Just wanted to say I made the switch yesterday from Windows 11 to Fedora Linux, no dual booting. It took multiple installs though because the first two times I followed old instructions for installing the Nvidia drivers. The third time I found out that I can just install them through the software center when third party repositories are enabled and that worked like a breeze.
And I have to say it’s a really good thing that the installer for Fedora is getting an overhaul soon because Anaconda is horribly confusing in its UX.
Edit: just wanted to add a hyfetch screenshot:
I built a new PC recently and decided to go with fedora as well to see if I liked it. I have amd and saw multiple things saying drivers on Linux are different and you don’t need to update them. Is that true?
They’ll update when you update the rest of your system, using whatever software center app you have or
sudo dnf upgrade.Ok that’s what I thought, but just wanted to be sure. Thanks!
This, and they also generally don’t require a reboot. Especially with the dnf method.
I dunno why the software center forces you to reboot for updates, but it’s typically unnecessary.
There’s two different ways to update modern Linux system, either you apply the updates directly or you wait until the next reboot to apply them.
Fedora KDE allows you to choose which method you want to use when using the software center UI:
Because it’s more stable.
The big drawback of updating immediately is that you might end up with incompatible packages. Any application that is running while an update for it is installed will keep using the old version until the application is restarted or the system is rebooted. The kernel and some system applications never exit, that means that they will keep using the old version until you reboot.
You generally don’t need to mess with drivers on Linux with desktop oriented distros.
One exception is Nvidia graphics cards IF you want to game. They’ll work fine out of the box but for full gaming performance you’ve gotta install their proprietary drivers. (And this is slightly harder on Fedora due to their more aggressive anti-proprietary policies.)
I found it was pretty easy once I knew how ^^
Just enable third party repositories during the setup, search for Nvidia in the Software Center and install the drivers and follow the instructions displayed, done.
I had heard that Nvidia doesn’t play well with Linux which is one of many reasons I went with amd
It works but can be more finicky