Yep I’m here from Lunduke too and I really like it so far. While I am a complete noob to Linux I’m not useless on a computer either. My old motherboard was giving me issues so I decided to install this when I put my new one in. I’m old enough to remember installing games on DOS, Ive jail-broken and replaced OS’s on Wii’s and phones so Ive done a bit of sketchy stuff over the years so getting this installed wasn’t too hard.
This is kinda gonna be a stream of thought of my journey to get here so no criticism is actually being offered in the next paragraphs.
I thought I was installing Rock but I got Rome instead. It must be something about the link on the wiki that got me Rome. The howto on the wiki recommended only Linux image writers but I didn’t have linux so I tried Balena Etcher which was super easy to use. Installation of the OS was very easy. For some reason Brave didnt want to install from OM Welcome so after a very brief search I was able to copy paste some stuff into the terminal and it worked great. Its nice to see LibreOffice so seamless here, I dont have to learn anything there. The struggle getting my printer working was all my fault. I went looking for drivers and locked her up good trying to install them. It turns out that OM recognized my printer in settings and installing the generic driver from there was too easy.
Now to get sound working. I thought this was gonna be hard since I get sound two different ways and both of them have had major issues on windows. Nope, No problems at all, OM recognized sound over HDMI through my monitor and through my external USB DAC that goes to my home stereo. Hey, the interface for controlling the sound just works great and is easy to use, much better than windows. KUDOS
Alright, let see how my monitor likes this. Get to the control panel and try 120 hz and I get super bad flashing that made me almost sick right away, back it down to 100 HZ and it works fine. I can live with that. It needed a patch in windows to get it at 120 so I might work on this later. Lets download Steam, yep that was easy. I suppose I better try and get drivers for my 1080ti. Hell that was easy too. I got drivers, lets try the refresh rate again and all good to go, I got my 120hz.
Hell, this has been pretty damn easy but I still got some stuff to do, I have yet to hook up my TV, throw a big hard drive in it, get a bittorrent client up and running and figure out what Im gonna do to replace CURA and FUSION360 for my 3D printer and if I can get all that I just might never need windows again.
Thanks for what you guys are doing here, Thanks for the OS and thanks for having me.
Fortunately you don’t have to replace Cura as it already has a Linux version (Prusaslicer, too). You can get it from the Ultimaker website, or search for it in the Discover application.
Fusion is a bit tougher. I learned in Fusion as well, but FreeCAD is probably the best option right now. It’s come a long way with the 1.0 release. Workflow and commands are a bit different, but the functionality is all there if you can take the time to adapt to it.
Its been anything but insurmountable so far, its been pretty easy. Ive read a bunch of the forum and if anything, its left me scratching my head about when people who come from other linux distros and complained.
Im sure Ill be asking questions when I get stumped but I haven’t been stumped yet.
Thats great to hear about Cura. I know it very well so thats just one more great thing about making the jump.
I am very much an amateur with Fusion and dont make complicated stuff but being able to model a bracket or some simple tool in 10 minutes and then sending it to the printer is mandatory. I wasnt looking forward to learning something new because even learning my rudimentary understanding of fusion was painful. So I dont have too much to relearn and it cant be any more buggy than Fusion.
I got my second full day in using it and like it even more. My 2nd wireless mouse and hard drive dock were instantly recognized and usable. I threw a brand new internal hard drive but OM didn’t pick it up. I figured it was like windows and had to be partitioned or something. I knew OpenMandriva already had a partition manager from when I installed so I searched and found it right away. The app was easy to use and now Im making a copy of my media drive onto my computer. So I fixed that problem without even searching for an answer.
Linux isn’t hard, it is just different that wimdows, and a lot of people find change to be hard. The best tip I can give you is to get comfortable with the idea of using the terminal. Some of the most critical tasks are still best handled by terminal commands.
Welcome to Linux and OpenMandriva, enjoy your freedom.
Anyone love Pink Floyd as much as I do? I’ve been collecting their concert recordings for 25 some years so having a torrent client running is a must. Since my last motherboard decided I didn’t need a working SATA controller anymore I have been a little behind and needed to catch up.
The first problem I encountered was actually getting the torrent file off the site and I knew this might not work well since I gave up on Firefox this install. Brave is really weird when handling these links and RavingAndDrooling.com is really weird about distributing and connecting to them so it just didn’t work. Since Chrome comes with OpenMandriva I logged in with that and was able to get the torrent files.
Ok let see what happens when I put it in Ktorrent, I load it up and it just wont connect. So, I can learn how to get this new app working for me or see if the one I’ve been using on windows for years and years is available on Linux. And what do you know it is, Qbittorrent installed just so easy right off their website and connected to the swarm without a problem.
Is this a ding on OpenMandriva for their packin torrent client not working out of the box? Not really, I was almost expecting for it to just work because almost everything else has. It would be nice if clicking on a torrent link in a browser just opened the right app like it does for FireFox on windows but I couldn’t find out how to do that with a cursory look. But it is working just fine so cant complain considering the circumstances.
Im about ready to do a big purge on the “Start Menu” or whatever its called here. I have way to many programs I will never use. Can I just hit right click and uninstall or is there a more proper way to do this?
Another successful day with OpenMandriva in the books.
Use the terminal, you will have a better time if you learn just a few commands. Installing and removing software is best done through the terminal, here is the wiki page on how to do it: Using dnf in OpenMandriva Lx | OpenMandriva wiki
OMG no!
In console: sudo dnf remove foo 2>&1 | tee konsole-remove1.log sudo dnf remove bar 2>&1 | tee konsole-remove2.log
etc.
I’d suggest remove a package/application at a time, until you are more familiar with the system and its management.
The above commands will make a per-transaction log for your documentation or if any need to ask for help. Feel free to change the output log filename as you wish, but make sure it will not be overwritten by mistake at least for a while.
so I get this, what am I missing
[uriah@openmandriva-x8664 ~]$ sudo dnf remove
bash: syntax error near unexpected token newline' [uriah@openmandriva-x8664 ~]$ sudo dnf remove <Ktorrent> bash: syntax error near unexpected token newline’
[uriah@openmandriva-x8664 ~]$ sudo dnf remove Ktorrent
[sudo] password for uriah:
No match for argument: Ktorrent
No packages marked for removal.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
[uriah@openmandriva-x8664 ~]$
