I got one more like for ya, I came long into this thread. I probably should read it all.
Yes that’s the antispam (default Discourse settings), common practice in any forum and such.
I already liked it when I read the whole thread (phew!), but you’re up to 47 now; 3 more to make 50.
Yeah $100 for a lifetime membership to Lunduke.com seems almost criminally low! I figure I’ll just auto-renew at $54 a year and give him some repeating income stream 
He’s on fire lately; really fun to read and listen to.
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Same here.
To be fair, I’m still a Gentoo fan and don’t plan on fully replacing it with OpenMandriva. They’re just different beasts for different purposes.
That said, I do intend to replace my (K)Ubuntu with OpenMandriva—mostly for my workstations and servers. Gentoo tends to crash things randomly, and that’s not cool for a job environment.
Ubuntu communities are fine, but I’ve never really felt connected to them. The gap between contributors and the project leads feels way too big.
So far, OpenMandriva works mostly fine right out of the box. A bit annoying that Telegram has a dark mode bug after install, but it’s not a dealbreaker. As a new user, that’s not the best experience, but hey, even Ubuntu has weird LiveCD crashes sometimes.
Good work, guys! I’d heard of OpenMandriva years ago from Linux Journal, but the “Mandriva” name never really clicked for me as I’m not much into Redhat/RPMs or French stuff (Mandriva SA). Still, after a week with it on my Asus Z13 2025, it’s running pretty well.
Keep up the good work! And stay out of politics—whatever side. We’re engineers; let’s focus on fixing things and let them work!
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Welcome! We are happy to see you here and hope you decide to make this your home.
I had that same Telegram dark bug on Tumbleweed. It persists here as well.
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You can always go with the Telegram Flatpak. That let’s you enable dark mode and customize things as needed 
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or also get the telegram binary directly from the website.
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I am late, but very glad I found out about this distro. If it wasn’t for Lunduke, I would still be unknowingly supporting the madness.
It was the fastest ever I uninstalled the Fedora and Debian installations and replaced them (bare-metal) on my family’s and personal laptop. I came from a BSD and illumos background, but needed Linux for certain conveniences.
My family and I have been using it for almost a week now and yes, OMLx is not and that is what makes it special. Solid as a OMLx Rock. The only issue I had with installing it from the LiveCD was that I had to run it under grub2 on both Dell laptops.
Very happy with the community and the distro and looking forward to daily driving OMLx for both family purposes and software development.
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Lunduke sent me. I was reminded about OpenMandriva from his YouTube channel. I’m glad I was, because it seems like a solid distro. Hi everybody!
I used to dual boot Windows 7 & Ubuntu, and I’d poked around in a few other distros. For a while I went just Windows 10, but once I was hearing about it going EOL, I happened upon Lunduke’s video and tried OM. To be honest, I had some trouble but I don’t remember what was wrong. I ended going with Devuan at the time (another Lunduke recommendation) for a while. I also learned, that life is simpler if you don’t use an nVidia card, and my family had an old ATI Radeon 5770 sitting around. Kick ass!
Anyway, this past week I gave OM another shot (iso was build 3896), and it went way better this time. The om-welcome menu wasn’t opening, but all I had to do to fix it was update the system. I’m a boring user who doesn’t need a lot of applications, and I was pleased to see nearly everything I needed in the base install. I added on keepassxc, also apparently in the Main repo, as well as the Brave browser, and I’m good to go!
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I’m not exactly new anymore. I’ve been running OpenMandriva Lx as my daily driver since February. I’ve been lurking around the forums almost as long.
Here is a history of my use of Linux.
Back in 2007 I started hearing about Ubuntu. I installed and dual booted Ubuntu along with WinXP. I did that for about 1 year, but I decided to stick with Windows. I didn’t want to stop using my favorite Windows applications even though I got some of them working under Wine. Still, dual booting eventually got tiresome. I gave up on Linux and wouldn’t get curious till much later.
In early 2023, YouTube’s algorithm started suggesting Distro Tube’s YouTube videos to me. I watched one video encouraging people to start using Linux, and starting with Zorin OS. I had a spare hard drive, so what the heck I installed Zorin OS. I ran that installation along side Win10 (separate drives). Pretty soon I was using Zorin OS as my daily driver, learning, and trying out new applications and such. It took me a good six months to get familiar with how Linux worked, but I was on my way.
At the end of 2024 I was feeling like I wanted to try something new. I tried different distros via live USB. Of those I tried Solus OS which was probably the one I liked best, but their forums (which I only read) wanted to assume that users have a lot of knowledge about Linux and programming, I am certainly not a programmer. So, I kept on with Zorin OS through December. In January, I watched Lunduke’s famous video in which bero declared a OPMLx a non-woke distro. Once again I had a separate drive, and so I started daily driving OPMLx.
The community has been great. I started reading the forums and learning as much I could. I submitted a request on Github for Pianobar which was fulfilled very quickly. I’m very happy to find this distro.
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welcome aboard
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I registered to thank you for your post and just say this:
I don’t see you as ‘from the other side’ because the sides are not defined by our different search terms on pronhub like those truly on the other side would want us to believe.
And with this I would like to welcome myself to OM then remind myself and all my fellow “I come here because some ?accidental? algorithm glitch sent me from Google tube” that the best way to proceed in our new found home is to shut up for now, before we attract too much attention and cause trouble for our OM generous hosts and start contributing 
Here here
Lol me too. The dude is hilarious
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