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I think you're probably after the server versions. Here's a tutorial for the server edition for F27, but the steps should be similar for which ever version you decide to go for. You might also be interested in comparing Fedora server with CentOS.

Good luck!

Fedora comes with flatapak out of the box and the use of it is also somewhat encouraged. But proprietary repos are never enabled by default on fedora. Luckily you can easily enable the flathub repo (https://flatpak.org/setup/Fedora/) which should contain every flatpak you might want.

> is the most used distro

Doubtful. Canonical hardly makes money and on the recently launched statistics page they avoid stating absolute numbers – it's all percentages.

In all likelihood Ubuntu is way behind at the very least Debian and Arch, quite possibly even behind the combined user base of all of Red Hat's distributions (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, and CoreOS). It's publicly available information that on a financial level even SUSE is ahead of Canonical.

> So, why use fedora and not ubuntu?

Because you encountered bugs in Ubuntu you did not have in Fedora, duh.

The Pacman Rosetta is very useful for folks moving from any distro to another. It's got a list of commands and their equals for each package manager. If you know the apt-get command for something you want to do, it's easy to find the dnf command to do the same thing.

The GNOME folks aren't too into desktop icons anymore, but Nautilus not being able to display them on Wayland is a bug that has already been fixed in nautilus-3.22.2, which should be available soon: http://linux.softpedia.com/blog/nautilus-3-22-2-file-manager-makes-desktop-icons-work-on-wayland-sessions-510881.shtml

I experienced the same problem with Nemo but shamefully didn't file a bug. There is already one to simply not show the icons: https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues/1343

Please file a bug to request that desktop icon support in Nemo with Wayland.

I expect that desktop icons are going to be increasingly badly-supported in GNOME + Wayland going forward.

Eh, that's just because of Flatpak's conventions, plus even if volunteers get an app onto Flathub initially the app developers can take over the maintenance if they wish afterwards, so changing the app ID then would just unnecessarily break things.

I have a Kaby Lake XPS 13 running Fedora 26. Everything works perfectly, including the touchscreen, and Fedora even handles firmware upgrades.

If you're a Terminator fan I suggest Tilix which is a bit more modern. It's available in the Fedora repos.

Silverblue is not designed for servers. If you want an immutable server OS, look at Fedora CoreOS. It uses the same technology as Silverblue, but with a server and container focused configuration. You will need to reboot for updates, but that's generally a good idea regardless of whether the system requires you to or not.

If Fedora Media Writer fails on your Windows PC, I suggest you download the ISO file directly and then write it to the USB via the Rufus tool.

OP's post makes no sense, why would VPNs be not conducive to open source software?

VPN servers are 99% running open source software like most network services. Just use the network wizard that comes with your desktop environment (which'll use the appropriate software/libraries in the background), or if not using a DE use the openvpn client to connect to the VPN of your choice.

Personally I use NordVPN's service for anonymisation and for my own VPN at home (for home access when away from home) I use the OpenVPN server instance running on my router. For connecting to these or any VPNs I use the standard vpn settings in Gnome, the Openvpn Connect client on Windows and Android and the Openvpn cli client on my server/seedbox.

Are you using the official beta image from https://getfedora.org/workstation/download/? This was a bug with an earlier kernel prior to beta, but was fixed for the beta release.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1998712

Before typing 'y', one ought at the very least check here (scroll to where it says "Package Signing Keys") to make sure that the signatures are the same and that the repository is legitimate.

Interesting question - the same question has just been posted on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9511007

I think most of it comes down to laziness to manually install proprietary software/rpmfusion, no rolling release (like arch), marketing and perhaps the confusingness of the current anaconda.

I for one still think Fedora is the best linux distribution, because it offers the latest and greatest from the linux world in an unfiltered fashion. I also think the installer is OK-ish, particularly because it's possible to easily set up luks/lvm. I use it on all my desktops.

We (Fedora!) think it's great for this! If you need something that will be API-stable for years, one of our downstream distros is a better choice (e.g. RHEL for certification and support, CentOS for DIY). Fedora does move relatively quickly, but that's not a bad thing for home servers. Each release is supported until the "next +1" release comes out, and since we're on an approximately six month schedule, that means one upgrade every year (with a month of "grace period").

Right now, the Fedora Server Edition has built-in Roles for an identity server and for a database server. Roles are basically like presets — button press low-maintenance configurations. You can also, of course, start with minimal Fedora Server and build up anything from there. There's a suggestion to also offer a file server role, but no one is really currently working on it. (This'd be an awesome place to get involved!)

The Anaconda installer certainly does have its issues.

But since you mention a fairly involved Arch setup that you have successfully installed, you should know that Fedora can be installed in a similar way. You just need to switch to the tty from the live media, then use yum directly.

See this script which is forked from Kay Seivers' original (it was forked to change from GPT to ms-dos partitioning, and I couldn't find the original as quickly).

> is there any way to install NVIDIA Bumblee drivers on Fedora?

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bumblebee

> Also, I've noticed that Fedora uses a different package manager and has different terminal commands than Debian - so with all this in mind, I'm wondering if you think I would find Fedora easier to use than Debian?

The package management tool operates very similar to apt-get. I find dnf to be more coherent than apt-get.

You use apt-cache search <package_name> in Debian, while Fedora you use dnf search <package_name>.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/package-management-basics-apt-yum-dnf-pkg

> Also, Debian is very slow with new software updates because it focuses on security and stability.

Fedora has a much faster release cycle compare to Debian. If you need LTS, I would still to Debian.

> Does Fedora stable get new updates for third-party apps as soon as the devs release it or is it the same as with Debian?

That depends where the application's repository resides. Packages on the main Fedora's repositories will get security updates and rarely any major version bump. For example, Gnome 3.28 will be release with Fedora 28 compare to Fedora 27 with Gnome 3.26.

If you need the latest, you can always add the official project repository.

This tutorial on Firewalld is my go to. It really helped me understand how everything works, and once you get your head around it, it's relatively simple.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-firewall-using-firewalld-on-centos-7

You mention port forwarding - which makes me wonder if you are trying to get to the server from outside. Opening the port on the server's firewall wont help if the router isn't forwarding the port for outside connections. But those are two different things - opening the port in the firewall and forwarding it from the router.

Protip: You can use VirtualBox to try as many distros as you want before you nuke your Ubuntu install. I recommend going to DistroWatch and downloading a bunch of distros that strike your fancy and giving them all a try. What do you have to lose?

Definitely make sure you install openSUSE and Mageia as well. They're great distros with a bit of a different feel than Ubuntu, Fedora, and Debian.

For everyone complaining that they have to delete more to run what was

service httpd status

and is now

systemctl status httpd.service

you know that

^old^new

can be used to replace parts of the last command, so either way it's just as fast.

On a side note, why are you running a Fedora for your webserver? Why not something more stable like CentOS or Scientific Linux which both are Red Hat based, and also still use service not systemctl.

kdenlive.
Its got a bit of a learning curve. the features and functionality are at a prosumer level, IMO - Somewhere between iMovie and Final Cut.
TBH, I snagged the blender files from the openshot source code and use use them IN blender to make my fancy titles when I feel inclined.
Specific tool for specific job.

You could enable SSH by "systemctl start sshd" plus "systemctl enable sshd" and you could use WinSCP [1] afterwards to transfer files from Windows to your Linux machine. (SSH does not care if the remote machine is on the internet or on the local net, it just must be reachable on TCP port 22.)

[1] https://winscp.net/eng/docs/introduction

Nevermind, i found the answer from this article.

>If you already run PowerTop or TLP then you’re already benefitting from the bulk of these savings. This effort, as de Goede says, is simply about implementing the best settings by default.

As /u/sentientredstripe already pointed out, you can download the daemon here

Then I put it into my PATH:

/home/<user>/bin/xflux

In order to start it you have to provide your geographical location via command line. If you want it to be started on boot, create a file called xflux.desktop in ~/.config/autostart (I'm using gnome maybe/probably this is different for other desktop environments, not sure though). The content of this file is:

[Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=1.0 Name=xflux Comment=Adapts screen color temperatur according to daytime Exec=/home/<user>//bin/xflux -l <latitude> -g <longitude> Terminal=false Type=Application Name[en_US]=xflux

If you're living in the US you can also use -z <zipcode> instead of latitude and longitude.

For the wallpaper I usually get high resolution images licensed under Creative Commons from Unsplash.

You can get the icon theme from the package pop-icon-theme.noarch.

For the WM I use Arc-Darker-Solid theme.

I use Plank for the dock and add transparency to the windows in which I'm not focused.

I shrink the system fonts (to about 9) to give the appearance of a bigger screen and effectively have more space to accommodate windows.

I put some programs on the dock but I rarely use them as I have keyboard shortcuts for most of them. I usually work on a terminal, so it's not that important.

I disable automount of external media.

I add some applets to the top panel: Workspace switcher, weather, battery plugin showing percentage and personalize the date formate with "&#37;a &#37;e of &#37;B".

I think that's about it. Feel free to ask me anything if I missed something or wasn't clear enough.

Looks like this COPR was created specifically with DXVK in mind. I haven't tried it myself but looks promising.

edit: That's still Mesa 18.1, which is what you need for DirectX games but not "Core OpenGL", says Valve. Hopefully he'll release a new package soon.

You can install apps through gnome software, flathub.org, terminal (you can search for an app by typing dnf search [app name]). First time you open the gnome software, it will ask you to enable "third party repositories", click on "enable" when you see it. Otherwise, just click the hamburger menu on the top right and choose "software repositories" and enable whatever you like. Also,
- Enable RPM fusion free and non-free to get more apps. Just click the link attached and look for "RPM Fusion free for Fedora 34" and "RPM Fusion non-free for Fedora 34" under "Graphical Setup via Firefox web browser". Click on them one after one, once clicked, it will open in gnome software, then just click install.

- Enable Flathub

Ok. Fedora Workstation is "professional" and user friendly out of the box. My question was about specific things. Do you only want to add some software or do stuff like building a custom kernel to include in Fedora?

It's called "netinstall" https://getfedora.org/de/workstation/download/ When you install it you can choose not to install a DE.

dnf info <package> will give you more information about a package. For example:

» dnf info java-1.8.0-openjdk Last metadata expiration check performed 20:46:17 ago on Wed Nov 18 01:08:59 2015. Installed Packages Name : java-1.8.0-openjdk Arch : x86_64 Epoch : 1 Version : 1.8.0.65 Release : 3.b17.fc22 Size : 501 k Repo : @System From repo : updates Summary : OpenJDK Runtime Environment URL : http://openjdk.java.net/ License : ASL 1.1 and ASL 2.0 and GPL+ and GPLv2 and GPLv2 with exceptions and LGPL+ and LGPLv2 and MPLv1.0 and MPLv1.1 and Public Domain and W3C Description : The OpenJDK runtime environment.

One other option that you may wish to consider is Korora.

It is a Fedora remix and is for all intents and purpses, Fedora, just made a little bit more user-friendly for newcomers to Fedora. They have a tool called Pharlap, that will install the Nvidia drivers for you.

https://kororaproject.org/about

It is worth a look and I've heard good things about Korora. They do tend to release their new versions of Korora a little bit after Fedora though.

> I think I'm starting to get the hang of DNF

If you know apt, then dnf should not be an issue IMO.

Take a look at this comparison https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Rosetta#Basic_operations

And welcome to Fedora!

As tempting as it is to assume we're all familiar with that problem, you'll get more help if you act as if you're the first one to see it.

The only problem that I know of regarding Docker on Fedora has been that since Fedora switched to a cgroups v2 configuration, Docker hasn't worked because it doesn't support cgroups v2. They released a version that does in December, and I'd expect Docker to work on a default Fedora configuration since then:

https://www.docker.com/blog/introducing-docker-engine-20-10/

(Though, to be clear, I prefer the security model used by podman, so I don't use Docker.)

When I started with Linux, I had trouble finding the right software to use with so many unfamiliar options. Check out this site: https://alternativeto.net/. It suggests software based on popularity. Just remember to filter by "open-source only!"

I'm not the most knowledgeable about this topic, but I'd say look into the systemd Boot Loader Specification.

Not the exact answer, but hopefully a good jumping off point!

Compare the screenshots carefully https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now.html

That should give you a visual idea, then you can move on to studying the source code and see which one you would like to contribute to.

Some might be web based, others use Qt and some use GTK.

I've been using the beta for a month or two. I'd hold out for bugs to be resolved. Usually I hold out for a while before upgrading but decided to run the beta this time.

Bugs of note include:

Rare occasion of kernel-panic during bootup. Claiming cpu #2 stalled. (Ryzen)

Wifi randomly disconnecting requiring a reboot for the issue to go away. (USB & Rare)

LibXSS locking the screen ~ 10 seconds after you log in sometimes.

The Cinnamon DE freezes completely once in a while.

A handful of impossible scenerios in the package manager when installing things. (Most are resolved now.)

Harmless and semi-rare graphics bugs when scrolling the browser in Firefox and Chrome.

Private Internet Access VPN doesn't work in OpenVPN mode. You MUST select WireGuard.

HandBrake-GUI will crash during long video encodes nearly every time. Regardless of the codec or options selected.

Certain programs that modify IPTables rules in order to function do not work as intended.

LXDE Freezes on very very rare occasion.

A super rare bug where the filesystem/storage completely freezes and running programs can no longer access the disk. Requiring a reboot. (Happened 4 times over the course of 2 months.)

I don't have the nightly installed personally, but there appears to be a setting you can set in about:config called general.useragent.override (you might have to create it) that will allow you to change the user agent string.

It is not free, but $ 5 a month is not a lot of money for personal VPN. Works great on my Fedora, Windows and Android.

Personally, my preferred git client is just the CLI. Additionally, many editors/IDEs have some degree of integration, which I've generally been happy with. A list of dedicated clients, free and non-free, can be found at https://git-scm.com/download/gui/linux.

Yes, Ubuntu will have the $PATH adjusted ahead of time for snaps (also Solus, which originally favored snaps), but Fedora doesn't have this set up out-of-the-box.

From the documentation, it looks like snaps can be run like other executables once installed, but you have to use the path if not in your $PATH

About point 3 - fedora is popular. It's actually on the fifth place on distrowatch (however I'd take those numbers with a grain of salt, since they are measured by page hits instead of something more precise - like downloads).

Anyway, fedora is pretty popular and widely used. Many people just start out with SuSE or Ubuntu since they have flashy DEs with everything being done for them (yes, we have gnome3 now, I know).
Other distros are also much more visible. Arch with it's extensive wiki, ubuntu with its image of being the newest hipster shit after apple, debian being the 'hacker distro', OpenSuSE being old (scnr, stable), kali (former backtrack) being the distro with which everyone has a story of having hacked the neighbours wifi (seriously, it's tiring hearing the same story in different variations)...

In the meantime fedora is just a playground for redhat and in my experience people use it mainly for one reason: They want/need a stable system while still being able to test the new stuff. And that's just something that the average joe doesn't need.

Sorry, I encountered the answer myself 5 minutes after my OP.

Fedora does not have any LTS kernel releases; I wrongly understood that the Linux LTS releases found here also applied to Fedora.

Nevermind then, I guess that my only option is to exclude kernel updates completely and temporarily remove the exclusion like once per year after taking a full backup.

You can install Steam as a Flatpak or from enabling the repository in the store. Same with the Nvidia drivers. Gamehub is in the repository by default and will let you install gog.com games. The gaming situation is fairly well.

There is also some emulators and Retroarch in the repo if you want to do some classic games.

Oh misread your question - annoyingly they added a p to name, but its in the core repo's

Name : p7zip Version : 16.02 Release : 21.fc35 Architecture : x86_64 Size : 1.6 M Source : p7zip-16.02-21.fc35.src.rpm Repository : @System From repo : fedora Summary : Very high compression ratio file archiver URL : http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/ License : LGPLv2 and (LGPLv2+ or CPL)

I was thinking having it instead of Chromium in the repos, but I see what you mean... an official ungoogled-chromium would be great... but if there were no technical problems I don't see who would ever want the original Chromium? Might as well just supersede the old version with it? Just update the build scripts and job done (I think, I am not a packager!)

If people want full Google Chrome they can just install the official RPM file https://www.google.com/chrome/ . Chromium should be as de-googled as possible I think.

Do you have "lxhotkey" installed?

LXDE uses Openbox so you could edit config files to add your shortcuts but it's less user-friendly. Be aware that LXDE isn't as polished as GNOME/KDE/Xfce. And, even if it still works, it's getting deprecated in favor of LXQt.

For lightweight but very user-friendly desktop I would recommend Xfce. It requires a bit more resources than LXDE but any computer should be able to run it well anyway.

Don't know if there's an extension to autohide the top bar, but this one can make it transparent at least.

Variety can be used to set your wallpaper to images from subreddits (as well as other sites).

Fedora uses Flatpak by default, have you installed snapd?

https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snap-on-fedora has the details.

Your screenshot suggests you are trying to install grub-customizer. If that is the case you may have better luck with the native package rather than a snap or flatpak though.

# sudo dnf install grub-customizer

>what drivers i should look into installing

Unless you have a NVIDIA card you don't usually need to install any drivers. The NVIDIA drivers are available through RPM Fusion.

>first things you do when u have a fresh clean install

Install media codecs from RPM Fusion and setup Flathub.

You need to enable rpmfusion as some people suggest but I would recommend you Flathub to install apps like Discord or Spotify. Flatpak is installed by default on Fedora you need to enable the repo.

Linux has been my primary/only desktop now for more than a decade. Used to be Ubuntu, switched to Fedora 4 years ago and very happy.

I have several questions/requests, but I'll limit it to one:

Usable desktop security.

Using a Linux/Fedora desktop in a professional environment, I have to juggle work requirements (e.g. install this random conferencing crapplet that our customer uses) with the ever-increasing realization of just how hostile the network and many apps are.

Qubes OS is going in the right direction, and it's based on Fedora, but there is a big usability price to pay - for example, GNOME isn't (last time I checked) an option there.

I'd really like to see Fedora move in a similar direction. Anything that allows us to use necessary attack vectors like Skype in a truly secure/isolated manner would make me (and I'm sure many others) very, very happy.

According to https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt , what I'm doing is more like CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y. So, you'll gain a bit more performance, and you'll lose some battery life in the process.

Can you test how deep your sleep states are going with PowerTop and CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE=y?

I asked this on the Fedora kernel developers IRC.

So from what I understand when the kernel 4.9.x reaches around version 2 it's more likely that it will find its way into the main Fedora release.

If we look here: https://www.kernel.org/

We see that it's at 4.9.1

So it should release sooner than later for Fedora 25, maybe February I guess.

The reason why it's so slow is because it's the holidays and the people who do this stuff need a break too :)

Here's the link to site

I really like it, nice and clean, much more cohesive and modern than before but it does have a sanitized feel if that makes any sense?

I like the illustrations a lot and I've also been really appreciting how beautiful Fedora 30 looks. The new icons, the slight updates to the UI.

I'm so happy with this distro and thankful that it exists. Great job team!!!

Edit: I do see some responsive issues and some, if not all, images are too low res.

Example of responsive bug

Yes, it is.
From Windows is even easier to do it.
look into this

You basically need to do two things:
1. download the ISO of the OS
2. create a live USB with that ISO

Welp, that'd do it.

>Project Atomic provides a platform to deploy and manage containers on bare-metal, virtual, or cloud-based servers. Project Atomic hosts are designed to be minimal hosts focused on the delivery of container services. Project Atomic hosts ship with Docker, Flannel, and Kubernetes to build clusters for container based services. Docker provides the container runtime, Flannel provides overlay networking, and Kubernetes provides scheduling and coordination of containers on hosts.

http://www.projectatomic.io/docs/gettingstarted/

Download fedora server instead.

sudo dnf install fedora-repos-rawhide && sudo dnf --enablerepo=rawhide install krita

• installs the Rawhide repo

• Temporarily enables the Rawhide repo to install Kirta

Don't know how you feel about rawhide but it gets you the newer version.

Also, stating the obvious you can get an AppImage.

You can access this website to check which DNS is being used. If you see your ISP DNS, or different DNSes, than you have leak.

https://www.dnsleaktest.com

PIA's website will tell you if you are connected to one of their IP addresses.

> I changed the dns

Thanks a lot buddy, that was the clue I needed. I've got a custom hosts file generated from (https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts). I grep'd for Spotifiy and found the following entries:

adeventtracker.spotify.com ads-fa.spotify.com ads.spotify.com analytics.spotify.com audio-sp-sto.spotify.com audio2.spotify.com crashdump.spotify.com desktop.spotify.com gew1.ap.spotify.com log.spotify.com lon6-accesspoint-a33.lon6.spotify.com spclient.wg.spotify.com upgrade.spotify.com weblb-wg.gslb.spotify.com #spclient.wg.spotify.com #[affects mobile app]

One or more of those was stopping Spotify from loading, I started whitelisting them 1 by 1, then got bored just whitelisted them all and the now the Spotify app works properly. At some point I'll try to figure exactly which ones are need for the desktop app to run. Thanks again!

Ungoogled-chromium is chromium but without google, so no spell check, no sync, no safe browsing, nothing you sending back to google or getting from google, no extesnion support either, for extenstions you would need to sideload an external extension that will allow you to install extensions for the chrome web store. Here's the official binaries site.

If you're however looking for ways to minimize the data getting sent to google you can read about the project and see what you can disable yourself.

I like uBlock, in particular the detail of the tool for blocking particular adds.

The only reason I chose Adblock Plus is because Privacy Badger is based on it and I figured there wouldn't be many compatibility issues. Also, I only started to use uBlock Origin one year ago and didn't change it on their computers. But, I'll have it in mind for future installs. I appreciate the recommendation.

Interesting to see another backup alternative, but what are the advantages over others? Duplicity specifically.

http://duplicity.nongnu.org/index.html

Duplicity delegates archive management and encryption to rsync and GPG which I see to be major plusses over reinventing the wheel.

Also I don't see anything in the rustic docs detailing incremental vs full backup management. Maybe I missed it.

One place I'd love to see improvements over duplicity is file restore time. Sometimes it can take 20+ minutes to restore a smallish directory (~100 files, ~100MB).

I would recommend pyenv for Python management. You can install multiple versions of Python interpreter in your home directory without touching system's version. Then you can easily switch between them (pyenv global) or use different versions in different directories (pyenv local).

I initially thought this too. I was vaguely familiar with it from Project Atomic and FreeIPA. When I read the article I was thinking to myself that this would be useful and more widely adoptable as a dashboard for multiple servers. It looks like it either can do this, or it is planned on the road map. From the Cockpit Project Page:

>Multi-server >You can monitor and administer several servers at the same time. >Just add it easily and your server will look after its buddies.

From the docs it looks like it works over simple SSH.

Yeah, that looks like "gnome2", while yours is just plain gnome3

probably the person is running MATE, http://mate-desktop.org/

'yum groupinstall mate-desktop' would give you MATE for Fedora, or you could use yumex -> click on "groups" and pick "MATE Desktop" on the left side and choose which packages you would like to have.

> https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/canary.html
> Chrome Canary is currently not available on the linux platform.

So you would have to build it from source. Probably base it upon one of the Chromium builds in COPR.

Can't speak to Nord, but I can tell you that ExpressVPN has clients for Fedora, Ubuntu, and Arch and they all work perfectly, network blocking (kill switch) works perfectly and the client is highly scriptable.

NO no no no... Mullvad is amazing and they do offer .ovpn file, you just have to pick Android option at config generation page /u/LinuxLearnerFED. After that just import that file through VPN settings.

Redshift is getting moved the individual compositors, if you're using Gnome then you will get that built in (and working on Wayland) in Gnome 3.24

I have no idea about the AirVPN client, does it just not run or does it run incorrectly? You might get something useful (to yourself or the developers) by running it from terminal and seeing if it spouts off any debug output

the most secure vpn client would be the one already built into fedora (under network settings). that can handle many VPN standards like PPTP, openvpn, L2TP. just find a VPN provider that gives you openvpn config files and import them into fedora's vpn client and you're golden. I know at least PIA and Mullvad provide openvpn config files.

admittedly it can be kind of difficult to import those openvpn config files, which is why VPN companies make their own clients. Mullvad's client is open source, so if I were going to use a third party VPN client i'd go with Mullvad. but try to use the built in client first.

I'm using RPM Fusion, the unitedrpms repos appear to be stored on sourceforge, and don't seem to be that popular (from the download figures on the sourceforge directories at least).

You'd probably be better off sticking with the main repos, rpmfusion and copr repositories as surgested in the IRC channel topic.

here are some examples for firewalld commands:

sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-port=5000/tcp

sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-service=https

they should translate well enough once you change the syntax around. I use these sites to help me remember how to use firewalld:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-firewall-using-firewalld-on-centos-7

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firewalld?rd=FirewallD

Good luck with your future firewall :)

This is not the answer you may be looking for. If you only need linux for development, you could try visual studio code + WSL2, this way you don't need to dualboot.

Or you can just copy your /home folder to a flash drive or an external drive and use it on whichever distro and PC you like and keep all the preferences. You can learn more here.

The official electrum website has an AppImage. Use that one as it is updated and will check for updates automatically. You can get it from their official website here https://electrum.org/ or get it from their github. Make sure you aren't getting it from a fake website. People make fake websites and package it with malware to get access to your wallet. Always verify the electrum you are downloading is legit

Also, at least on my machine and according to the kernel docs, I have to

echo manual >/sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_dpm_force_performance_level

before the overclocking interface will work.

Airplane mode is basically an rfkill soft block. Yes, of course it should always work... sans bugs. Of course, if there is a firmware bug somewhere, it might not work, but I've never heard of this happening. Use a hardware switch if you're paranoid.

It's OK. Values higher than 100 might even be optimal. The documentation says:

>For in-memory swap, like zram or zswap, as well as hybrid setups that have swap on faster devices than the filesystem, values beyond 100 can be considered. For example, if the random IO against the swap device is on average 2x faster than IO from the filesystem, swappiness should be 133 (x + 2x = 200, 2x = 133.33).

Several weeks ago I was working on benchmarking zram against my root partition, to set swappiness according to that formula, but I got distracted.

One consideration is that you may have several disks with vastly different I/O latency, but there's only one swappiness value for the whole system. Probably can't hurt to set it based on the fastest disk, though.

I've seen the same error. I think it is because the VirtualBox kernel modules are not installed. they are compiled on the fly from some VirtualBox command. once that happens then that error should go away.

if you got it from https://www.virtualbox.org I think there's a command you have to run

if you got it from rpmfusion there should be a kmod-VirtualBox package you can install

Cinnamon Mint is better suited for noobs, if you want the easiest out of the box experience.

Fedora requires some learning, like about dnf, one thing I don't like about Fedora Cinnamon is their is no Updater that checks for updates for me, I have to literally run yum extender (dnf) to check for and install updates, which has always been buggy for me, so I actually just use the CLI and type sudo dnf update, to check for and install updates.

Fedora doesn't come with an option during install to install 3rd party codecs etc, but people have made post installers like easyLife, and PostInstallerF, that help you easily do a number of things after install.

If you never used Fedora, and the people your installing it for never used Fedora or even linux, I don't know if its a good idea to get them all confused by starting them on Fedora, probably better to go with Mint instead for now until you learn how to use Fedora first...

EDIT I guess it really depends on what the person your installing it for wants, if they are ready to learn Fedora, and willing to put in the time to learn about it, more power to them, or if they want something easy to just use out of the box? its their choice..

Regarding Gaming: Depending on the games it's worth checking out what Steam and Lutris can offer you. Most of the games I play work on Linux, so I don't need dual boot anymore.

Check out the Protondb and Lutris.net how well your games are supported

Edit: Negativo17 also has a steam repository

I like Vorta.

The flatpack works amazingly.

https://www.flathub.org/apps/details/com.borgbase.Vorta

I'm not 100% sure if it needs sudo dnf install borgbackup or not. The .rpm did, but it wasn't auto starting properly on plasma as the .rpm verison for me personally.

It also can compress the archives as well, and auto delete older archives you don't need.

Whats new and hot?
I don't see sched-BMQ in https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/scheduler/ so I'm kind of disappointed. Thats pretty much what I've been waiting for since CFS and the default schedulers act funky under multitasking load with multimedia, compiling, gaming, etc. I'd like to see PDS-mq as an option also, since its faster and better than MuQSS and more dynamically efficient at multitasking vs CFS. At least we have good BFQ iosched defaults!

Even back in 2016 they were noticing 12fps increase in WoW with PDS-mq, at only ~67fps to boot. Bitmap Queueing is supposed to be better optimized for dynamic workloads and is a lot smaller and faster for repetitive queueing adjustments. Neat stuff. I've gained a lot of performance just switching to BFQ on this little dual thread pc.

Python2 is EOL and no longer supported from the python project. Therefore it was removed from Fedora.

If you Need something to download YouTube videos, here you go:

• https://www.flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.unrud.VideoDownloader
• dnf install youtube-dl (https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/youtube-dl)

I can't help with the Windows7 load since I've never tried.

You're going to need rEFIt to boot into the Fedora installer (http://refit.sourceforge.net/).

Getting everything working from there on will require some tweaking. Try looking at the instructions here: http://www.thelinuxdaily.com/2011/06/fedora-15-lovelock-on-macbook-aluminum-guide/

> in Korora, which is what I would call the definitive Fedora experience

I've got issues with Fedora too. But Korora recently decided to skip 27. I'm worried they'll skip 28 too, which will burn me.

Broadcom doesn't have open source drivers, so Fedora won't package their untrusted binaries. but as mentioned here, rpmfusion.org is the way to go.

If you don't care about running untrusted (built from closed source) binaries on your system, you can also look into Korora: https://kororaproject.org/about/whats-inside

Korora is a distribution based off of Fedora, but it is preconfigured with some of the niceties (like RPM Fusion, Adobe Flash) that would violate Fedora's licensing policies

Hello, to get started you might want to take a look at Korora a Fedora based distro that "Just works". I'm not sure it will work, it might even be that there are no drivers for this touchscreen out of the box for Fedora. However, if you want to start troubleshooting I suggest you start by posting lspci -vvvv result.

You may also consider Korora project which is a spin of Fedora meant to make a lot of non-free stuff work out of the box, like Flash Player. On their about page they don't mention Steam. But this article on their site suggests to me that they might even have steam in their official repositories: https://kororaproject.org/about/news/full-steam-ahead

They don't have Korora (Fedora) 22 yet though. But if you're willing to lag behind a bit, it's an option. I'm switching from Ubuntu Gnome to Fedora 22 myself to try it out. I thought I was a hacker or something using Ubuntu. :'D That fantasy has been shattered after installing Fedora 22.

I would say that that is a good way of looking at it. Fedora is the test bed of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. So that being said, if you are prepping for say a Red Hat Cert., you would go with Fedora 12/13 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Fedora 19/20 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Honestly, I would have to say that Fedora is kind of like the test bed for the whole Linux world. The reason I view it this was is that they push for the most cutting edge software with the intention of standardizing it. For instance, they are pushing the Wayland protocol (successor of X) forward as fast as possible. Fedora 21, one is able log into a Wayland desktop, where Fedora 22 the login screen now uses Wayland by default.

As to your questions:

how up to date is it? It is cutting edge and works pretty closely with upstream.

how often does it break? It is pretty stable in my personal experience with it. This is to say that I was also using the Beta edition of Fedora 21; never had any major system crashes.

which version of Debian is it most similar to? None that I know of, Debian 'sid' which is unstable is using Linux 3.16; Fedora 22 Beta is using 4.1.

is it compatible with a lot of different hardware like Ubuntu is, or does it require some tweaking to get it to work? You should not have any issue there, however, it may be a little more difficult setting up proprietary drivers.

and what do you think someone should know before jumping into Fedora? Not much, I jumped right into Fedora and found that I liked it better than Ubuntu/Mint.

One thing that I recommend that you consider is possibly trying Korora Linux which is generally a respin of Fedora with the intent of making it more user friendly. It is basically what Ubuntu was to Debian.

so skimming the comments so far, i haven't seen anyone suggest holding T down after the chime. That might also freeze your mac up since its basically the same thing as holding the options button...kinda. if you want to explore the efi inside an os try something like http://refit.sourceforge.net/ or the active fork http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/

I would recommend that you reinstall os x. once you have it installed you can squeeze it down and give fedora the majority of the hdd. its kind of my personal "best practice" when installing an os on a mac.

Hey, looks neat. Couple of comments on your script if you don't mind.

You call dnf multiple times, I assume to make the script look cleaner, but you could put all of your packages into an array and then give that array to dnf like...

packages=(

# i3 basics

nodejs-devel i3 i3lock xdm

# other stuff

dunst xss-lock

)

dnf -y install ${packages[*]}

This is how I prefer to do it in my scripts since dnf is kind of slow and running it multiple times can add up. Also you can pass -y to dnf to install without user interaction. Also also, you could just run the script as a normal user and put a sudo in front of the now-single dnf command. That way all of your dotfiles and such would be owned by your user instead of root.

Always happy to see another i3 (actually I use sway :p) user. Good luck!

Completely different architectures, as viewed here https://wayland.freedesktop.org/architecture.html As you can see X11 is complicated and has many layers, wayland does not. Less layers == smoother/faster performance.

Hava a look at https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/reporting_bugs.html The libinput developers are quite fast to respond to bug reports in my experience. Maybe even a workaround exists.

> also totem video player offers to install the missing h264 codec but the install hangs then stops. Any advice?

I would install mpv from rpmfusion. It's a lot better than Totem IMHO ;)

I'm very much not sure, and judging by you getting this far you may have already been here, but googling a bit brought this up, may be helpful:

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/group__config.html#ga482951a2b1faf837e43d30d9c92dc9d3

I don't see this option in that 'list-props'.

Also, nice keyboard. I've got the Customizer 104 USB from them (they call it something different now) and I love it but I do wish I'd gotten one with the Trackpoint.

Interestingly enough, I have the opposite end of the same problem. I'm maintaining the Terminator terminal emulator program, and there is a snap of some old code on snapcraft.io here and I have no idea how to even get in touch with the "maintainer" of the package on snapcraft and get him to update the snap, because it's a year out of date.

If your Windows EFI files are intact, there isn't big trouble. Look for \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi in your seconds SSD's ESP (UEFI partition). If it's there you can add it to your bootloader or in nvme boot entries.

If you deleted/formated the ESP, but Windows C:\ partition is there, you can boot from Windows PE, Windows Install media or tools like HBCD PE and use bcdboot (like bcdboot C:\Windows /l en-us /s K: /f UEFI, where C:\Windows is the path to the directory with Windows 10 installed, K: is the drive letter assigned to the Windows' ESP)

Should be. But depends on how you configure it. Basically, it has all apps that you can install by terminal, and then, if you install any app from flathub.org, or follow this:

https://flatpak.org/setup/Fedora/

You will also have all flathub apps available.

No need to touch the terminal at all.

Have you looked at man yet?
Run and look at man dnf in terminal for a full list of commands and documentation.

As for other things, there is a handy guide for package manager comparisons
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Rosetta

Written in D for some reason, wierd.

Anyway, just learn Tmux and use regular terminals or something like https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty imo, way more beneficial in long run and Tmux is found on pretty much all unix like systems in official repositories.

Well, I'm currently using it as part of MATE, by replacing the default WM. I'm using it because it's more lightweight than the default WM, and because of the customability of keyboard shortcuts and other functions in the rc.xml file.

As a standalone WM, it's very popular because of that rc.xml file, and also because it's very minimal. You can then choose your own components - a panel, a file manager, a terminal, etc.. It's the go-to WM for building your own desktop.

If you want to go even more "hardcore", there's the world of tiling WMs - have a look at i3wm. With tiling WMs, you can't drag the windows freely - they stick to specific positions/sizes.