Project: Moving main laptop to Korora 25 Desktop
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@black3dynamite said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Tim_G Sorry to here that. If you are willing, try out Fedora 26 Alpha. Its possible you might need a more recent kernel.
I'll try it out in a dual-boot fashion when I have more time. By then 26 should be out of alpha. We'll see.
I still have it on my main work computer as a daily driver, so it's not like I'm missing out.
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TBH I've got relatively good experince only on high end gear with laptops: my thinkpad t440 works really smooth with debian on it - since day 0! Anyway power management still is a bit of PITA.
mid-low range: never got full system capabilities, too much windows-only-in-mind design (including non standard ACPI implementations in bios). My previous ASUS barebone was almost perfect but the previous acer was a FULL PITA.
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@Tim_G Seems like your Korora/Fedora install issues are all hardware related?
Last night, I downloaded MediaWriter & installed Korora on my 2015 MacBook Pro...not a single problem with the install.
I'm in the process of using @Tim_G post to do all the updates & add virtualization.
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@JaredBusch said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Also, didn't @scottalanmiller have problems with the Fedora/RHEL family on his?
Yeah, would not install at all. Different model, though. Mint wouldn't work either. But Ubuntu standard was fine.
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Yeah I know its just my hardware. Its working perfectly fine on my work computer and laptop. That's the whole reason I wanted to make the switch on my personal laptop, because it was working so damn well on those.
Turns out a Fedora distro doesn't like my hardware and I don't have the time to make it work.
I'll probably dual boot later and try straight debian or Ubuntu. Might have better luck with one of those.
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@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Yeah I know its just my hardware. Its working perfectly fine on my work computer and laptop. That's the whole reason I wanted to make the switch on my personal laptop, because it was working so damn well on those.
Turns out a Fedora distro doesn't like my hardware and I don't have the time to make it work.
I'll probably dual boot later and try straight debian or Ubuntu. Might have better luck with one of those.
If hw is an issue go ubuntu. Debian is more picky
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@matteo-nunziati said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Yeah I know its just my hardware. Its working perfectly fine on my work computer and laptop. That's the whole reason I wanted to make the switch on my personal laptop, because it was working so damn well on those.
Turns out a Fedora distro doesn't like my hardware and I don't have the time to make it work.
I'll probably dual boot later and try straight debian or Ubuntu. Might have better luck with one of those.
If hw is an issue go ubuntu. Debian is more picky
Yeah I will try Ubuntu just to have something that works. I wish I could use my distro of choice though. But I guess if there were hundreds of current versions of Windows none of them would work as great with most hardware either. So I understand the small support scenario.
I'll dual boot with likely Ubuntu until I get Ubuntu 100% working as needed. Then I'll just blow away tje Windows partitions and extend Ubuntu.
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@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@matteo-nunziati said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Yeah I know its just my hardware. Its working perfectly fine on my work computer and laptop. That's the whole reason I wanted to make the switch on my personal laptop, because it was working so damn well on those.
Turns out a Fedora distro doesn't like my hardware and I don't have the time to make it work.
I'll probably dual boot later and try straight debian or Ubuntu. Might have better luck with one of those.
If hw is an issue go ubuntu. Debian is more picky
Yeah I will try Ubuntu just to have something that works. I wish I could use my distro of choice though. But I guess if there were hundreds of current versions of Windows none of them would work as great with most hardware either. So I understand the small support scenario.
I'll dual boot with likely Ubuntu until I get Ubuntu 100% working as needed. Then I'll just blow away tje Windows partitions and extend Ubuntu.
Yeah, same boat. Ubuntu is good enough, and there are different desktop options for it, although I'm just on unity at this point. Works fine, but Korora would be awfully nice.
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@JaredBusch Any other gotchas or things to be aware of during/after the MBP Korora install?
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@FATeknollogee said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@JaredBusch Any other gotchas or things to be aware of during/after the MBP Korora install?
I had to go into the settings and enable the 2 finger right click, but that was it.
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@JaredBusch said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
I had to go into the settings and enable the 2 finger right click, but that was it.
As in tap 2 fingers on the trackpad for right click?
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@FATeknollogee said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@JaredBusch said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
I had to go into the settings and enable the 2 finger right click, but that was it.
As in tap 2 fingers on the trackpad for right click?
Mine worked out of the box.Was disabled on mine. Just had to choose right button.
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I keep using command + c/v to copy and paste. because muscle memory when the brain knows I am on the laptop.
I can remap it if I want, just have not yet. Trying to decide.
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@JaredBusch said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Was disabled on mine. Just had to choose right button.
Sorry, it was also disabled on mine.
2 finger tap (not click) = right click, worked out of the box.I have to say, I've been on Korora (only for a few hours) - still finding my way around, but, I'm pleasantly surprised.
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I dearly wish that I could swipe between workspaces. Have not even googled that yet though.
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Suddenly half the community is running Korora
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@scottalanmiller said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Suddenly half the community is running Korora
Was going to start a new thread regarding this same "revelation"!
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@FATeknollogee said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@scottalanmiller said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Suddenly half the community is running Korora
Was going to start a new thread regarding this same "revelation"!
Go for it
I've tried a lot of desktops and it just speaks to me the most. I'm on it right now. -
@FATeknollogee said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@scottalanmiller said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Suddenly half the community is running Korora
Was going to start a new thread regarding this same "revelation"!
We need a roll call
But there are at least five of us suddenly. -
I've just gotten Ubuntu 16.04.2 installed (dual boot). In Windows 10, I shrunk my C volume to give me about 55 GB of unpartitioned space, then rebooted to run the live USB of Ubuntu.
The automatic partitioning is kinda bad, so I will need to fix it to my liking. But that's fine.
It was as easy as selecting a box that pretty much said "Run Ubuntu along side of Windows", and well, here I am. It automatically installed in the unpartitioned space I made before hand.
So far it's working great, though I haven't yet tested everything I want to use. But... I can actually gracefully reboot and shut down my computer now.
I'll give it a day or so and I'll start updating my OP and the reserved areas as I originally had hoped.
