That’s my fifth day on open mandriva, so far so good.
Im on stable (ROCK). I have no need for any kind of rolling release distro.
As far as my understanding of the subject go OM Rome is more similar to debian testing then debian sid or arch linux. So it is kinda rolling. Anyway it does not matter I need stable and I got on on rock
The biggest issue I had with the distro was hilariously and surprisingly … KDE. That was a user problem, not a distro problem. I needed few days to adjust. Now it is all just great.
Biggest issue that I heard of that other people had with OM is
The stable release system schedule is not fix. The system will be released when ready.
So everybody use rolling nobody cares about stable. Never heard more BS in just 3 sentences
How that (The system will be released when ready.) can be an issue for some. I do not have clue.
This is an advantage, not a disadvantage. I do not want to use half baked unpredictable system just because someone forced release against some schedule
The second complaint people have. Its horible on dell vostro and system does not have working bbswitch.
1.del vostro in general is abomination not a laptop. If you have ever disassemble that you know.
2. bbswich nvidia and linux. Nvidia do not have the best linux support in general.
So my question is who the F. buy the most prone to defect laptop with most widows friendly / linux unfriendly parts inside and stick a a linux on top of that???
Third problem people have gui administrative tools can sometimes break OM
Really??? So they do at any other linux distro . Lean the basics of the system you use regardless of its brand or orign.
For instance, Im a Slackware debian guy. DNF is weird to the point of being unpleasant to use.
Yet I in a process of learning it and other rpm redhat-ish rpm tools. Because im using rpm distro with a dnf as its default package menager. It is that simple.
Why? Because when it boils down to administrative tasks proper tools should be used. Period!
It is that simple
I can’t speak for people with different setups and PC configurations, but on mine everything works great.
My spec below it is noting fancy except a lot of storage and ram
OS: OpenMandriva Lx iodine 5.0 x86_64
Host: B450M-HDV R4.0 (Asrock)
Kernel: 6.6.2-desktop-1omv2390
Display (SMS27A350H): 1920x1080 @ 60Hz
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G (12) @ 4,46 GHz
GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 6600
Memory: RAM: total: 64 GiB available: 62.19 GiB
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie:
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 4.59 TiB used: 301.58 GiB (6.4%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: A-Data model: SX8200PNP size: 1.86 TiB
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: PNY model: CS900 1TB SSD size: 931.51 GiB
ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD2003FZEX-00SRLA0
size: 1.82 TiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: WD-WMC6N0H5D5K6
Keyboard wireless logitech
Printer HP InkTank 315
Webcam Rebel (Polish brand made in china) ID 1c4f:0048 SiGma Micro chipset
Microphone Mozos MKIT-700PRO V2 (Polish brand made in china) ID 0c76:2018 JMTek, LLC
Some Chinese yet great video-grabber with allegedly MS2131 cipset inside
Most extensively used software
OBS
Shotcut
Steam
KDE Kamaso
Everything works smoothly 100% hardware and software
Also banks in Poland are scam I will make a donation by Paypal, stripe or whatever but not by bank transfer.
For instance if i want to send 100pln which is approximately 24 euro
both sides of a transaction pays 25 pln fee for the transfer. So overall fee is 50 pln which gives around 12 euro . And that. a half of a money i want o send Crazy!
Fine I can pay a fine for a bank transfer but why as (OM project) would you pay also.
I want to send you a money not generate more cost for you.
Excuse my french but fuck the fucking banking system of Poland I will donate using other channels then bank transfer.
Time to open stripe account for me or something.
Im mad with a banking system really.
If paypal fails me and stripe fails me (which is unlikely but possible) I will put a money to f*ing envelope and send it on @bero company business address.
Yup Im mad!