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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.
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.
I use mint, btw
This juxtaposition.
damn, my socks have been shrinking
unrelated, but what on green earth happened in the inbox?
my wifi in mint works perfectly. getting the screen to rotate in tablet mode is another story.
Never had an issue with that, are you perhaps using an Nvidia gpu?
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
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.
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?!
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.
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.
Me: Btw how old are your packages?
Mint: Its rude to ask the age of a distro
Me: well are the maintained properly?
Mint: uhhhh… Some of them are
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
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.
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)
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.
Anecdotally i had to screw around with packages and drivers and updates and what not to get wifi to work on latest Mint with a Broadcom, but nothing egregious or anything.
I’ve run into the same with the latest Ubuntu using a broadcom wireless. Might be a broad failure.
my dads laptop just wouldnt get normal internet on mint. it always said the connecction was good but then nothing worked. on fedora it all just works. (for my own laptop mint was fine)
Shopping for wifi adapters is not fun
TLDR; make quadruple sure that the card you’re buying uses an Intel chip, and that the chip has drivers in the kernel version you use.
