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So I have try to edit video: Pitivi, Openshot, and Kdenlive using Fedora 25 Pitivi : less feature, but has good potential, integrated to gnome Openshot : lots of feature, but slow, easy to install using Appimage, crashes sometime Kdenlive : many feature, user friendly, easy install using Appimage So my choice is using Kdenlive

I'm using Fedora 25 and Wayland without problem. But my discrete VGA is very slow. My laptop have hybrid graphics , internal is Intel HD 5500 and discrete is AMD R7 M260 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 5500 (rev 09) 05:00.0 Display controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Topaz XT [Radeon R7 M260/M265 / M340/M360 / M440/M445] By upgrading kernel to rawhide kernel (4.10.0-0.rc2.git3.2.fc26.x86_64) my discrete VGA run fast now: dnf config-manager --add-repo=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/rawhide-kernel-nodebug/fedora-rawhide-kernel-nodebug.repo  dnf update I'm using Dota2 to benchmark, Resolution: Full HD 1920x1080 , Video Setting preset: #2 from left: Fastest O--X--O--O Best Looking To run application using discrete VGA from terminal: DRI_PRIME=1 steam Or just right click on launcher and choose Launch using Dedicated Graphics Card Previously only 8 fps but now it can render as high as 42 fps 😮😃

By default only login is using fingerprint auth but not for sudo, to enable: Just run authconfig-tui and check Use fingerprint reader Then enroll your fingerprint using Settings - Users To enroll multiple fingerprint matches, do this from terminal: fprintd-enroll -f FINGERNAME Replace FINGERNAME with: right-little-finger, right-middle-finger, right-thumb, right-index-finger, right-ring-finger You can swipe same finger for all enroll

You can hibernate your laptop for faster boot next time. Hibernate is suspending to disk , so you'll need swap partition. I dont use suspend to RAM because it sucks battery. Follow these steps to make hibernate work using Fedora 25/24: Create swap partition or logical volume (LV) Common size for hibernating: RAM 8 GB  create 12 GB swap RAM 4 GB  create 8 GB swap RAM 2 GB  create 4 GB swap Format swap partition Check new created swap using lsblk -p For example: mkswap /dev/mapper/VG-Swap Add swap to fstab /dev/mapper/VG-Swap            swap            swap    defaults  0  0 Activate and check swapon -a swapon --show     #or swapon -s Recreate initramfs dracut --force Edit grub cmdline dracut --print-cmdline will print recommended GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX Add resume= and rd.lvm.lv= lines to /etc/default/grub (GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=) For example: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.lvm.lv=VG/Swap rd.lvm.lv=VG/Fedora24-root resume=/dev/mapper/VG-Swap root=/dev/map