Former Mandrake User

I was probably gonna hold my nose and install LMDE until Lunduke’s video reminding me of your existence. Finally a place where merit and common sense reign supreme.

I installed Rome, everything’s been great for a couple weeks until today it refuses to see my access point and now I gotta post this from win10. *sigh

I used to help run an eggdrop net on efnet back in ancient times to protect the #mandrake channel. I’d never consider myself a Linux expert but advanced maybe in the old ways. I started back when we wrote our own .x11 config files by hand with a CRT spec sheet handy. I prefer console to gui for most things.

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Welcome. Sorry to hear about the AP. If you want to create a topic in Support for it, we can certainly help you there, or we have a matrix chat. There is also a telegram room bridged to matrix, but the bridge can be slow.

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Welcome!

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I will search for clues before opening a ticket - old school I know

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Welcome! I think you’ll be happy you made the switch.

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Welcome to OpenMandriva! Sorry to hear of your WiFi trouble. Stick around, we’ll get you working again.

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That is still the best approach for problem solving. Very much appreciated in this corner.

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Welcome Cobratek :slight_smile:

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Welcome Cobratek Ron

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I was waiting on this day :slight_smile:

I just got a new gaming laptop, an Asus TUF 16 - Ryzen 7 with Radeon 7700s 64 Gigarams
It came pre-loaded with win11-pro but I nuked windows first thing, this machine has never loaded M$ crud :smiley:

Rome installed without a hitch and runs so nice. Yeah baby!

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Welcome to OpenMandriva

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This is how it’s going:

Installed Starfield via Proton and it went flawlessly. All I had to do was set quality to Ultra instead of low.

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My goodness, is that a screenshot from a modern game? It’s amazing. I haven’t done any gaming in 10 years, so my memory is stuck in 2014-2015’s graphics. That screenshot is truly stunning to me.

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Since you liked the first one … here is one outside a spaceship, sitting in an electric buggy.

The graphics are amazing … we’ve come a long way from the 16 color CGA days

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you are a proper nerd my friend!

hey old mandrake user, would love to hear your thoughts on how OM is similar and different to ol Mandrake. does it feel just like being back in mandrake but with more modern DE? (although i guess ur a console/terminal guy so maybe not much has changed)