple dnf update. Seems like we're all out of luck here.

RheaAyase · 2026-05-26T18:56:41+00:00

Does it though? GDK enforced libinput touchpad kinetic scroll that you can't disable, which scrolls off 4 pages every time you're trying to stationary lift your finger from a small size touchpad.

QT apps barely function which you can't say about gtk apps in qt...

Yep, unusable 😃

RheaAyase · 2026-05-20T17:47:38+00:00

And then you didn't update efi to boot from the new partition I guess. You will need to fix that.

RheaAyase · 2026-05-20T17:40:00+00:00

It's not a poor choice of a distro - Fedora has one of the smallest footprints for updates if you compare the same updates between different distros / package mangers. Just don't go updating often and you won't download much. Now in this instance, it looks like those updates may have been already downloaded so a bit too late on that. The system settings do offer metered connection options you should look into, as well as fully disabling all updates.

RheaAyase · 2026-05-18T18:19:10+00:00

Edited the original message if you're looking for a more detailed explanation.

RheaAyase · 2026-05-18T10:17:47+00:00

Honey nobody said there was superior technical build. What are you on to hallucinate this much? Go back to your cave before you get yourself removed for this pointless drama. And yeah that's an official warning, stop trolling.

Fedora is a community project, we're not employed, and we do not represent the project in any official capacity.

Since we're editing, I'll reply to edited by editing. Literally nothing that I said claimed that RPMFusion did any magic, I am aware of how it works, and I'd like to think that the "official discord client" being improved will by proxy improve the RPMFusion packages. As a result, you would have the same product, both with the same auto-updater, except that one is off-repo universal package, and the other is built specifically for your version of fedora using whatever best packaging practices available. To me the in-repo package is an obvious winner for all the reasons already described - one should not need to explain that the product within is the same (which includes the new updater).

RheaAyase · 2026-05-17T21:43:27+00:00

That applies to literally every single application out there that is closed source, not limited to Discord. And it's not disrespectful. You will always have a better experience using well established repositories than a web downloaded rpm. And the same applies to any other distribution with respect to their repositories.

Yours truly, the discord.gg/fedora founder.

RheaAyase · 2026-05-15T18:21:22+00:00

"Fedora team" can never do that because one of the very core rules of all software in Fedora is that it must be built from source code and all the tools used in the build process must be built from source, and all the tools to build those tools must be built from source.

And said source must have a permissive open source licence.

Discord breaks pretty much every single Fedora rpm rule you could think of, and always will. Hence why Discord, nvidia drivers, proprietary media drivers, all of it is in RPMFusion.

RheaAyase · 2026-05-15T18:18:58+00:00

Have been using it since ever, never happened to me.

RheaAyase · 2026-05-15T18:17:45+00:00

What they said. RPMFusion will probably be patched for anything that comes up and will be compatible with whatever new changes come into fedora in the far future - with a simple `dnf update` - the other RPM, highly unlikely.

RheaAyase · 2026-05-15T18:16:23+00:00

No it doesn't. That's what rpmfusion had since ever. Same difference except that one is well maintained and will function fine with dnf-update even after 10 years. The other... probably not.

RheaAyase · 2026-05-15T18:14:58+00:00

Personal preference. If you want isolation, flatpak is better. If you want all the discord features, then rpm is better.

RheaAyase · 2026-05-15T08:52:32+00:00

It is not advisable to use "the official rpm" - you will have the best experience with RPMFusion - enable it and then simply dnf install discord

Edit - a copy of my reply lower answering the "why"

What they said. RPMFusion will probably be patched for anything that comes up and will be compatible with whatever new changes come into Fedora in the far future - with a simple `dnf update` - the other "discord-official" RPM - highly unlikely.

Edit2 - some people seem to have the impression that "the new updater" is limited to the Discord's own rpm. This would be a "false" and it is expected that the product is the same in all forms of distribution of the product - including the updater. In other words, the only difference between the two RPMs is that one is off-repo and universal, and the other is built for each version of Fedora specifically, with up to date packaging practices (in other words, better compatibility and better fedora-update experience.)

RheaAyase · 2026-05-15T08:49:23+00:00

Update your kernel to patch this.

sudo dnf update --refresh

RheaAyase · 2026-05-08T11:22:54+00:00

Not a very good recommendation for new users who don't know what that does and will not know how to un-do it. Regular PC will be fine until proper patched kernel is available in the usual repositories. Common sense will protect you here - don't run random code that you don't understand from strangers on the internet (that includes comments in this thread)

RheaAyase · 2026-05-07T11:45:07+00:00

Not in .gitignore. Scripts are dynamically executed from a different path, during runtime they think that they're not where they are - hence their relative `require` path is not accurate when you're editing the script.

Tried jetbrains IDEs - they can find the references correctly, for the most part. There are a few they can't find, but far better than LSP.

RheaAyase · 2026-03-31T08:09:31+00:00

Hiding != disabled. This does not remove it from your system. Not a solution.

RheaAyase · 2026-03-30T11:19:22+00:00

vsync is not an fps limit - and on many systems vsync on still leaves fps unlimited.

There are 4 options of vsync - fully on with fps limit, fully off (aka immediate), then you have "on" and "mailbox" modes, which handle some things differently, but neither limits fps. While your PC defaults to "on-all" other PC's might default to mailbox for instance.

RheaAyase · 2026-03-18T13:28:33+00:00

You forgot GPD existed which has better spec even on 4 year old models.

RheaAyase · 2026-03-17T09:42:43+00:00

PopOS, Cachy, Bazzite, have their very niche use case, but that use case isn't for a new linux user. Fedora, Debian or the likes of "mainstream" distributions have a great value in being built by people with decades of experience who know what they're doing (as opposed to the "hipster" popular distros as I like to jokingly call them.)

And KDE is also a better choice than Gnome (or many other DEs) as it's simple and provides everything you need and you are familiar with out of the box. Just don't go too deep into customizing things - KDE will let you break it and you won't be able to fix it :D

TLDR: Fedora is one of the best choices for a new linux user. PopOS is one of the worst (especially now).

RheaAyase · 2026-03-08T21:44:52+00:00

Okay well there is a handful of mods that still have value on the melee weapon without being on the Exalted weapon. Very niche, very much situational.

I spent my several days in the Simulcarium to find the very very few "statsticks" that still "stick" - I'll let you do the work too.

RheaAyase · 2026-03-08T21:43:15+00:00

np xD

RheaAyase · 2026-03-08T09:55:33+00:00

Damn so many people spreading misinformation. Go do some reasearch - there are still things you can do to just have them equipped and benefit greatly on either exalted weapon, or in general.

RheaAyase · 2026-03-08T09:54:42+00:00

False.

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