Just installed and I have a couple of issue (Installing .rpm package and window flickering)

Greetings. I have some experience with Linux, but it has always been with Debian-based distros. This is my first time using a Fedora-based distro. Everything has been working well so far, other than two problems. One; I use Windscribe VPN. They offer an rpm package for installation, but I can't for the life of me get the rpm package to install. I tried to open it with Discover and I get this error; "Could not open file:///home/user/Downloads/windscribe_2.9.9_x86_64.rpm". I tried to install via terminal with this command; "sudo dnf install ./windscribe_2.9.9_x86_64.rpm", and it appeared to work. The application icon appears in the Application Launcher, but when I click on it, I get an error reading "Could not find the program '/opt/windscribe/Windscribe' ". I have tried googling around for help, but have found nothing particularly useful. Two; I am experiencing a lot of flickering and visual artifacts with various windows. Steam has a lot of issues with various window elements or the whole window flickering, especially but not exclusively whenever I am resizing the window. Discord has the same problem, and even while typing this I am experiencing major input lag, which has made it a bit of a challenge. I would appreciate any help that can be offered. I have a Ryzen 5 7600 CPU, RTX 4070 GPU. I am using bazzite-nvidia:stable and I have installed all updates available through the system update application.
Solution:
For the flickering make sure you are using X11 for the time being, you can pick from the login screen
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Kyle Gospo
Kyle Gospo7mo ago
We don't have DNF rpm-ostree install file.rpm
Solution
Kyle Gospo
Kyle Gospo7mo ago
For the flickering make sure you are using X11 for the time being, you can pick from the login screen
Kyle Gospo
Kyle Gospo7mo ago
Bottom left or bottom right after selecting your user depending on your desktop environment
S A G E
S A G EOP7mo ago
Thanks, Kyle. You're a life saver.
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