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It’s hilarious, and sad, that the same issues I dealt with nearly 20 years ago, are still the same issues.
Let me get this straight, you want to suspend AND resume?
If you were going to resume anyways then why bother suspending in the first place eh?
I think its because ultimately, most linux users either are using linux professionally, and therefore only care about the professional goals they’ve been assigned to completing, or they tend to be rather insufferable (the type to tell new users to enter sudo -rf --no-preserve-root or pretend that the average user both does not need any powerful features, but is also too lazy and stupid to use powerful features, but should still switch to linux to be berated for some reason).
That combines with the biggest thing: That there isn’t the money to go into developing things for linux that there is for mac or windows because the people aren’t there, and the people arent there because linux is basically for snobbish elitists, the fringe of society or professionals, AND has all the problems of that catch 22 in the first place, which further concentrates the worst people being the ambassadors for linux, like the real, felt ambassadors, like what someone actually runs into when trying to switch.
I do think Valve is doing a pretty heavy lift right now, and I am very glad they picked KDE, a DE that focuses on open ended pragmatism.
But don’t worry, 2025 is the year of the Linux desktop
This juxtaposition.
Leaving aside Arch and Nix for the moment… imagine rating Ubuntu over Mint. The depravity of the human mind know no limits.
I know, I’m a huge fan of Mint, but only the Debian edition as Canonical keeps going in a direction I will not follow happily. It isn’t just that snap sucks in my opinion, its that they decided to replace apt-installed packages with snaps and it feels like a slippery slope that could lead to issues.
unrelated, but what on green earth happened in the inbox?
They’ll never see your question
I wonder where RHEL would fall in that scale?
Damn, I need to buy longer socks.
You really do not. You’re all good.
damn, my socks have been shrinking
I use mint, btw
Hey Mint could I have audio please?
Mint: No and never ask again.
I still use it though.
So I’m not the only one?!
Use kernel 6.14.0-29, everything works perfectly.
The newer ones gives me that issue.
The only way i notice to fix the sound was to update my BIOS
Just installed Trisquel on my old laptop and Linux does not have drivers for my laptop. I had to plug it in directly. Sucks.
From my personal experience, ubuntu has been way easier (more of “it just works”) than linux mint. What’s the reason behind people preferring and recommending mint? Is it only the UI?
It’s recommended because of snap, and ubuntu doing malicious things with snap.
Flathub by default, I just really dislike snaps lol. Ubuntu studios prob a good rec for ppl new to linux and wanting to see what good free creative software is available.
Gnome is hot trash, but no, it’s recommended because it’s been recommended since the 2000s…it’s just momentum.
Marginally better UI means nothing to me if the distro can’t handle basic features like audio through HDMI, therefore I’ll choose pretty much any distro over mint.
Me: Btw how old are your packages?
Mint: Its rude to ask the age of a distro
Me: well are they maintained properly?
Mint: uhhhh… Some of them are
me: Btw how old are your packages?
fedora: this was committed by some random guy this morning and not even on the main branch, have fun
Most people don’t care about version numbers of CLI software/drivers. For GUI apps there’s flatpak/snap or whatever is the official method a dev chose.
That’s a big part of why I switched to OpenSuse XD
Well. I have an issue and I’m just gonna drop it here as a last ditch effort.
In my Mint Software Manager, I noticed that certain data won’t come through.
Specifically the reviews are not displayed. All applications have 4.5 stars. No reviews whatsoever.
How could I fix this?
Can you confirm that you are connected to internet?
If you want people to help you, they’ll need logs. To get them,
- close the software manager if running
- type
mintinstallin the terminal, then press Enter - copy the result with “right-click > copy” or “ctrl+shift+C”
Send me that and I can give it a look. Can’t promise much though, I’m not a Mint user. When you have Mint issues, consider asking in the Mint forum
Ashamed to admit. I’ve tried many things but a reboot was eventually the thing that worked.
Sorry for wasting time. I just booted this thing up to get the logs and it already worked.
In my 10mn of testing on the live .iso, I found that if the
reviews.jsonfile was missing it silently retried to download it.Once the file was downloaded, after a restart, the reviews were visible. But the download was interrupted if I closed the app before letting it finish.
I would guess this is why it appeared this time. You just gave it enough time to download the precedent time you ran the app. Not peak UX design. Can’t be bothered to open an issue though :shrug:
Usual suspect, the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card. Milk spoils? Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Card! Freshly divorced? Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card!
Not true, sometimes it’s DNS.
What really annoyed me is, that for some goddamn reason fedora renamed or removed the dnf command to add repository’s and now each time I want to add a repository I have to write the config file by hand.
Been using Fedora on several laptops and desktops, and haven’t had issues with wifi. Or with anything else for that matter. For me, everything in Fedora just works and never breaks.
The first bug I’ve seen was recently. Apparently an update broke the ‘shutdown and update’ function in Fedora Workstation. So now when you press it, nothing happens. Then when you try shutting down, the PC will shut down without updating. It’ll update and shutdown upon next boot. Can confirm Fedora KDE is unaffected though.
For me, everything in Fedora just works and never breaks.
Apparently an update broke the ‘shutdown and update’ function in Fedora Workstation.
Hmmmmmmm
I remember this sort of stuff a long time ago. There were wifi drivers that were either linux, but closed source, or horror of horrors having to resort to ndiswrapper…
Of course, the Ubuntu derivatives made this easy enough by just including it, but Fedora was much more purist about open source and so wouldn’t even tell you about rpm-fusion, let alone enable proprietary drivers for basic network access.
Now Fedora has edged a bit more practical and proactively let’s users know about how to add proprietary stuff and the wifi industry takes Linux seriously, if not for desktop use then for all the embedded use cases they would be left out of without good Linux support. Fedora is still a bit far on the ‘purist’ side still (try to play a lot of media using dnf provided software, it will tend to break), but not as hard as it used to be)
And Kinonite by extension. I updated and restarted because I like fresh kernels.
Don’t judge me, it’s my kink OK. In my sad, pathetic little white bread life in the middle of nowhere.
Tried Fedora KDE just recently, and apparently the latest version broke something and you just get a black screen on some laptops, fresh install and all. Found some random ISO someone posted and that one worked, but kinda crazy it’s been over a month that this is known to not work and the official ISO is still borked
The fix is to use a grubby command to disable rhgb at boot. You can find the fix in the fedora discussion website.
I don’t know if it’s been officially fixed yet, but I’m holding the update for a laptop until it’s fixed.
Well one would surely want the pretty boot screen that affords.
This sounds like an old Nvidia gpu quirk
Nah, it actually affected my main laptop with a modern amd cpu 😅.
I’m actually more into seeing what happens with my computer so it’s not an issue for me, but for fedora users like my gf it might be lame to have it boot up to the back screen (she has a laptop with similar specs).
Am I the o oy one on Kubuntu? The 25.10 install is amazingly stable with one exception that gwenview continuously kills the audio server when it plays a video. Then again, gwenview has always been quite horrible, i should find something better
I’ve had Fedora on a Thinkpad X300, Thinkpad T420 (what I’m typing on right now), and Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 GA402RK. The last has a Mediatek MT7922, unlike the prior 2 with Intel wireless – and they all have worked flawlessly.
OP looks like a realtek meme. Fedora won’t include blobs so realtek was a pain.
Intel wifi ftw
Distro hoping is fine. But there is a certain feeling you get when you can fix your own problems by reading the arch wiki
I love fixing arch by reading the arch wiki, or fixing ubuntu reading the arch wiki
I tried to find a solution for my failing marriage in the arch wiki. The arch wiki instructed me that the problem was consulting the arch wiki. Thanks for saving my marriage, arch wiki!
I set up my login manager for fedora and my grub for fedora using the arch wiki…
Distro hoping is fine.
Yeah. I hope my distro keeps working as smooth as always. I really hope.
How to enter arch wiki if no internet
For shit and giggles, it should be on Arch Wiki too.
Well, shit. Got 2 tebibytes to transfer, guess I’d better start now, hey?
Good thing transferring 2 tebibytes is no slower than 2 kibibytes
Just attach two of these bad boys
Instead of a bird can I just use my station wagon full of tapes?
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
MTU is technically infinite, just need a 2TB microSD card.
On your other Arch laptop, obviously. You need multiple pre-owned ThinkPads loaded with Arch at any given time to maintain workable redundancy, just like you need several clean pairs of programming socks.
…“clean”? Well shit, I have some work to do then!:-P
Your optimism about sock cleanliness is wonderful
Phone or use an offline copy
Going to save this link just in case the Internet goes down one day.
I saved the comment so I can download the wiki if I ever lose internet.
I downloaded all the comments so I could read them in case the Internet stops existing.
I’ve still got a backup copy of The Internet from back in the day when you could install The Internet on your computer using a cd which arrived in the post. I also have a backup pile of optical drives so if necessary I can burn you a copy of The Internet and post it to you? Though I haven’t got a copy of the postal service.
Knowledge don’t rust. What happened happened. It’s static. Sometimes we discover that a speck of dust was in the wrong place, but we got it more or less right. I mean, I could look up shit in our 50 year old encyclopedia and it would still be mostly correct…
Not sure that’ll work, I’ll paste the Wiki here
Beginning with Part 1 of 1,204:
Another option that’s available is hosting your own Kiwix instance and downloading the Arch Wiki .zim file.
I have a few other .zim’s from the Kiwix library including Alpine Wiki, Stack Overflow, Man pages and a full copy of Wikipedia. There’s a lot available at that Kiwix library which can make for a good offline digital library.
Whenever I have a Linux box without Internet I just USB tether an Android phone—if the phone is on WiFi then it uses that (not cell), so it’s basically just a WiFi adapter that’s almost universally supported. (I think it NATs, so in some circumstances won’t work, but good enough for most emergency use cases.)
I’ve never tried that. I do the wifi hotspot but what do I need to do USB tether?
The wifi hotspot uses mobile data and requires an active wifi reciever on the computer while the usb tether can use mobile or wifi data and only requires a working usb on the computer.
You basically only plug a usb data cord between the computer and phone, and then activate usb tether in the phones connection settings
I had to look up tethering on my phone to find that USB was an option. I never knew! Thanks! Much easier than remembering to turn off the mobile hotspot, or adding another wifi connection to the computer (hotel or wherever).
Thanks!
Just download it and setup on your own server
I am a nerd with many computers. That helps.
I use the Arch wiki for non arch stuff
That and the man pages
You guys read man pages?
You ever read the man pages for mount?
The ones for goo are especially satisfying.
Should i?
man mountY’all are using Linux for that?
I won‘t lie the Arch Wiki has not helped me once. Odd threads in the forums or 2 minute long Youtube videos, though? Couldn‘t make it without those.
Total oposite experience for me.
