Abysmal UX on Fedora 44

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Working with the latest version of cursor on my fedora 44 workstation, i get repeated crashes of the IDE that eventually led to total system lockup and hard restart.

Steps to Reproduce

Use the ide on Fedora 44

Expected Behavior

It shouldn’t randomly crash.

Operating System

Linux

Version Information

will obtain soon - had to switch back to my macbook to get work done.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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Hey, to start debugging we need a few things. With only a report like “crashes on Fedora 44” there isn’t much we can do:

  1. Cursor version Help > About, as soon as you can.
  2. Wayland or X11 session? echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
  3. GPU and driver, especially if it’s NVIDIA with the proprietary driver, that’s a common source of Electron issues.
  4. Crash logs from ~/.config/Cursor/logs/ the most recent folders by date. We’re especially interested in main.log and renderer*.log.
  5. What triggers the crash. A specific workflow agent, indexing a big repo, opening a file, or does it happen randomly while idle?

A couple workarounds worth trying in the meantime:

  • Start with --disable-gpu cursor --disable-gpu If the crashes stop, it’s likely the GPU process.
  • If you’re on Wayland, try switching to an X11 session to test.
  • Start with --disable-extensions to rule out an extension host crash.

Fedora usually ships with a bleeding edge kernel and graphics stack, and Electron apps don’t always handle that smoothly. If you can narrow it down to a specific trigger or share the logs, I can dig deeper.