hacktheworld
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I'm used to using Debian-based operating systems. Can you please tell me a little more about Mageia-Linux to understand if it is a suitable operating system for me?
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Try it out in a vm and see what you think of it for yourself, you will get a better impression of it then?
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hacktheworld
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Thank you, from the reviews of the Linux sites and from the Mageia-Linux home page, I have a very good impression, but I still haven't figured out what it's based on, and if you have to install an App using the terminal which command should I use, if I understand correctly instead of apt I will have to use dnf (?) Can I install flatpak with Mageia-Linux?
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Mageia is a spin off from the old Mandrake Distro. Which uses RPM package management. They use a gui package manager call rpmdrake and terminal manager call urpmi, not dnf that's a fedora system.
See here for more info
See here for more info
and here
URPMI - Mageia wiki
wiki.mageia.org
It's an independent distribution.
That's the reason if I want to form an opinion of my own is to try it out myself instead of asking what others experiences or opinions are.
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hacktheworld
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Inquiring first about an operating system from those who may know more about it seems ligitimate to me.
In any case, I will try Mageia-Linux because I am very interested in it.
I agree that the best way to understand if it will suit your needs (and to answer these questions) is to use a virtual machine (or a live boot) and then to explore it on your own. That and a search engine to help you along when you have questions or get stuck...
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Thank you very much!!
I found this interesting post on Linux.org:
I think you can find an answer to all of your questions with a search engine, more or less.
This is going to sound insane - but I've been enjoying the "AI" answers given by the Brave browser lately. I don't blindly take them as fact and don't ask anything serious, but so far the results have been surprisingly good and, more importantly, useful.
It being "new" tech, I sanity check things in my head and will do further research where needed. Still, the results have been pretty good.
The results for this one isn't very good - but you can keep poking in additional questions, which is where it gets pretty handy.
Using Mageia Linux
Mageia Linux is a user-friendly and visually appealing Linux distribution that offers a range of desktop environments including KDE Plasma, GNOME, and Xfce. It is known for its extensive software library and comprehensive documentation, which can be helpful for users looking to explore its...
search.brave.com
Let that load and wait patiently at the top of the page. It should output some additional text after a few seconds.
Most of the time it won't be useful to use because different people have different opinions and experiences with different things. If you ask for example two people what do you think vegan meat, one will say it's really great the best meat I ever tasted, the other will say it's total crap doesn't even taste like meat. Two people with two different views of the world and life, who are you going to believe? Better to try it yourself so you can form your own opinion and then ask a question if you still have a question like. I tried vegan meat, it wasn't bad but is there a way to make it taste better?
You can apply the same thing to Linux distributions, also there's enough views and opinions on any Linux distribution on various Linux forums and sub-Reddits. I haven't seen anyone here use it as a daily driver so better to look there for what people think about Mageia.
Sometimes asking others is quite useful, for example I found the reply at post #4 by @kc1di enlightening.
Yeah it is, but that can be found using creative search terms in a search engine. Asking questions is more useful for things that are harder to find or cannot be found or to get better understanding of something you know a little about already but are trying to understand it better.
Like I'm not going to ask a question here. Can anyone tell me how to make chicken soup, I would like to know the recipe? I would just Google the recipe, then read it. Then after reading the recipe and I didn't understand something, I would say hey @osprey it says in the recipe I have to cut up a chicken but can it be a duck too?
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Guys, thank you very much for your interesting and useful posts. I installed Mageia alongside two other Linux distributions.I chose Plasma as Desktop Environment which is very nice.The interface of Plasma is elegant and has a lot of features available and everything is easily intuitable, so I would call it user-friendly. As far as installing extra programs to the software manager, I encountered some difficulties but I was able to solve them (with a some effort). In many things Mageia is very different from Debian-based distributions, but you just have to get into the optics and realize that you are using a special distribution. I am very satisfied that I installed Mageia.
I also installed Mullvad VPN although with some difficulty because it was missing a dependency, but the best way to solve the dependency problem was by installing Gdebi, downloading the deb file and, using the terminal, in the Downloads directory using sudo dpkg -i [packege name] I prefer to use the xfce terminal because I find it better than Konsole (which is installed by default).
Mageaia is an experience to be had and I suggest it to all those who are looking for a different but efficient and beautiful distribution, (it looks very good with Plasma desktop).
I also installed Mullvad VPN although with some difficulty because it was missing a dependency, but the best way to solve the dependency problem was by installing Gdebi, downloading the deb file and, using the terminal, in the Downloads directory using sudo dpkg -i [packege name] I prefer to use the xfce terminal because I find it better than Konsole (which is installed by default).
Mageaia is an experience to be had and I suggest it to all those who are looking for a different but efficient and beautiful distribution, (it looks very good with Plasma desktop).
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@kc1di - only half correct there, Dave, I'm afraid. And understandable with your links provided, Mageia can be a bit ragged around the edges with their documentation.
Mageia does allow the use of dnf,
Many if not most of their packages are .rpm .
You can use Jarret's article referred to by the OP in his #8 as a good start - but be sure you read my comments there at #2 where I correct him somewhat regarding yum, dnf and urpmi.
Whereas at the time I posted that I was using urpmi, I have reinstalled since then, and am exclusively using dnf at the command line.
You should choose between one and the other when you install, and not mix them up, if you want best results.
As for the graphical frontend (GUI-based) - RPMDrake is installed as default, but you can also choose to install DNFDragora.
Both RPMDrake and DNFDragora resemble Synaptic Package Manager, used in the Debian-based distros, so they are not too big a learning curve.
HTH
Wizard
You don't know a lot about Mageia, it seems.
These DEs (desktop environments) are available
Cheers
Wizard
My apologies, you are correct, I don't know a lot about Mageia.
I always try a distro as a VM before posting a comment about one.
The negative was more about the DE rather than the distro.
Thanks for the clarification, as I said been quite sometime since I've used Mageia.@kc1di - only half correct there, Dave, I'm afraid. And understandable with your links provided, Mageia can be a bit ragged around the edges with their documentation.
Mageia does allow the use of dnf,
Many if not most of their packages are .rpm .
You can use Jarret's article referred to by the OP in his #8 as a good start - but be sure you read my comments there at #2 where I correct him somewhat regarding yum, dnf and urpmi.
Whereas at the time I posted that I was using urpmi, I have reinstalled since then, and am exclusively using dnf at the command line.
You should choose between one and the other when you install, and not mix them up, if you want best results.
As for the graphical frontend (GUI-based) - RPMDrake is installed as default, but you can also choose to install DNFDragora.
Both RPMDrake and DNFDragora resemble Synaptic Package Manager, used in the Debian-based distros, so they are not too big a learning curve.
HTH
Wizard
