Came here from OpenMandriva

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Ha ha! jk

Hi everyone

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Hey! Welcome. Nothing wrong with OpenMandriva that a little elbow grease can’t fix :smiley:

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Welcome!

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I’ve not tried OpenMandriva yet,

Who has? Did you stick with it? If not, what did you go to and why?

What did you find to be the pros/cons?

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Typing this from OpenMandriva Rome. :wink:

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Typing from OpenMandriva Rome.

When Rock server images become available, perhaps I could look into migrating my home server to it from Debian.

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That’s awesome! Tested OpenMandriva and it’s an excellent option. Welcome!

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I’ve not tried OpenMandriva yet,
Who has?

I tried it the evening after watching that Lunduke episode talking about it.

Did you stick with it? If not, what did you go to and why?

I installed it on my laptop (was running Arch). Was able to finally get sound working because of OM. Sticking with it!

I installed it on my main system(also Arch), eventually. Had issues with UEFI for some reason. I eventually got it. I couldn’t get my Canon ImageCLASS MF465dw working as there were no drivers for it. Even after installing the official Canon drivers RPM, I get a filter failure so I had to switch back to Arch for some printing I needed to do. I’ll get it working eventually now that I don’t have an urgency hanging over me.

What did you find to be the pros/cons?

pros:

  • good selection of included features
  • easy to use dnf and rpm package managers
  • easy to select repositories to use
  • good decision on ungoogled-chromium browser
  • everything (except my silly printer) just works

cons:

  • Setting up a printer was a little confusing at first. References to utilities that don’t appear to exist or that I have no idea how to find. (I’m planning on documenting my next install and providing for qual improvements).
  • The whole UEFI thing was a drag
  • The dnf GUI utility needs some work. Can’t resize the window. It’s freakin huge! (TWSS) And, it can be difficult as a first time user to “get it”. Looks a bit ugly, IMHO.
  • The docs are good but could be better. I hope to help out in this area too.
  • I think a newbie guide would be good to have - something to handhold a newbie thru every aspect of PC prep, installation, explaining what everything is (repos, KDE vs GNOME, vs. etc., and more). I’ve been using Linux since '94 (Slackware!) and so I’m somewhat comfortable with most things -still, some things are new to me.

All in all, a great distro that I plan to contribute some time to.

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It has been my main OS off Qubes since the Lunduke video. So far minimal issues or tweaks. But, as a new dad, my computing has dropped to idle games and muted streaming :yum:. Mandriva feels like Endeavor in that it stays out of your way, and installs minimal junk. Popped vscode on it, git, flatpak, and some other goodies and i have no complaints. Runs pretty nice on the Framework out of the box. I will keep it around.

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I’m on OpenMandriva Rome. There are a couple things that don’t work as well as I hoped:

  1. @2disbetter (or an imposter) pointed out that the fingerprint sensor isn’t working on the Framework 13
  2. I was having issues copy/pasting with the Brave flatpak on Wayland (moved to X11)
  3. Sometimes when it locks automatically it doesn’t show the password unlock screen. I think it’s there, technically, because I can type my password and unlock it, but it just shows my mouse and a black screen. :man_shrugging:

Overall I like it, so I’ll probably stick with it. Most of what I need for gui applications there’s a flatpak for, and so far (knock on wood) I haven’t needed an application that there wasn’t a flatpak or in their repository.

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That is me. I am not sure it isn’t working on Rome, but I know it is not working on Rock. You can install all necessary things and KDE acts like it has a fingerprint scanner to work with, but the fingerprint daemon (fprintd) keeps being halted. There is so kind of conflict and systemd keeps stopping it. While it is running it works. I think it is only a matter of time before this is resolved. It is also the ONLY thing that isn’t working out of the box.

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Thanks for the reply and for “planning on documenting my next install and providing for qual improvements.”

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That’s good to know it works well with the Framework computer. I’ve been considering getting one.
Framework is teasing something new on Feb 25. I’ll wait to see what that is, but the current 13 in laptop looks good.

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I liked it well enough that I accepted moderator status when Rugyada offered. I admit, when she found out I was retired and a lot of free time, she saw that as a plus.

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Wooot!

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Did OMLx ever fix the appimage launcher bug?

The one on znver1 builds where just installing the launcher would break userspace, making all appimages exec error unless manually extracted. (didn’t appear to be an upstream issue)

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The fingprint scanner is now working on Open Mandriva and the Framework 13. I put the details in the previously mentioned thread:

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