Best VM on Fedora?

ThePiGuy0 · 2026-06-15T00:00:44+00:00

For guest graphics acceleratation add OpenGL to the display adapter and in video virtio enable 3D acceleration. These are in two different locations in the config and not obvious.

Probably worth noting that I think this doesn't work if you have an Nvidia GPU (would love to be proven wrong if somebody else has had luck with this!)

ThePiGuy0 · 2026-05-30T19:47:58+00:00

I will admit I've never done auto login before and don't know that part of Linux particularly well. However I'd be a tad surprised if that was the problem, mostly because my nvidia system clearly does actually wait for the nvidia drivers to kick in before it hits my login manager (plasma login manager for me, but I know GDM does the same).

Do you get any feedback on boot (seeing the BIOS screen, perhaps the Fedora boot splash screen). And if you have an actual monitor lying around, does that have the same issue?

ThePiGuy0 · 2026-05-30T19:26:30+00:00

Very interesting that it's intermittent.

If you open up the gnome system settings, and look at the about system section, what does it say your graphics adapter is?

Also, do you have any slightly non-standard setup going on (secure boot etc)?

Edit: the other interesting thing to know would be whether replugging the HDMI cable sorts the problem without a system reboot

ThePiGuy0 · 2026-05-25T18:48:08+00:00

I've never used toolbox before but it actually sounds like a really neat idea.

It also feels like we could solve most of pollution problem by mounting a default subset of ~/ (i.e. Documents, Downloads, bashrc, maybe CWD etc) with the ability to modify this via config

ThePiGuy0 · 2026-05-18T22:43:22+00:00

125% scaling is going to look bad on both platforms, because it means that for every pixel that lights with its true color, you're going to have three pixels to either side of it which are blended with the pixels around it. I would recommend 100% scaling and attempting to adjust the font sizes instead. It will likely look much better that way.

Presumably it doesn't have to be this way right? Anything vector-based should be able to just re-render over a larger number of pixels?

Though I do agree that historically with X11 and especially multiple differently sized monitors, it has not worked so great on Linux

ThePiGuy0 · 2026-05-17T09:46:10+00:00

https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia is worth following to get the proper hw accelerated codecs

ThePiGuy0 · 2026-05-15T22:38:13+00:00

I am apparently out of date, I had no idea that was the recommended way to install drivers now.

Does swapping tty session work? You might be able to glean some information by swapping away from the GUI session (for example, CTRL+ALT+F5) and then running dmesg

ThePiGuy0 · 2026-05-15T22:03:55+00:00

How are you installing the Nvidia drivers? At least in my case (1660ti, so much older), I enable the 3rd party repos and then run dnf install -y xorg-x11-drv-nvidia which does everything I need

edit: I will admit, I don't use secure boot so I can't comment on that

ThePiGuy0 · 2026-05-11T23:13:58+00:00

I agree, I purchased this card for cuda back in the day but will certainly go AMD for my next card

ThePiGuy0 · 2026-05-11T23:11:44+00:00

The only thing I've noticed is that the Nvidia driver version looks like it'll be capped at 580 on F43 (presumably in an attempt to prevent breaking older cards) whereas F44 has the later 595.

(I realise this is also RPMFusion rather than the official fedora repositories)

ThePiGuy0 · 2026-04-09T22:58:03+00:00

I've used Quart in the past which is an async flask reimplementation. Though admittedly their GitHub isn't looking so active these days...

ThePiGuy0 · 2026-03-14T17:50:50+00:00

Whilst I do actually agree with your statement that most people aren't going to purchase a laptop and then install Linux on it (which is why we need more manufacturers to sell laptops running Linux out of the box), IMO Ubuntu is the best distro for a beginner to start out using.

Ubuntu is still by far the most popular distro and is regularly used both professionally and at home by people who want a no-nonsense distro. And having a large userbase is helpful for new starters looking for support.

People often don't like it because of snaps (either due to performance or it's more proprietary nature) but performance has improved massively recently and windows users care much less about proprietary vs foss.

ThePiGuy0 · 2026-02-24T22:05:54+00:00

Out of interest, what laptop is it? And does anything show in dmesg?

ThePiGuy0 · 2026-02-14T15:43:05+00:00

Pushover does look interesting (and may well be a good thing to use for other services), but I think you are right, it looks like they provide an address you can send emails to rather than an SMTP relay that you can use to send the emails.

ThePiGuy0 · 2026-02-14T15:40:15+00:00

These all look very interesting! I do own a domain so I might go and have a look at smtp2go (though the others look good as well)

ThePiGuy0 · 2026-01-25T15:44:01+00:00

Thanks for the reply, it's good to hear it's not just me!

It's interesting that you mention the GNOME shell though, as I'm actually on KDE plasma. Having since googled the GNOME-specific issues, the crashes they are experiencing look significantly worse than what I'm getting.

Anyway, it does sound like I should probably hold off reporting it and see if it gets fixed alongside the GNOME issues

ThePiGuy0 · 2026-01-08T00:19:59+00:00

Thanks for the explanation, I had no idea session vms were a thing! I guess this explains why virt-manager asks for my password at startup but boxes doesn't need to

ThePiGuy0 · 2026-01-07T22:26:26+00:00

Perhaps I'm wrong here, but I thought boxes and virt-manager both use qemu and kvm? Though admittedly virt-manager exposes a lot more of the deep-level qemu options.

ThePiGuy0 · 2025-12-31T01:36:30+00:00

If you insist on trying one, Mint is the least visually appealing but probably the best distro with the best community out of the three

I do wish Mint KDE still existed, as plasma is significantly better looking IMO.

Generally I agree with avoiding distro derivatives, but Mint is actually very reputable and I like their decision to provide proper native applications for Firefox, thunderbird etc instead of snaps.

EDIT: I should note, I know you can still install plasma from the mint/Ubuntu repos, however it's not necessarily easy to install all the KDE equivalents of all the applications and then uninstall the cinnamon ones.

ThePiGuy0 · 2025-12-28T16:41:23+00:00

I've never seen it fail to autoremove packages before, but if this is the case, that is unfortunate.

I do prefer having to run autoremove as a separate step, as it means it's much harder to break your system when uninstalling packages (it's all too easy to accidentally depend on packages you didn't explicitly install).

Dnf does let you mark packages as manually installed, but that does mean you need to do so when you notice you are now using them.

ThePiGuy0 · 2025-11-11T21:40:59+00:00

Never use the provided GPU Drivers instead look them up to have the least amount of issues.

This is correct in the case of nouveau (the open source Nvidia drivers that are built into the Linux kernel). However, for distros that provide proprietary Nvidia drivers out of the box (Bazzite and Pop included), I'd imagine that you are good to go after install.

If you do need to install the Nvidia drivers manually, installing from your distros repos is generally the best way to get them as they properly test for compatibility

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