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How to update OpenMandriva system OpenMandriva policy on system upgrade is different! To upgrade system the distro-sync command is needed instead of update
Wayland:
We provide also a ROME Plasma6 Wayland ISO, however we believe Wayland still not to be mature enough to replace X11 by default for most users.
Please note the Wayland ISO in VirtualBox almost always will boot to a black screen and will not work. It works fine on most hardware and in QEmu with KVM.
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Just as a FYI, Plasma 5 seems to handle Wayland quite well. I am having no problems with it. I am also forcing most software to use Wayland. Somethings, like Steam still default to X11, and run without issues as well.
If convenient, testing Wayland on Plasma 6 would be helpful. We plan to replace Plasma 5 in the very near future. We are seeing performance issues with Plasma 6 with Wayland and Nvidia proprietary drivers (reports on KDE’s Discuss for the open source drivers, also) and are investigating.
This may beyond the scope of what you are trying to accomplish with this but I would suggest something like the Ubuntu handbook. Where they go over the use of the desktop and the changes they made from the default to make it more unique to the distro.
I’m not as familiar with KDE and would find that very beneficial to know what OMLx has tweaked it to do.
Along with what all the default apps are for. Some are definitely intutive and obvious what they are for others not so much.
As soon as I learn more about KDE I would be happy to help with something like that.
been using rome plasma6 wayland on an older t480 since yesterday ,been on it plenty of hours so far so good , with general consumer usage.
would it make sense to just install cosmic on top of it to give it a test ride?
Please include dnf commands. I was unfamiliar with dsync. A sentence or two explaining that this is not the same as fedora would be great, along with a link to dnf in general for people like myself who are coming from a non-rpm distro.
Edit: We have to keep mentioning for new users that for OMLx it is preferred to use sudo dnf dsync --refresh to upgrade your system rather than sudo dnf up --refresh. This is because of OpenMandriva’s unique approach to software packaging.
It’s an html doc thats included on the distro and linked to in the dock.
It covers using Gnome and their tweaks to it.
Includes detailed explanations of most of the default apps.
Also links to all the places to get help.
Very similar to the About OpenMandriva thats currently on our desktop.
Just a lot more extensive.
I installed the OpenMandrivaLx.rolling-snapshot.20241225.3525-plasma6.znver1.iso on a BeeLink AMD system to try it out and it is flawless on Wayland. This is a system with the GPU on the processor.
I have a Ryzen 9 7900X and a new motherboard, etc. shipping as we speak and I will be putting this same ISO on it as well. I don’t know if I will stick the Nvidia 2070 Super into it or wait until Kernel 6.13 and go with the Intel ARC B580 GPU. I am leaning on waiting, but I may test it with the Nouveau drivers on wayland, just to let you guys know the results. I will let you make the call.
@UnkleBonehead that looks nice
Let me the time to sort the current tasks for 6.0 release and I’ll be back to you.
(I’m afraid it’s too late so the feature can’t be shipped anyway with this release)
On every distro I’ve installed oneof the first things i have wanted to do is have numlock turned on at boot. Most non english keyboards require shift to use the top row numbers and as my password always contains letters and numbers i like to use the number pad for logging in. It’s a small things but the number of times i have typed my password and it failed because i forgot to switch on numlock, so i like when it’s automatic. For plasma & sddm just edit the /etc/sddm.conf file from Numlock=none to Numlock=on, if you want it left on after login change the keyboard settings, I think for gnome which i assume uses GDM normally you install numlockx which i think is just numlock in the OM repos and turn on in the login screen options. Its similar for lightdm but you normally aslo edit the lightdm.conf with something like /user/bin/numlockx=on if memory serves. I have never found this info in official docs and always had to google around for it and with different package name conventions this can be confusing if the answer isn’t for your particular distro.
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