Had the same issue trying to run OMLx ROME from Ventoy. It crashes hard in the loading script.
Had to flash it, to it’s own drive. (Used the Fedora Media Writer)
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I came here after watching the Lunduke video too. I am pretty excited to get started. My daily driver is long overdue for a nice refreshing reformat and this has lit the fire under me that I needed. I think I’ll install Rome. Never used KDE, like many in this thread, but may try and give it a whirl. Some quick searches seem to show its pretty well liked.
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Ventoy changes some things in openSUSE installations, so it could impact the install process of OpenMandriva as well.
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I also came here from Lunduke. I was a Mandrake user maybe 20 years ago. I have been a Fedora Linux package maintainer since 2015, I see that some of my Fedora packages have been imported into OpenMandriva already.
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Same
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I am also just trying OpenMandriva for the first time after using NixOS for the last year or so. I would be interested in seeing your Ansible setup, if it’s published anywhere, as I’ve never used it before, but been curious to try it.
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I cheated dnf’ing Sway on top of KDE without wiping KDE afterwawrds, so i didnt have to mess up with dbus, polkit, or pipewire. I installed wofi, and waybar - got a waybar .config from here and tweaked it - Examples · Alexays/Waybar Wiki · GitHub - for the rest flatpak was an absolute savior… I flatpak’ed essential stuff like copyq and cavasik.
From what I see in my short time here, they could use your help as a maintainer.
I wish I knew how to do it, but I am not a coder.
We all started somewhere.
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Do you have to code to maintain packages, or can I follow steps to build them and put them in the repos? I have manually installed packages from the AUR and understand how to look at the build file to make sure a package is not going to blow my system up.
I am a 30+year I.T. tech and I just retired. I have too much time on my hands. 
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If you have written scripts in the past then spec files will look somewhat familiar. The package authoring and building is pretty straightforward. You mentioned Arch pkgbuild’s so you have a little exposure. The build process (and potential errors) is always a challenge, but we do help in instances where people get stuck.
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Package maintenance is something I could probably help as well. I haven’t done it before, but used and understand AUR packages and since I can code it should be understandable for me.
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The SPEC files used to build RPMs are easy, but you need to know how to build the software + its dependencies. A good project will have that documented + will put the files in the correct location during install step.
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I certainly don’t want to break things or bite off more than I can chew, but I want to help out here if I can. I guess helping on the forums counts too.
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Not all packages are compiled programs. For instance clitest is only copy file to the correct folder.
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Testing your favorite applications before they end up in stable channels is also a good way to contribute.
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Definitely. As far as biting off more than you can chew, you won’t know that until you are in it. I know @ben79 would be thankful for the help in whatever capacity.
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Here because of Lunduke. Hello! I am a long time Debian and Fedora user on the Linux side of things.
Looking forward to trying out OpenMandriva. I’m not at all political about tech, and I am glad to hear that this distro isn’t either.
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Heck yes
As IT experts go I am a retired printing pressman.
If I never bit off more than I could chew, or got out over my skis, or… but I did and here I am for better or worse.
Helping users on the forum
Helping users on OM-Chat
Testing, just use the stuff you use and report problems, learn how to file proper bug reports with logs, sometimes if you keep up with devs in OM-Cooker Chat channel reporting when something works is a huge help
Helping less technical users gather logs
None of that is hard, it can be time consuming, but all of that is easy to learn just by doing.
As one learns, of if you already are a more advanced user, having a Cooker VM or partiton to test the newest stuff is tremendously helpful, getting accounts at GitHub and ABF so you can help with simpler package management stuff. Automated Build Farm — a fair amount of what we do there is just knowing how to navigate, what to type where, and clicking icons
There are plenty of people on this forum with more computer knowledge than I have. I might know more specific to OpenMandriva because I have been around since Mandriva (QA-Team) and was a charter member or OpenMandriva Association.
For those that want to do more development or advanced stuff in package management please go to OM-Cooker Chat and talk to OM devs there. They can explain what they do better than I can.
OK, time to put the soapbox away.
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