That’s how I installed it, as soon as OML Rock was installed.
I’ve been using it since then with no issues at all.
But where is the fun in that? – Probably more than once on Monty Python.
This morning, as a test, I was just trying to see what happened if I tried assorted methods to install Brave to see if it crashes for me. I didn’t test it from Welcome after I found out it crashed when installed from DnfDrake.
Something else that I wanted to mention is that last week I needed to write an ISO file to a USB thumb drive. Normally I installed a third party tool like Etcher to do this. After looking around for a pre-installed tool I decided to just right click on the ISO file and see if there was anything promising. And there was! Actions -> OM Image Writer
I don’t know who wrote this and put it there, but that is very slick and much appreciated. Thank you.
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I did the one-click install from the OM-Welcome screen using Rome.
I’ll try removing and reinstalling in the terminal.
I recall reading that thread a few months ago, but forgot about that thread. Was the Brave crashing issue resolved? I get the impression that it was not. But @WilsonPhillips posted that he installed from the terminal and had some luck keeping Brave stable.
Someone once told me that when dealing with Linux, when all else fails, use the terminal. At least then the user will get feedback, even if there is a crash.
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I have never had Brave crash.
I think the trick is to embrace Vanilla.
OML is much more pwerful than windows, easy (for me at least) to move files between devices, etc. But…I have a somewhat antiquated vanilla system, and I stay between the lines re customization. KDE/Plasma 6 is fine, dark themes, pretty backgrounds, etc. So far, I have gotten pretty much everything I want out of OML through the GUI, much of which would have been impossible under Windoze. Staying between the lines in OML is having a 10 lane highway, in Windoze its having 1 lane + a suicide lane.
If you ask me, I think SLIM is pretty much a server ISO with a tiny head, but many seem to think its cool to try to use it a a full-blown Desktop OS, with the headaches that comes with.
EMBRACE VANILLA! You can add all the chocolate, strawberry or maple/walnut you like once you understand what vanilla actually is.
I wasn’t sure what everyone was complaining about as Brave was rock solid for months. About a week ago I updated Brave from the command line and after that it would freeze every time I opened a new tab and started to type in it. The only way that I could get Brave to run was to launch it from a terminal and then it ran just fine. I did a reboot for an unrelated reason and launched Brave from the menu as is my habit and it was rock solid again. Yah, no clue, but I believe y’all now.
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Brave annoys the crap out of me for mounts now. Crashes constantly for a couple of minutes after first launch. There is literally nothing in logs, no crash report, nothing I can provide to even make a solid bug report. Nothing that would help me or anybody else tracing the issue. I just have hope that some update will resolve that. It is 3 or 5 months since this started
Yes, Brave is a pita. There are days and it does not crash once, but other days it crashes several times in a row after seconds or minutes. My guess is that it is keyring related, because it often crashes a few seconds after starting it or after I login to my bitwarden extension. On my test machine it always crashed when the home partition was running out of disk space (that happened several times now), but I guess that is a me-only problem.
So far OM works nice, no big hurdles.
I use the ROCK version with Plasma 6.
I installed the Commonality theme, i like the CDE look.
Disabled the animations and shadows.
Abiword sometimes crashes on newer odt documents.
I had some work to get freeBasic working.
No problems with Brave as others mentioned here.
The only package I mis is the Arduino IDE.
I’m using the appimage for the time being.
Thar Arduino IDE is available on Flathub/FlatDrake.
If you give us a link to this IDE we can look into getting it packaged in our repos.
Thanks! I will try that one too.
On the download page there is the new 2.3.6 as appimage.
And lagacy 1.8.19 32/64 bit versions as tar.xz.
https://www.arduino.cc/en/software/
The GitHub repo is here:
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I always got some “KIO engine failed” message when trying to install directly from Flathub, so I always use FlatDrake for Flatpaks.
I may be quite wrong, but I tend to blame the KDE Discover app, as its failures are legion, I’m guessing that the install link invokes the Discover “installer”, which then fails utterly, as is its wont.
My word.
From the Bluebird of Happiness to the heavily armed The Matrix Neo Penguin ready to deal with the corporatocracy Matrix.
Bloody beautiful.
Yes, poor repositories are the problem of all small distributions. Also drivers to the NVIDIA graphics card, by default nouveau, it always spoil the impression of any distribution, in this case it would be wise to provide nomodeset option when booting, but there is an option without loading graphics and that’s good. But, from the unique annoying issues that are inherent in OM, is the crashing Chromium, I never thought it was possible nowadays to make such a popular program unworking. But the maintainers did it. You can download it in different ways and it still won’t work properly. I thought it was going to be bad when I looked at the YT review. Everything I downloaded is quite stable.
Am loving omlx Rome.
Tried it on a written-off work laptop only to discover that it had an Optimus chipset and ssdm was blowing up. Grabbed a pure Intel laptop instead rather than wait for upstream to figure it out and it worked first time.
Slapped it on my main PC a week later. All happy.
Had a bit of a dance to persuade my artifically-obsoleted (looking at you HP) Samsung laser printer to work.
I had installed my Steam games to my home partition so I didn’t need to reinstall anything.
Now for the wife’s laptop (she’s still on Manjaro and I’m scared of her…)
[Edit] Also, is it just me that cannot figure dnfdrake out? Maybe I’ve been ruined by yast and synaptic but I just cannot seem to cotton what the buttons do.
Here is the early overview.
Consider that the/some screenshots may be a bit old.
Try also with the dnfdrake tag
If there is anything not clear feel free to ask and we’ll try to answer your doubts.