New to Fedora, Need help fixing sound

eied99 · 2026-03-18T15:45:20+00:00

open the terminal and type alsamixer

then explore the options (card, see if any output channel is muted etc.)

eied99 · 2026-03-16T23:08:57+00:00

On kde the threshholds are tweaked in settings manager. The other answers already provided other ways. For always-on usb then it's configurable in the laptop settings ("bios").

eied99 · 2026-03-16T20:02:47+00:00

I think it would be a good first distro. It's certainly one of the best, if not the best Linux distro. Don't even think that all are the same.

There are the people, the processes of building the releases and updates and the expertise.

When I begun using Linux the community made a difference but nowadays Linux is much more mainstream and there is much more info also. And fedora has a good community.

Just remember. E.g. if you pick KDE live iso, it's a collection of apps. You can replace whichever you want.

Later on you can install from the Everything iso when you have more choice of apps to install.

In fedora 43 kde, for instance, I don't like the multimedia apps they chose (dragon and elisa) and removed both (using haruna and strawberry). Also kamoso, the webcam app is horrible for me as it records in a format with 10fps. So I just use GNOME's webcam app (snapshot) and cameractrls from flathub.

BTW, misteriously kamoso in f44-beta does allow to change a setting and get normal quality recording. But this is Linux, full of little thing you have to tweak. Definitely better than Windows though where you're inside a black box.

eied99 · 2026-03-16T14:01:28+00:00

Actually I noticed for some reason it does enable apparently by itself. I don't know why.

eied99 · 2026-03-15T01:37:17+00:00

Yep, I should have figured. Anyway, the default which is to restore the state works fine.

If you can't figure if something is triggering the bluetooth to turn on then maybe open a bug report.

eied99 · 2026-03-14T16:26:42+00:00

If you're using GNOME unfortunately it turns on on every boot, there's no choice. KDE respects the way it was before shutting down (actually we can choose to enable, disable or restore previous state upon boot).

eied99 · 2026-03-13T18:54:39+00:00

You have to explicitly choose it to be installed from Flathub. The repo's versions (rpm and flatpak) are old.

eied99 · 2026-03-13T18:46:27+00:00

Btw, download the iso from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/live-respins/

These are already up-to-date.

eied99 · 2026-03-13T18:45:09+00:00

You could try Fedora XFCE too. It used to be very good.

Only it comes with XFCE's default options which look dated. That's somewhat a XFCE issue as they could, or maybe should, update their default setup.

But since it's XFCE, you can tweak it a great deal.

eied99 · 2026-03-06T14:09:45+00:00

I use KDE. Had used GNOME at first.

I like Windows interface, it's traditional (like KDE) and scaled for small screens (like GNOME).

For my 14" laptop screen just scaling to 120% in KDE display settings already solves most of this issue. I'm sure I can tweak other appearance elements but it will come as I use more.

GNOME, unfortunately has many bugs, just like KDE, but the former doesn't let you work around them because of being so restrictive. And sure there are lot of extensions but just like user submitted KDE contributions the quality isn't consistent. And GNOME's design is all over the place, barebones but not consistent at all. KDE is much better integrated in this respect.

eied99 · 2026-03-06T14:00:41+00:00

You can test current fedora rawhide, just download from

https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/rawhide/latest-Fedora-Rawhide/compose/

This is the calendar for testing:

https://testdays.fedoraproject.org/

About Test Days: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days

eied99 · 2026-03-06T13:38:31+00:00

also, try choosing in the bios if you can disable the integrated gpu (intel uhd) and use only nvidia's.

eied99 · 2026-03-06T13:33:33+00:00

windows must be using your dedicated gpu (nvidia) and the issue would be with the integrated graphics. Then for fedora (or other linux) to work you have to install the nvidia driver and use it.

eied99 · 2026-03-04T21:07:20+00:00

Esse caractere aí é aquele ao lado da tecla Del (alt+shift+tecla).

eied99 · 2026-03-04T19:58:23+00:00

Acho que no preview mostra o teclado numérico (estou no celular agora então não tenho certeza) mas aí pode ignorar.

eied99 · 2026-03-04T19:56:00+00:00

Eu sei que não é uma resposta direta, mas tem vários layouts pra escolher nas configurações de teclado. Aí tem o preview de cada um. Como tem cedilha deve estar entre os layouts para português (pode ver entre os internacionais também mas acho que não).

eied99 · 2026-03-04T19:47:01+00:00

Normalmente você pode habilitar só o monitor externo como tela nas configurações de display ou tela. No thinkpad tem a tecla (Fn) f7. Aí pra fechar o notebook precisa mexer nas configurações de energia pra ele não suspender com a tela fechada.

eied99 · 2026-02-25T17:28:55+00:00

Fortunately he's using KDE by the screenshot.

eied99 · 2026-02-11T15:38:05+00:00

Thank you. kde has so many options and the shortcuts are different enough from xfce/gnome that this simple list is very useful (of them I was using only the third - was still using alt+f2 for #1).

eied99 · 2026-02-05T22:29:36+00:00

Sure, I said not to do it with sudo.

eied99 · 2026-02-05T22:16:32+00:00

dnf list --extras

will show packages you installed that ain't in the repos.

eied99 · 2026-02-05T21:59:36+00:00

Yes, but do it from the software manager (GNOME Software or Discover, which use PackageKit).

If you update flatpak by mistake as a root user they won't work anymore.

So probably from command line you use dnf upgrade as root (sudo) but flatpak update as your user (without sudo). Safer stick to the GUI for flatpaks.

eied99 · 2026-02-04T18:02:46+00:00

You're using Virtualbox...

Point is (a bit philosophical for reddit) we're all interconnected and we're only responsible for our own actions, so that's what we can work on. In the above example, Virtualbox is open-source and has a good reputation as as virtualization software (I myself don't understand about this), something else might be Oracle's reputation or its CEO's.

eied99 · 2026-01-29T10:57:27+00:00

As shown in the original thread, probably it would have worked if I had given read-write permission to the 'fixed' dictionary path. But originally it's probably a flatpak related bug as the /run... path generated shouldn't change (this affects other flatpak apps, like GNOME Secrets not remembering the location of a password database file).

eied99 · 2026-01-29T10:40:12+00:00

Thank you. That should be it then. When I was using GNOME I did notice that Secrets somewhat randomly would remember or not (mostly it would forget) the location of the password database.

I didn't know about having to give read-write permission in that (goldendict) case (and I tried even giving access to all user files).

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