Welcome to both of you. We are glad to see you.
@shloader please start a new thread in Support to get that issue opened.
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Iām going to do that now that I have a little more information about it. Iām not adept at digging into logs but Iād like to help where I can.
-edit. Fixed it. I thought samba server was somehow unstable post boot, but then it occurred to me āmaybe itās not even autostartingā. To used to Ubuntu for a file server. After systemctl enable smb my file server is rather perfect now. This is all taking me back thirty years. Exciting!
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Iāve used Conectiva Linux back in the days. Then the merge of Mandrake and Conectiva happened. I was so interested in learning that I tried Slackware, Debian, Suse Linux stayed with the last until Ubuntu came. After it I started using Debian and hopped to Devuan, then Artix and Arch. Now I am very pumped to start using OpenMandriva. Iām from Brazil and, yes, I heard about OpenMandriva from Lunduke, I believed the project to be dead with the end of the Mandriva distro. Oh boy, how wrong I was. Lets see if this will be my new favorite distro! I glad switch if it works for me!
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Welcome. We are glad to see you.
We are quite proud of our OM-Welcome app and it is the safe place to add repos and do updates when you are getting started.
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I nuked all my Arch servers and Manjaro workstations, OM is now my main.
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Iām impressed!
I like to use a default system. Let me learn a lot with the RTFM technique, a lot of tinkering and break and repair loops and if after all that I (and my machines) survive, it is possible I do the same. Iām actually excited!
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Have fun! Just remember it is not like any other distro.
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Did you say Arch SERVERS?
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yes I did, pretty stable to be honest, for what those were doing, NAS, Apache and a couple of J2EE for work related purposes. I started a project for IPTV but did not got far on that but going to pick it up now with OM, I know I should have use other distros, but I really do not like anything Debian based, I was a slackware user for many years until like Slack 13 due to Patrick taking out HAL for some odd reason, So arch was it.
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I was not happy this evening to see Lundukeās latest video about Arch going the political route. I have been a very happy Arch user for a while, but Iām not going to support partisan politics where it doesnāt belong. I took a look at OM when his first video about OM being non-political came out a couple weeks ago, that really appealed to me. However, the first machine I tried to install it on was a laptop with an Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU and I couldnāt stop the 2 minute logout issue so I decided to lurk on the forum and wait until that issue was resolved. Last week I stuck an extra SSD in a little lenovo thinkcenter I had kicking around and installed ROME just to try it. It seems to be working fine on that. I have a Framework 16 with an integrated Radeon 780M and discreet Radeon RX 7700S. Iām going to try it on it tomorrow. I hope it works because itās my primary machine and at this point I want to switch. I think I can get all the software that I use installed on OM. It will be a little more trouble than it was on Arch but Iāll figure it out and if I canāt Iāll ask for help.
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I hope you get it working as you want on your main machine. If you have any trouble please do open a new thread in the Support section so your troubles can be addressed and resolved. Welcome to OpenMandriva!
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I too can blame Lunduke for landing here. I didnāt leave Debian because of the OS, itās great, but because of the political direction. After playing around with OpenMandriva Lx on an old Lenova Z510 notebook for a few days, I backed up my rock solid Debian Bookworm desktop, wiped the 2 SSDs, and installed OMLx Rome KDE/Plasma6. Itās my daily driver and so far Iām liking it a lot. DNF is very similar to Apt and dnfdragora is almost a twin of Synaptic so itās almost a non-event to move from one to the other. Before Debian I was an Arch user, BTW 
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Hello, so I am not alone, Lunduke is making quality propaganda for OpenMandriva.
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I am here in spirit, but have not found a viable replacement feature-wise like SteamOS or Bazzite. I like the features of both, but could live without the Atomic Filesystem. It would be awesome if someone had a spin with all the features of these other distros but with a OM team spin. I donāt trust Bazzite for much longer to get help, once they find out my politics.
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This is a small distro. We donāt have all of the spins working properly, so there are not enough devs to get around to starting another spin. If we keep growing, that may change.
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From what Iāve observed in my limited testing, Gnome appears to be solid.
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I will say, I did install this on my Framework 16. System works fine, but I am struggling to get it to launch my games on the discrete graphics card.
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Iām holding off on installing it on the Framework until Iām sure that I can get all the software I need running. This morning I installed OM Rome on a Lenovo Thinkcentre 910q mini PC that I wasnāt using for anything and have been working from it all day. Itās a I5-7500T@2.7Ghz with 16G of ram it has an integrated Intel HD 630 GPU and a 512Gb SATA SSD. Iām not even running an NVME drive. So itās no powerhouse by any stretch of the imagination, and so far Iām very happy with how well OM is running on it. I have a Brother DCP-L2550DW printer/scanner and I DLād the rpm drivers from Brother and had it printing and scanning in less than 5 minutes. That never happened that fast with Arch even after I had done it a couple of times. If I could get Terminator or Ghostty working Iād be completely sold.
Same here. It was tough staying with Slackware when so much new technology was coming down the pipeline and being picked-up by the other distros that I couldnāt resist the temptation to distro hop away from Slack. Mandrake was definitely one of those hop-worthy distros.
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