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@_cnt0@sh.itjust.works

Master of Applied Cuntery, Level 7 Misanthrope, and Social Injustice Warrior

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Preparing to move from Ubuntu to Fedora

Hi! I’m seeking some advice and sanity check on hopping from Ubuntu to Fedora on my personal PC. I’ve been using Ubuntu LTS for almost two years now, switched from Windows and never looked back. But I cannot say I know Linux well. I use my PC for browsing, some gaming with Steam (I have AMD GPU), occasional video editing,...

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Two more things that came to mind. If you want to use another desktop environment than gnome (default), you should be aware of spins: fedoraproject.org/spins/

Spins work against the same repositories, they just come with other sets of packages preinstalled.

Also, you said you’re using amd gpu. Fedora has the drivers for that out of the box. But due to fedora’s strict FOSS policy, some hardware acceleration features are stripped out of the amd driver. I mentioned you can get the unstripped drivers from rpmfusion. That is detailed here: rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia

The relevant bit being this:


<span style="color:#323232;">sudo dnf swap mesa-va-drivers mesa-va-drivers-freeworld
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo dnf swap mesa-vdpau-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers-freeworld
</span>

Those packages work together with the drivers from the official repos. They can get out of sync. That never happened to me, yet. But if an update mentions some conflict with mesa-*, just don’t do that update until that conflict disappears. If you ever run into the issue you can also undo the last update with the dnf history commands.

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Enable rpmfusion for media codecs and things like libdvdcss or unrestricted mesa drivers: rpmfusion.org/Configuration

docs.fedoraproject.org/…/installing-plugins-for-p…

Fedora comes out of the box with a curated flatpak repo. You might want to replace that with flathub: flatpak.org/setup/Fedora

Imho, there’s no reason not to enable disk encryption for root. Luks configuration during setup is very straightforward.

If you don’t have nvidia graphics, enable uefi and secure boot (no legacy options). Fedora works well with it out of the box.

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When using open source drivers offloading should be automatic depending on demand. You can make it explicit with DRI_PRIME=0 or DRI_PRIME=1. You’ll have to check which is which.

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I’m more of a fbdev guy.

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What’s the difference between racism and asian people?

Racism has many faces.

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2,511 karma in 3 months. Cute.

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Don’t know, don’t really care. It’s just fake internet points.

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Your meme sucks and you should be ashamed!

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I open the browser, I go to amazon.de, I select a movie. If I have to buy it, amazon gives this funny popup two or three times that informs me that high resolution streaming is not supported on my platform (can’t remember the exact text) which I confirm “yes, I still want to buy it”, and then the player happily streams in full hd (1080p) which is my native resolution. I guess that prompt just checks the user agent string, but the player is happy if it has libwidewine.

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I know that Amazon says that, but I regularly watch stuff in full HD (1080p) on linux in Brave.

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Upvote whore.

https://i.imgur.com/KLWWY.gif

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Great, now all my changes are lost. Thank you very much!

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Thanks Sherlock.

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I make my own “stamps” that I put on all letters and packages I send: https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/15fbcce9-e8e5-4417-a681-119ca664b15a.jpeg

I drew another snail, but I have no picture at hand right now.

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Found my original drawing and scanned it (again): sh.itjust.works/post/9831298

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Yes.

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The fat little happy penguin never resonated with me. And I think it poorly reflects the community. Hence, I’m in favor of a new mascot: tox. https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/980762ff-d7e6-41f9-acc8-edb34772a194.png

Of course, you can put arbitrary distro logos on it.

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Nobody else can tell that the end product is any different, but you know you’re different and special and that’s what matters.

Say you have never used a french press without saying you’ve never used a french press.

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Humwhat?

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https://i.imgflip.com/89y4kv.jpg

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Shouldn’t it be 8.5XFree86 in the land of freedom™?

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THAT SHALL NOT BE NAMED!

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Cheers.

Made the switch to KDE

I’ve been using Fedora for a couple of months now, and have been loving it. Very soon after I jumped into this community (among other Linux communities) and started laughing at all the people saying “KDE rules, GNOME drools,” and “GNOME is better, KDE is for babies.” But then I thought, “Why not give KDE a try? The...

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Welcome to the KDE gang.

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You’re not entirely incorrect. But, KDE is better.

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