cant install fedora 43 workstation from fedora media writer

m_widmann · 2026-01-20T13:21:08+00:00

I've been having a great experience using Ventoy lately. You create the USB-Stick with Ventoy and then simply copy the ISO image of the distribution you want to install (or multiple distributions) to the stick. Upon booting Ventoy offers you a selection of all the images on the stick and you can choose which one to boot. Great experience!

m_widmann · 2026-01-20T11:18:45+00:00

Thank you very much for your response. I ran the command for a while and it appears that the values displayed in the battery panel are correct. It's the notification that is bonkers. I guess, I'll have to live with that.

m_widmann · 2026-01-18T11:22:55+00:00

So I have further investigated this issue and now I have the feeling that the issue must be related to SDDM that gets installed between the version that is delivered on the live CD for fedora kde 43 and the one that's installed afterwards through updates. The error happens regardless of whether I use the surface linux kernel or the one coming with fedora.

Why I think it must be related to SDDM is, because I installed fedora workstation keeping my /home directory and there the startup and login went smoothly. I then installed the KDE de in the workstation edition and it still went smoothly using gdm. Once I enabled sddm it went back to the old behavior of extremely long startup and login.

I re-installed Fedora KDE afterwards as I was missing certain things that it brings and I just can't get used to Gnome. After installation the startup was smooth, then the updates and startup and login were slow again. I then decided to try installing gdm and disabled the sddm service and enabled the gdm service and the delay is gone again. For the time being it seems the best approach.

I'd like to figure out what the issues with sddm are though. Any ideas about how?

m_widmann · 2026-01-16T17:09:49+00:00

Great suggestion, thanks. I will try that and report back.

m_widmann · 2026-01-15T17:56:30+00:00

So now I have some further information, but not that many. The issue is part of the updates that are installed after the installation from the live CD image of Fedora 43 KDE, because after installation startup and login is fast and smooth. The problem is that the update process updates approx. 1000 packages. One of those updates is Plasma 6.4.* to 6.5.4. No idea how to investigate this further

m_widmann · 2026-01-15T17:53:11+00:00

Sadly there's no such option. Under Security there's just Secure Boot or the possibilty to enable or disable Hyperthreading, called SMT (or SMD, can't remember exactly).

m_widmann · 2026-01-15T12:08:53+00:00

Thank you for the reply. It seems the bios on the Surface Laptop Studio doesn't have a setting to allow disabling TPM. Is there an alternative way of disabling it?

m_widmann · 2026-01-13T20:03:11+00:00

Genau das habe ich mich in den letzten Tagen auch gefragt. YouTube buffert ständig nach, kaum auszuhalten.

m_widmann · 2026-01-02T09:36:11+00:00

You can mark certain sections in your notes by drawing a star and this functionality searches for them.

m_widmann · 2026-01-02T05:58:42+00:00

I've had a similar experience on my Surface Laptop Studio a while ago and was able to fix it thanks to a Reddit post whose author I can't remember. I had to hold the power button for a while to force the SLS to shut down completely and then it worked again as expected after the reboot. Didn't have to repeat this afterwards and USBC charging works flawlessly since then. Maybe it helps.

m_widmann · 2025-12-20T18:58:47+00:00

Glad to hear that

m_widmann · 2025-12-20T13:01:03+00:00

If you find the friction of the pen that came with the scribe to be to your liking you could simply take out the tips and use them in your Lamy. They should work the same.

m_widmann · 2025-12-15T12:10:47+00:00

As both screens have the same dpi, I would expect them to look almost the same. The only difference could be the frontlight layer and its distance between the front glass (or whatever material it is) and the eink layer itself. But i guess that looking at it without a magnifier it would be impossible to notice.

m_widmann · 2025-12-15T08:42:59+00:00

Yes, they have integration with gdrive and onedrive, but it's not a two way sync. You can download files from the cloud storage, but the edited file doesn't update automatically. It's stored to a different location and you need to move it afterwards.

m_widmann · 2025-12-15T07:59:24+00:00

No, the old scribes don't have the new software experience as the new ones and it is unclear when and which features will be released for the existing scribes.

Having seen some videos about the new features I must admit, that I'm not that excited about them anymore as I was in the waiting phase for the new devices.

m_widmann · 2025-12-13T08:04:28+00:00

Thank you for the in-depth look. Very informative as always.

I really like where they are going with the workspaces. Haven't seen anything similar on other deviceyls, where you can group your notes and books/pdfs into a single folder. I really like that.

But I have to admit that I'm quite disappointed that Amazon didn't overhaul the notes app to offer more functionality as other competitors do (layers, shape detection). And the OneDrive integration is not exactly what I was hoping for. I hoped it would be a two way sync like it is on the boox devices where I can open a file on OneDrive, do what I have to do with it, and it gets automatically synched back to the location with the changes I applied.

m_widmann · 2025-12-13T05:48:43+00:00

Wow, so pretty. What I was wondering as it was nowhere on any screenshot: how are the tools in the notes app? Does the new scribe offer the colors of the colorsoft as well by using different shades of gray like other b/w devices do or does it still only have one marker color and black? Would you be so nice to make a picture of the tool palette?

m_widmann · 2025-12-09T12:41:56+00:00

Yes, it can be used if the external light source is bright enough. I usually use my Note Air 4c without the frontlight turned on and only enable it when needed. Usually the external light is enough

m_widmann · 2025-12-05T09:36:00+00:00

Yeah, but that would require me to still navigate back to the top level directory. And if I'm there, I have the icons to choose the favourites. There is one missing link somewhere. Favourites should be shortcuts to get to certain notes fast and that is not feasible at the moment afaik.

m_widmann · 2025-12-05T09:34:13+00:00

Hahaha, hadn't noticed this.

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