I’ve been watching Lunduke videos for a while now and was delighted to see that there’s a distro that’s specifically insisting on staying non-partisan/non-political. So I decided that I had to give it a look. I currently have 3 machines I use regularly. A desktop and two laptops. One laptop is for gaming and only has windows on it. The desktop and other laptop are productivity machines and I have been running Arch on them for a while now. I just installed OM on my productivity laptop. My desktop is still running Arch but if I have a good experience with OM I may switch entirely. It’s most likely going to hinge on software availability. I prefer rolling releases and between the repos and the AUR Arch is awesome. I’m hoping for a similar experience with OM.
If you depend on a lot of packages from the AUR, you may find the repos lacking, due to the small size of the team here, but the devs take package requests and accept any volunteers they can get.
This is a French distro, how is the French translation not finished?
Hello Everyone…
We’re currently testing Mandriva in the office for a move from Manjaro, were not fans of the recent telemetry news out of this group and looking for somewhere else to call home.
Like a few other posters have mentioned…
The guys in the back office are having a few troubles sourcing printer drivers, but they’re currently researching workarounds. The HP(HP M251NW) business printers we’ve had zero issues with, it’s just the Canon TR150 PIXMA portable printers we use in the field where we’ve run into a few troubles.
My guys are pretty sharp, I’m sure they’ll sort something out.
Oh, and yes…this Lunduke character is how we initially heard of your distribution.
Best Regards,
Liquid Cool
P.S. If i could make a small suggestion to OpenMandriva’s team…
The tabs on the top right of your home page really could use one more tab entitled “Donate” or “Donations”, I had to search around quite a bit to find how to donate to your project and you’ve hidden this at the bottom of a very long page under the ‘Get Involved’ tab with one small link. It was easy to miss the first go around.
Might be worth the time to consider streamlining this process…
Yes, it should be easy to find on the website, but it is in the welcome app on your desktop. That was the first place I looked earlier today when I donated.
I’ve had good luck using IPPEverywhere for my Canon. I don’t use the scanning feature, though.
I also find that putting the printer(s) in my hosts file really helps. If you have a DNS server, this is not needed, but for home users it helps. If you have a firewall, TCP port 631 is for ipp.
WP…
Thanks for this…
Regards,
LC
Me too. Hello everyone and have a great day!
I also came here after hearing about this from the Lunduke journal. By way of context, I used Mandriva linux back in my university days in the mid to late 2000s then I moved elsewhere. In the intervening time I have used mostly ubuntu and pop os. i had seen the OpenMandriva distro on distrowatch and tried to download it but just gave up a couple of times. However, I was concerned about the focus on social engineering my many linux distro, so the video from Lunduke and the letter for the association prez did it for me. I have now been using OpenMandriva as my daily driver for the past two weeks as of late Jan 2025. lovely to meet you all and contribute to this community.
Good question 
anyways french translation is complete now
Also saw this distro in a Lunduke video, and I’m planning on installing it in a VM this week to try it out. If it does what I need it to, and works with my hardware, I’ll happily use it as a daily driver.
Hurray for software that I don’t have to worry is secretly pushing an agenda.
If you have a spare USB drive (32 GB or larger) or a spare USB HDD, it is better to install on that to get to your actual metal.
A VM will behave very differently from your actual hardware, and you can play around with it, without interrupting your existing install.
To install Linux to a USB Key (32 GB or larger) go to your partition manager and create a GPT partition table.
Also a Tumbleweed user coming here after hearing Lunduke’s video.
@gmgauthier @kaz @Brewmaster @Qlayton @stashan @Liquid_Cool @darth @jsamwini @flacharite @FriendOfEntropy
Hope I did not miss anyone 
Well, it’s French for the paperworks. Actually we have people coming from different countries, two of them are French.
I believe that it is a Plus on the matter of respect each others and friendship collaboration even if (or thank to) everyone carrying his/her background. Focusing on the common goal instead of individual egos.
Noted 
Thank you.
… and another one
Trying Rome in VM 1st (I know, I know 
) as I first must get over rpmhell PTSD from (very) early RH distros (pre Ubuntu IIRC). apt user for decades now, need to mess around 1st 
ditto’s …
Rome on a dedicated ProxMox box 8)
Hi all. finally I can use my computer with pride. non woke