Hi all,
Long time linux user, just moved all my personal servers laptops and my gaming system to OpenMandriva, there are a few things that I’m still setting up but so far it has been great. and yes Lunduke got me here!
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If you are having issues and would like help, can you please open a new Topic in Support - OpenMandriva forum instead of hijacking this one?
Correct. We are not other distributions and we make the decisions we make for a reason. Your data, and your access to it is only your responsibility.
I don’t see how this helps your concerns get addressed.
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Oh but it does! Trust, but verify. I fully understand that at this point there is no reasonable level of gurantee that every package in the base respositories actually work, making OMLx not to be relied on to ‘just work’, even fresh out of the box with no additional complexities like migrating existing user data.
Admittedly, that’s the nature of rolling release models like ROME, however with AppImageLauncher; bero kindly pointed out that it’s a known problem.
I’m really enjoying my journey so far. Before OMALx I was part of the crowd that avoided KDE and Flatpaks, but after diving in, I’m discovering that it’s really not bad at all. There’s a bit of a learning curve as with everything new and unfamiliar, but the distro is customizable and flexible enough that I can work around roadblocks with a little bit of initiative and creativity. I’m sure most of the new users are running in virtual machines, but I believe that if you don’t make the commitment and install it on bare metal, you’re more likely to dismiss it and go back to whatever you were using as soon as you find something in OMALx doesn’t work the way you expect it.
For me it’s less about the Lunduke thing now and more about having found a distro that fits with the way I like to work with my computers.
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Sacrosanct words.
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Here’s an Ansible playbook for you. My next step will be adding a second task that makes sure SystemD has enabled and started the correct services.
- name: Base setup
hosts: localhost
tasks:
- name: Install common packages
ansible.builtin.dnf:
name:
- ansible
- neovim
- zsh
- htop
- wget
- lynx
- btrfs-progs
- docker
- docker-compose
- zip
- unzip
- 7zip
- grub2
- iptables-services
- iptables-utils
- wireguard-tools
use_backend: dnf4
state: latest
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It’s invoked with the rather long-winded command:
ansible-playbook --connection=local --inventory 127.0.0.1, --limit 127.0.0.1 --become -K open-mandriva-base.yml
Applying a playbook to a fleet of servers is actually easier. You just list them and what they need (eg. whether Ansible will need the root password) in a second YAML file.
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Thanks for the Ansible example. That’s enough to get me started for sure.
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I have been here before; however, I am back due to Lunduke.
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With a name like @RottenFleshNopenSUSE you must have been an openSUSE user like me.
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@RottenFleshNopenSUSE
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Lunduke just did another video. It will release on YouTube momentarily. I figured you all might need a warning. 
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Like the others, I’ve come here as a result of Lunduke’s reports.
I have been using OpenMandriva Rome (25.01) since 9 January. It has been on my daily driver personal laptop since then, and I have used it for all of my typical needs.
As someone coming from the debian/apt ecosystem, adjusting to the new library package naming conventions, and some of the differences in the tree structure of the OS itself, has been challenging, but not insurmountable. I have been able to find most of what I needed with just a little bit of searching, and some help from the occasional friend.
I’m 93% of the way to being 100% confident in Mandriva. There are just a few things that need sorting:
- Getting Apache working correctly (the package installs don’t seem to configure it correctly). I can probably sort this myself.
- Getting Print-to-PDF (the cups PDF printer emulator) working correctly. This befuddles me.
- Figuring out why the native KDevelop package is broken for me (I had to install the flatpak as a work-around). This befuddles me.
- Getting Hypnotix working under Mandriva. This I can probably sort myself.
In any case, I am ABSOLUTELY LOVING this distribution, and wish I’d known about it sooner. It’s like a dirty little secret, a diamond in the rough, a needle in a haystack! THANK YOU for the effort you all put in to maintaining it. I’m very grateful.
Greg
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Your assumption is correct. Thought this username fit the bill perfectly.
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Thank you. Glad to be back.
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You also threw in the chameleon avatar. That’s amazing lol
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If you are going to give the middle finger, you had better mean it.
Just had to add a post to this monster, I missed the first video about this distro, so I’m here thanks to the latest one… I’m looking forward to see if my new company rig (System 76 Adder Ws) can be moved over to this distro.
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So glad I saw The Lunduke Journal video, as that is how I found my new forever distro. It’s OpenMandriva from here on out.
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Hello community,
I came here from Lunduke too. I was searching a no woke distro, no lgbt, no anti-white rules, no anti straight, no anti russian, no politics orientations, no deep state orientation… Just a clear and good meritocraty
I installed rome and i’ll stay. Before OM i was on Solus and tried many distros… OM is a Great distro, great community, great orientation.
it made me want to take part in this project (which I hadn’t done with the many other distros I’d tested before) and I started, at my humble level, to complete the French translation of the distro
Long life for you and Thank you for existing.
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