Another guy switching from windows

[Condobloke]

Could be a good time to take a snapshot of your fedora install and store on an external drive ?

A good read:

How to install and use TimeShift on Fedora

TimeShift is a powerful tool for creating system snapshots, allowing Fedora users to easily backup and restore their system to previous states. This guide walks you through the installation process of TimeShift on Fedora and demonstrates how to use it for effective system backups and restorations.

www.fosslinux.com

 

[f33dm3bits]

I haven't used a printer at home for years, but I've seen people advise to install the printer driver from the vendor. Your printer has a driver available via an rpm package, maybe try that?

https://www.canon-europe.com/support/consumer/products/printers/pixma/ts-series/pixma-ts3350.html?type=drivers&language=EN&os=Linux%20(64-bit)

Others are probably better to advise on this as others have recent experience with this and I don't.

 

[Bogdan666]

I haven't used a printer at home for years, but I've seen people advise to install the printer driver from the vendor. Your printer has a driver available via an rpm package, maybe try that?

https://www.canon-europe.com/support/consumer/products/printers/pixma/ts-series/pixma-ts3350.html?type=drivers&language=EN&os=Linux%20(64-bit)

Others are probably better to advise on this as others have recent experience with this and I don't.

That was one of my previous questions, how do i install software that i have downloaded on desktop. Do i still have to use terminal?

 

[f33dm3bits]

That was one of my previous questions, how do i install software that i have downloaded on desktop. Do i still have to use terminal?

Right click on the downloaded rpm and then select "Open With Software Install", It's Method 1(Use software center) from the following link.

How to Install RPM Files on Fedora and Red Hat Linux

This beginner article explains how to install RPM packages on Fedora and Red Hat Linux. It also shows you how to remove those RPM packages afterward.

itsfoss.com

 

[MzQ1NjExN2]

I've used for Fedora for longer periods of time, never had to disable selinux for anything or enable a selinux boolean to fix something.

I think I had a problem with SELinux when installing pihole. I don't remember what I did exactly to resolve the issue. I think I may have disabled it.

 

[f33dm3bits]

I think I had a problem with SELinux when installing pihole.

Regular users don't install Pihole . I used to run it in a container on CentOS/Rocky always ran fine, after making a few adjustments to the location it ran with selinux, but this was on a server not on a desktop.

 

[Bogdan666]

Problems and thoughts after a while. Celluloid is not even close to vlc, but vlc needs codecs to be installed, after the codecs are installed you get a green screen, then you have to disable codecs from settings and everything is ok...what???
next, why my secondary hdd starts locked? i get errors from file manager and qbittorrent for missing files because i have to unlock my hdd manually. Can i remove this? can my hdd start normally?
next, if i make a new file on the folder called desktop, i don't get that file on desktop, in fact i cannot crate a file on desktop except for widgets and stuff. Why is there a folder called desktop then?
why copy/paste or drag and drop does not work for ark archive viewer.
Why everything has to have at least extra two steps. I get it, it's different, but it can be different in a good way, with no extra steps, easy to use for everyone. It's not intuitive at all, if you have a problem you have to search google, you can't just try stuff out and see what works, i mean you can't just type random letters in terminal and maybe you get a hit...
Honestly i don't get why people hate windows that much, it's not perfect but then again nothing is....

 

[theLegionWithin]

@Bogdan666 --> setting up automounts for drives

for the other things - remember, linux is not windows. in linux "everything is a file".

did you add the free and non-free repos before installing vlc?

sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

I prefer smplayer over vlc, and mostly just use vlc for enqueuing lots of music.

sudo dnf install smplayer smtube smplayer-themes

 

[f33dm3bits]

next, why my secondary hdd starts locked? i get errors from file manager and qbittorrent for missing files because i have to unlock my hdd manually. Can i remove this? can my hdd start normally?

Is that an NTFS or encrypted drive by any chance?

 

[f33dm3bits]

next, if i make a new file on the folder called desktop, i don't get that file on desktop, in fact i cannot crate a file on desktop except for widgets and stuff. Why is there a folder called desktop then?

Are you using Fedora workstation which use Gnome or Fedora KDE which uses KDE Plasma?

 

[Bogdan666]

Thank you, i will check the automount for drives, and i will give smplayer a chance, as for the free and non free repos to be honest i don't know, and i don't know how to check.
Yes, it's a NTFS, the same i was using it on windows
I am using kde plasma.
Btw, if i type something wrong in the terminal and things are worse than before, is there a way to undo things? So like a ctrl+z for terminal? Except saving an snapshot of whole fedora.

 

[theLegionWithin]

Thank you, i will check the automount for drives, and i will give smplayer a chance, as for the free and non free repos to be honest i don't know, and i don't know how to check.
Yes, it's a NTFS, the same i was using it on windows
I am using kde plasma.
Btw, if i type something wrong in the terminal and things are worse than before, is there a way to undo things? So like a ctrl+z for terminal? Except saving an snapshot of whole fedora.

I dont mainline fedora, but I'd hazard a guess to just run the codeblock (in my previous post) to update the repos, then run

sudo dnf update --refresh

I've also never tried to use ntfs in linux, i always set the filesystem to ext4 at install (there's no way to switch between filesystems, so you're looking at a reformat/reinstall if you want to go that route)

no, there's no universal "undo" command in the terminal. to undo an action you need to understand the action to know how to fix it.

dont worry too much about borking a system beyond repair (hopefully you have the data you care about backed up somewhere else) - just about everyone screws up their first few installs. it's a rite of passage - reinstalling 4 or 5 times is good experience!

 

[Bogdan666]

Yes, the data i have is on that secondary drive, and that is backed by an external drive. So in theory i could reformat that drive. I found an automount function and i managed to make it mount automatically, but still asks for password right at the login, i have to check if i can bypass that somehow. As for the magic "undo" it was a question like it happened before with my printer tab suddenly disappearing from system settings. If that happens again i have to reinstall fedora, or go back to a snapshot.

 

[MzQ1NjExN2]

Ok, so, a few updates. my task was simple, get the iso from a few distributions, boot them, install vlc and just open a movie, just to see what's what. However, ubuntu, mint and zorin, none of them could actually open the program manager or how is it called to install vlc, it just stayed on a blank screen and loading... browsing firefox was also a pain in the but while waiting 30sec for google homepage to appear. So i got a little further and tested also plasma from fedora, and it ran like a dream...except the fact that i needed a few codecs for vlc, but i will try also other players like you guys recommended previously, also i will give gimp a chance.
Should i choose fedora over debian? will i have the same issues when it will be actually installed on my ssd instead of a live version? To be honest i don't care that the interface looks nothing like windows, it's a new os, should feel like new and i am open to learning new stuff anyways.

Honestly i don't get why people hate windows that much, it's not perfect but then again nothing is....

This is why I recommended Mint. It has an option to install the codecs and its designed for people who are new to Linux. I think the issues you were having with Mint was because you were running it off a live USB. Its much slower. Try out the full install. Mint will be much easier than Fedora for you.

If you want to stick with Plasma try MX KDE as I mentioned above. It has GUI tools for a lot of things so you won't need to use terminal much. Its a Debian based distro. FYI.

Anyway I first used Linux in 2008 or so then quit and came back a few years ago. I thought I knew how to use a computer until I got comfortable with Linux. If you stick with it it will pay off.

 

[theLegionWithin]

Yes, the data i have is on that secondary drive

good

i managed to make it mount automatically, but still asks for password right at the login, i have to check if i can bypass that somehow.

you'll want to update /etc/fstab - it's a bit involved (not that difficult but there's a process) - this video looks like it has a decent walkthrough:

As for the magic "undo" it was a question like it happened before with my printer tab suddenly disappearing from system settings.

another chance for more experience! printers/setting up cups can be either easy or mind-numbingly difficult - sometimes both. there's quite a few posts on the forum regarding printers/cups.

@MzQ1NjExN2 makes a good point, MX is a good place to start. I started there but I switched to a different distro after I got used to how things worked.


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as an example with fstab, here's mine, and then lsblk after it - you can see how the mounts are set up/what they resolve to (not sure why dysk shows my external ssd's as hdd's but whatever - it works, and that's all that matters )

 

[Alexzee]

Yes, the data i have is on that secondary drive, and that is backed by an external drive. So in theory i could reformat that drive. I found an automount function and i managed to make it mount automatically, but still asks for password right at the login, i have to check if i can bypass that somehow. As for the magic "undo" it was a question like it happened before with my printer tab suddenly disappearing from system settings. If that happens again i have to reinstall fedora, or go back to a snapshot.
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By asking for the password at log in do you mean before it loads the desktop?
OR> did you encrypt the drive and it wants that password?

Also, you shouldn't have to keep re-installing Fedora for the printer to show.
Updating the system after the first boot of the fresh installation should give you all you need for the printing API to be there and work after setting up the printer.

Did you check the integrity of the Fedora .iso before you installed it?
Does CUPS know about your printer?

Is your printer usb or wifi only?

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[Risque]

Hello everyone, i am new to this and having some free time around the holidays i start my mission to switch from windows permanently. I have used ubuntu more than 10 years ago, but only briefly, and then it seemed a little strange, but i had this change in mind for at least 5 years ever since i quit gaming. Hurray for me. I have done some reading about distributions, and came across mint or zorin, maybe they fulfil my needs??
Speaking of needs, my needs are simple, i use brave, qBittorrent, office, vlc for movies and a cracked photoshop (kinda important), and a canon printer with scanner.
PC specs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X, 32Gb RAM, GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER.
Questions: Do the distributions mentioned above have possibilities to run the programs mentioned above? are both suitable for "beginners" ?

If you must run windows programs and you're new to this, check out this vid which might make life easier when you start hearing about docker containers or wine.

 

[Bogdan666]

Happy new year everyone.
I did not expect this to happen, fedora kept crashing, brave kept crashing, bug report does not work. Keeps ask me for password for everything, i disabled power saving, sleep and other stuff, it still locked my screen after 5 minutes. I couldn't automount my secondary drive without password. So i gave mint and ubuntu another shot...again.
I downloaded mint, i could not install it, it got stuck even when booting as live, tried a different server for download, same thing.
I downloaded ubuntu, worked ok as live version this time, it got half way while installing, until it decided that's it, i am gonna be stuck at this screen...
Made a stick with windows 11, took 10min, everything is ok...I still want to quit windows for personal reasons, but not like this.
All i hear oh linux is stable, perfect, no crashes, no restart required, easy but you need to be open for change. Well, i was open to change but my experience for the last few days says otherwise. i gave it more than 1 chance, tried out different distributions, tried out different combinations, but to be honest something is not ok when not even a live version works.
Final thought, linux is very good for servers and it should stay that way. Using a PC at home should be easy.
I dare you to try windows11....If you can get over their adds and the fact that keeps loosing IP when set for DHCP and you have to put it manually and they keep asking to but stuff from microsoft which you can avoid easily, as an OS it actually works flawlessly.

 

[CaffeineAddict]

fedora kept crashing, brave kept crashing, bug report does not work. Keeps ask me for password for everything

All i hear oh linux is stable, perfect, no crashes, no restart required, easy but you need to be open for change.

You shouldn't have dismissed my suggestion only because of an "if" statement

i gave it more than 1 chance, tried out different distributions, tried out different combinations, but to be honest something is not ok when not even a live version works.

Made a stick with windows 11, took 10min, everything is ok

This tells me you were expecting Linux distros to behave and work like Windows?

Linux is NOT Windows

Happy new year!

 

[MzQ1NjExN2]

Happy new year everyone.
I did not expect this to happen, fedora kept crashing, brave kept crashing, bug report does not work. Keeps ask me for password for everything, i disabled power saving, sleep and other stuff, it still locked my screen after 5 minutes. I couldn't automount my secondary drive without password. So i gave mint and ubuntu another shot...again.
I downloaded mint, i could not install it, it got stuck even when booting as live, tried a different server for download, same thing.
I downloaded ubuntu, worked ok as live version this time, it got half way while installing, until it decided that's it, i am gonna be stuck at this screen...
Made a stick with windows 11, took 10min, everything is ok...I still want to quit windows for personal reasons, but not like this.
All i hear oh linux is stable, perfect, no crashes, no restart required, easy but you need to be open for change. Well, i was open to change but my experience for the last few days says otherwise. i gave it more than 1 chance, tried out different distributions, tried out different combinations, but to be honest something is not ok when not even a live version works.
Final thought, linux is very good for servers and it should stay that way. Using a PC at home should be easy.
I dare you to try windows11....If you can get over their adds and the fact that keeps loosing IP when set for DHCP and you have to put it manually and they keep asking to but stuff from microsoft which you can avoid easily, as an OS it actually works flawlessly.

I used a variety of distributions and brave. None of them crash. In fact can't remember the last time my machine crashed other than when it goes over the RAM on my machines with low RAM. In fact I've used a variety of laptops, desktops, and a chromebook. All run Linux well. Its either your machine or your doing something wrong.

Try this one:
"XFCE

MX Linux – Xfce was the first version we released. It is a midweight desktop environment that aims to be fast and low-resource, while still being attractive and user-friendly. It augments the native Xfce configuration with unique features:

Modular core components for the full functionality expected from a modern desktop environment.
A collection of powerful and handy “MX Tools” that cover a range of actions from Boot Options to Repository management.
A fast Package Installer covering Popular Applications, MX Test Repo, Debian Backports and Flatpaks.
An extensive collection of wallpapers, themes, conkies and icon sets for customization.

It supports a large range of hardware from older laptops to modern desktops. Available in Standard Debian Stable and “Advanced Hardware Support” enabled versions."

MX Linux – Midweight Simple Stable Desktop OS

mxlinux.org

I'm actually going to try out KDE for the first time today. I'm going with MX KDE. Who knows maybe I'll switch to KDE if its better.