I am getting a new computer for an elderly and to be able to support it, I'm removing the Windows and want to install a #Linux distro. They have previously used Ubuntu Budgie for about 4 years. Which one of these distros do you suggest for lower maintenance burden in the long run?
@Mehrad
I think you should clarify #fedora atomic desktop, not server or workstation. #bluefindesktop and #Kinoite are specifically designed for low maintenance.
Why dnf upgrade on #Fedora 39 shows me red lines of packageName replacing packageName (name being the same), but only for some? I know a thing or two on Linux #packaging, but not RPM.
@John_Livingston
Une mise à jour récente ?!?
Il y a peut-être un sujet à propos du passage de certaines distributions Linux (#Ubuntu, #Fedora...) à #Wayland au lieu de #X11 pour le rendu graphique...
One of my absolutely favorite Linux utilities is "sshfs", that allows you to mount other machine's file systems locally over ssh. I use it everywhere, between Linux machines, Chromebooks, and even sometimes Windows boxes. Absolutely brilliant and incredibly easy to setup and use compared with various other file system sharing models.
I decided to try building #FreeCAD from source. I used a F39 toolbox on my #Fedora 40 #Silverblue and installed the prereqs; most from packages, but pyside2 from pip (inside the toolbox) since it hasn't been packaged in Fedora for years. The segfault I'm getting from libshiboken isn't illuminating to me. I could imagine a missing dependency on a package causing a segfault, or maybe no one is building FreeCAD on Fedora and it just doesn't work on F39. 🤔
Not clear that I'm close enough to the beaten path for this to be worth a bug report, though. Quite likely PEBCAK...
I have tried #Plasma6 on my #Fedora laptop. Seems all great, but I reverted back to #GNOME. I prefer the simplicity of GNOME. Yes, you can keep Plasma simple as well, but I am too tempted to tinker with all the possibilities there. Looking forward to try out #COSMIC deskop one day, though. But GNOME has been my daily driver (on my personal laptop) for more than ten years and I keep it pretty much in its vanilla config. Most of my work is done in the terminal anyway.
Today we have @Conan_Kudo back on the podcast, the plan was to talk about Change proposals but that happened 2 hours in so have a listen to see how we got so side tracked #Linux#Fedora#openSource#foss
FOSS - ensuring even new hardware stays in use when vendor-support eventually ends!
Whether or not you install GNU/Linux on it today, your new #Mac will eventually lose #Apple support. Thanks to the impressive work of #Asahi#Linux project (@AsahiLinux), it will not need to end up in the landfill once it does.
I'm a novice on Lattice2, so I'd appreciate testing of all the functionality of the workbench both on recent development builds and on stable FreeCAD. I want to make sure that the fix is complete and correct on both stable and development versions before suggesting that it is ready to merge.
If you use git to install workbenches, you can do something like this if you want to test and help:
cd .local/share/FreeCAD/Mod/lattice2<br></br>git remote add johnsonm git@github.com:johnsonm/Lattice2.git<br></br>git fetch johnsonm<br></br>git checkout johnsonm/mkj-attachment-support<br></br>
Feel free to comment on the pull request itself or here, I'll see it either way.
Just spent today at work with Linux. Fedora's Mate spin still works well generally, and Orca is much more stable. And, according to Orca, the system never even ran over about 3 of the 16 GB of RAM on that Intel NUC. I set up Emacs and Emacspeak, Firefox, Bitwarden, VS Code, and never even took my laptop out of the bag. Of course, I really miss a lot of NVDA addons, like the OpenAI one, sounds for entering browse and focus modes, and the Thunderbird addon most of all. But I was able to log into, and use, Salesforce and Google Sheets. So now when I get a good workflow with Markdown and such, I think I'll just about, maybe, be able to start using it more. Packages are all up-to-date, Orca will alwasy be current, and hopefully I can one day move to a desktop environment with a proper notification center! Oh, and I'll have to see if Pidgin still takes up more RAM the more I use it.
Note that I still wouldn't expect a regular computer user to get into Linux, as far as setting it up. But, honestly, having the #BTSpeak out on the market makes me hope that more power users and programmers will hammer Linux into more of a shape that blind people can be at home with.
As we make our five (now four) year plan more concrete, we want to come back to the high level goal and measures that help us to understand what we are doing, why, and if we are being effective.
TL;DR - We’re going to double the number of contributors who are active every week.
I was so happy yesterday! I had a desktop computer that had been sitting around my house for several years, and I decided to bring it back to life. I bought a new NVIDIA RTX 4060 card and a new case for it. I transferred all the old components to the new case and fired it up, installed Fedora Silverblue, and even played a bit of Fallout 4 at full graphics settings. It was such a breeze!
However, today when I tried to turn it on, I think the motherboard just gave out. Looks like it's time for a new CPU, motherboard, and memory.
For the fellow nerds out there, what would you recommend? I'm looking to play some games and compile Rust code.
My boss and I were talking more about how to convince vendors to care about uploading firmware for their devices.
Another suggestion is something like https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/pull/7219 -- to allow us to collect data to say to the vendor '12,345 Linux users are not getting firmware updates for model ABC' which is a bit more convincing than throwing our hands in the air and mumbling about Linux market-share.