I am an experienced Mint user on my home machine and a software engineer on many linux systems at work. My personal philosophy is that I am looking for a distro that just works so I can get on with using my computer. My hobby is not configuring or troubleshooting distros. That being said I am interested in evaluating a rolling distro to see if one would be stable enough to meet my needs, and I heard good things about Open Mandriva.
I decided to try out ROME plasma6.wayland ryzen 3942 (in keeping with trying out the latest and greatest) on my Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition R10 from 2021, so after 2017.
My live usb booted with no apparent trouble and the desktop quickly appeared and I was impressed. But, the “OM Welcome” app, I had seen a lot about in my research, immediately core dumped. I saw a crash report in the KDE tool that didn’t have much useful information unless I wanted to get busy with a debugger.
I am intentionally not including more information as it is not necessary to answer my question.
I simply wanted to know if this is an expected or unexpected event for this distro?
If its is unexpected, is there a obvious quick fix?
I tried a few things with nvidia drivers, to no avail.
If it is an expected result, or if it is a unexpected result with no obvious quick fix, I will have my answer and continue to search elsewhere for a stable rolling release distro, if such a unicorn exists.
If there is any error output or there are no package updates, please let us know. It sounds like you are using an older ISO before the dependent of om-welcome was patched.
As requested in the previous post, we require you to troubleshoot and possibly configure your system. We cannot divine what you want to install, or how you use your system, nor do we want that level of responsibility over your things. You may wish to consider that before delving further into using OMLx.
There are plenty of set and forget, out of box distros that bloat the system with things you don’t need trying to provide things you do need. We are not doing that. We will always expect direct communication and feedback when it comes to using OMLx. We will also genuinely help people learn that genuinely want to learn instead of people filing an issue and waiting a year to get a response or a closure from indifferent members of a project.
This is probably the last time someone here is going to help you, then.
By its very nature, a rolling release is not meant to be stable. That is why we have Rock. That is our production/stable release. To the extent that we can, we try to make ROME stable for the majority of use cases.
Hello and welcome! Does the computer you’re using have an NVIDIA GPU? If so, then you might want to try x11 instead of Wayland. The combination of Wayland, NVIDIA, and OM don’t go well together (from what I’ve read on the forum…I’ll admit, I have no idea why)
Yes I do have an NVIDIA GPU, and thank you Mike. This is exactly the kind of information I needed. I suspected something of the like.
I can now better weigh the trade off of trying a not bleeding edge rolling distro (Wayland vs. X11) and trouble shooting or perhaps waiting for Wayland to mature.
I know my request was high level and detailed troubleshooting was not needed which is why I phrased my request as I did. I only see one level of support board here, aside from the various language boards. Perhaps a OM beginner or high level (not detailed) support board would help. Your template looks great for detailed trouble shooting, but I did not need that and the other forum boards seemed less relevant than this one did.
TBH your impatient, officious and less than polite attitude is not contributing positively to my OM experience so far, unlike Mike. Although it is common on many if not most distro boards I have seen. Based on what I heard I was hoping for more with OM.
I shudder to think what a Windows refuge thinks when they seek assistance on these (most distros) boards. It will likely drive many back to W11.
I did no such thing, and your emotional health, well being, and comfort are not my responsibility. Nor anyone else’s here. We have expectations of anyone wanting to seek assistance and they are not unreasonable by your own standards:
That is what support is for, regardless of what level of user shows up. Your projection about the criticism I gave doesn’t excuse the fact that you skipped right past all of that and offered some pretty lofty and unreasonable expectations of how we should interact with you and the level of service we should provide. There was no effort on your part to meet us halfway to discuss how we do things or provide us with more information to help you in a topic clearly created to provide that. Which is why this has been moved to Coffee break.
Given all of that, I don’t think your statements are in good faith and you had no intention of using our distro. Otherwise a simple thing like what I offered to assist you with a known bug would have been at the very least tried. This project is a collection of people that volunteer their time to create a distribution because they want FOSS to succeed, and to teach others of its value. Not to serve people’s ungrateful and unproductive whims. It might be best in the future to treat others in the positive way that you wish to be treated instead of unloading your emotional baggage on them, and then telling them how terrible they are when they criticize you and won’t provide you with something you feel you are entitled to.
3942 ISO is from “May 05 2025” which is like ages old.
Here is a recent one: https://abf.openmandriva.org/platforms/rolling/products/179/product_build_lists/4079
Just built, so not tested. FYI
Nonetheless if you distro-sync your system you will receive all the available updates and bugfixes if any.
I am intentionally not including more information as it is not necessary to answer my question.
Let me say that’s a wrong approach, since you don’t know what can be relevant to your (any) issue.
I simply wanted to know if this is an expected or unexpected event for this distro?
Of course it’s unexpected.
If its is unexpected, is there a obvious quick fix?