By popular demand, I took a look at #Nobara, the gaming focused derivative of #Fedora.
I compared the default experience, various ease of use tweaks, controller support, gaming performance, and highlighted the major differences, after installing both distros on the same device.
So, is Nobara truly better than Fedora for gaming? Let’s see!
I don't recommend listening to me for a full 2h30m, but I had so much fun recording this with Brodie, I hope you check it out! We talk about Ubuntu, Universal Blue, Fedora, and all sorts of stuff!
I drop in some lesser known Ubuntu trivia throughout, let's see how many of them you knew about!
I installed podman + distrobox on my Steam Deck in Desktop mode, set up a Fedora 38 container, then did "sudo dnf install darktable rocm-opencl" and I have raw photo management on my Steam Deck, all hardware accelerated! 🤯
(I did have to run "xhost +localhost" before starting it, but it otherwise works perfectly so far!)
This would be better with an external monitor hooked up, which is possible, thankfully. 😁
Learn how hardware security tokens, featuring the standard #FIDO2 and FIDO U2F, can be used manufacturer independent with standard tools in #Fedora#Linux. The article shows how to register keys, activate them as factor to login on terminal and #GNOME and authenticate when using #sudo.
Following articles in this series will handle #OpenSSH 8.2+ usage for ssh key management and how to use the key as factor to decrypt #LUKS partitions. Stay tuned!
Tune in LIVE for the next episode of the Fedora Podcast!
This time we bring you the promised conversation with @mattdm about the release of Fedora Linux 38.
Stream starts today at 5:00pm EDT (9:00pm UTC). Audio should land wherever you get your podcasts tomorrow. But joining live is more fun! #Fedora#FedoraPodcast
My TB data spans decades, for emails, tasks & events [oh, & also contacts]. I've lost count of however many TB iterations / versions it's lived thru. It began life yonks ago in Win7, & lives now, for many years, in Linux.
For at least a couple of years, my Calendar has had this damn annoying problem. For many Events, but not all, it is just impossible to directly duplicate them. Both Ctrl-C Ctrl-V, & RMB-Copy RMB-Paste, simply do NOTHING [for it seems like the majority (but not entirety) of my Events].
Research lead me to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2015334 my distro is [#Arch not #Fedora, but IMO that's irrelevant]. I was galled to see that bug report was closed without action or solution; also that it was raised only with Redhat not actually Thunderbird.
In exasperation, recently i conceived this inefficient albeit effective workaround: for the target Event, RMB-ConvertTo-Task, then edit said new task to desired date for the intended duplicate, then convert said task to a new Event... then correct all the text formatting that was buggered by this silly indirect process.
I've wondered if possibly the database has become corrupted somehow due to surviving all the historical TB version changes, to cause this duplication problem. So last night i thought i'd Export the Tasks & Events ICS file, then Import it into a clean TB profile elsewhere [in some vague hope that this process might magically "fix" any putative data corruption; hahahaha yeah right]. The Export nominally succeeded, being an 81 MB file. The Import failed every time, with the error msg per pic.
What is a frustrated user now supposed to do? 🤷♀️
I didn't tell him I was going to do this, but I recently found out @quaid was impacted by the #RedHat layoffs. Karsten was a major part of my involvement in #Fedora, especially since I moved to California and was just getting started as a Fedora Ambassador back in 2009. Over the many years I've known him, I've got to see him thrive at bringing people into the #opensource world and fostering a sense of belonging and hospitality.
OK, so #Linux gamers, I figured out a workaround for #LegacyGames store complaining about No connection and refusing to download/install games. If you watch journald (journalctl -f) when this happens, it will give the download URL for the game. You can then install it using the same WINEPREFIX as Legacy Games (you can do this in @lutris during manual add game) and once it finishes installing, the game will show up in the Legacy Games installer as well. I was able to successfully install and run Looking for Aliens (a recent #Twitch Prime giveaway game) on #Fedora#Linux 38 this way.
Ich konsterniere immer mehr bei der Frage von Linux-Distros für Nicht-Geeks. Der Text erklärt das gut: Distros, die vorgeben, einsteigerfreundlich zu sein, und dann bricht doch etwas zu stark, sind konzeptionell ein Irrweg. Das hilft am Ende niemandem.
#Ubuntu und seine Ableger (ja, auch Mint und mittelbar Pop!_OS) spielen sich mit dem #Snap-Desaster, bizarren Sonderwegen und Werbung im System an den Rand. #Fedora und #openSUSE richtige sich mMn schon an Geeks, man muss auch Repos für Video-Hardwarebeschleunigung und Mainstream-Codecs aktivieren und solche Späße. Distro-Upgrades (oder Tumbleweed) sind bei Fedora und openSUSE auch nicht unproblematisch. Dann bleibt nicht mehr viel übrig. Arch, #EndeavourOS und Co. sind für Nerds.
Why do we still live in a world where I can't independently configure my laptop display and external monitor's scaling (100% and 150% respectively) in #Linux? Or is this just an Ubuntu/Kubuntu problem?
Under X11 both displays sync their scaling settings (awful experience when you have a 4K panel). And with Wayland both displays end up blurry, even after a reboot.
I'm using the HP Dev One.
Are there easy workarounds or should I finally make the permanent switch to #fedora?
I'm trying to install #Proton Bridge on a fresh #Kubuntu install, and keep running into this problem. Any hints out there?
EDIT 1: my package manager can't find 'libsecret' or 'secret-service'. Installing 'pass' does nothing. And kwallet isn't supported, which is ridiculous.
EDIT 2: Apparently installing gnome-keyring solves this. @protonmail: Bridge still needs serious work on #Linux...)
For context; I've been around since 2.6.x, which was a kernel released/maintained for about 11 years before 3.0.x came to existence. Every major new kernel version still feels unfathomable (☉｡☉)!