Fedora is nice, i really like it , but... its a semi rolling release to test the packages from RedHat, things can break on Fedora.The first time a tried to install fedora 40 in VMware 17.6 there was a user balk install failure and I moved on. But I came back to fedora 40 iso w/gnome and installed it tonight without a peep. Very sweet! user very happy! I need to spend more time with it, but suspect this might be the perfect distro (for me). So far it does stuff the other distros do, only better.
for sure I need to run fedora for a month or so before I can have a meaningful comment, but short-term comment so far happy happy and I'm just scratching the surface.
Your issue might be the default audio "power-save" feature with the Linux kernel. you can try the following work around.Ugh, I just spent 90 min with chatgpt working on audio in fedora 40. Using both rhythmbox with an already downloaded audio file and streaming audio from youtube, the initial first 15 sec of playback pulsates, then smooths out all by itself to play perfectly. chatgpt suggested adding code to .conf files that did not exist or were blank. It seems WEIRD to me that playback autocorrects itself in the sense that if the code or formatting is wrong it should not play correctly ever. chatgpt was trying to figure out if audio system was pipewire or pulseaudio -- it appears to be pipewire. fedora should be installation default except I did download some more codecs at suggestion of chatgpt. any linux/fedora/audio engineers listening -- help! Once I survive the first 15 sec, the playback sounds perfect, I'd give up on audio if not for that...
Now, without rebooting test whether the issue has resolved or not. If it's resolved make the changes permanent by executing the below command and reboot.
wow! this sounds like a fix (pun intended) but no time to try it tonight, but will do tomorrow. I am optimistic. Meanwhile, this sounds like something chatGPT should have suggested since as you say it is in the kernel. I've been over-estimating how smart AI is or I need a better AI linux chat friend. I also did a quick skim search at fedora forum and did not spot this issue/fix.
I have made a change to my post. It's more clear now. Sorry for the inconvenience. Oh and one more thing, incase if it's found that the commands are not working, please check what kind of sound card you are having by using the following command.
In most cases it will be "snd_hda_intel". But if the command returns something like "snd_usb_audio", make the changes in the commands by replacing the part "snd_hda_intel" with "snd_usb_audio".
That's a bummer from AI, chatgpt ought have known that "Red Hat" (Wim Taymans) was the pioneer in pipewire. They coded it in 2015. Fedora 34 was the first adopter of pipewire in the year 2021. It's a blasphemy to check for pulseaudio in fedora in the year 2024.
good suggestions, but they did not work. unclear if VMware is an issue or if purely between pipewire and sound card? I've spent an inordinate amount of time on this issue. But I can say it's been a learning experience in one way or another: to pound head into wall, or not?
bubblewrap is far better then firejail and if you want a hardened version of Fedora there is one already here GitHub - secureblue/secureblue: Hardened Fedora Atomic and Fedora CoreOS images (already has bubblewarp and everything configured)I "upgraded" to fedora 41 and liking it, I guess its my fav. In the hardening context my lynis index is 77 and iirc @Vitali Ortzi mentioned Silverblue "atomic" so I created a new VM running Silverblue41 and its immutable linux architecture and using Gnome DE. Less than 24 hours running Silverblue, even though it is "fedora" it seems a tad restrictive, at least at first. I'll keep it, but now thinking to return to fedora workstationand maybe install wazuh.
PS Chatgpt suggested firejail could also run in Silverblue to firejail firefox, but that suggestion did not work correctly, not saying it cannot be done, but it seemed like Silverblue architecture crushed firejail, and would not properly load firefox. So for now ended up uninstalling (ostree firejail) from Sillverblue. (or how many sandboxes do you need, apparently 1 less
Redhat is free for personal use people who prefer it over Fedora can use it oh and you got images for all kinds of use cases
Wazuh is a nice seim but I understand it can be pain Wazuh pain pointsI "upgraded" to fedora 41 and liking it, I guess its my fav. In the hardening context my lynis index is 77 and iirc @Vitali Ortzi mentioned Silverblue "atomic" so I created a new VM running Silverblue41 and its immutable linux architecture and using Gnome DE. Less than 24 hours running Silverblue, even though it is "fedora" it seems a tad restrictive, at least at first. I'll keep it, but now thinking to return to fedora workstationand maybe install wazuh.
PS Chatgpt suggested firejail could also run in Silverblue to firejail firefox, but that suggestion did not work correctly, not saying it cannot be done, but it seemed like Silverblue architecture crushed firejail, and would not properly load firefox. So for now ended up uninstalling (ostree firejail) from Sillverblue. (or how many sandboxes do you need, apparently 1 less
thanks I'll look at bubblewrap! and at the hardened atomics, although I generally understood Silverblue was relatively hardened.
Firefox isn't a secure browser but it's okay on windows but on Linux it doesn't have as good sandboxing , mitigations Firefox and Chromium | Madaidan's InsecuritiesI understand (now) or read firefox flatpak incorporates bubblewrap... a better way in Silverblue...
