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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: Nobara
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 01:18:40 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 15:39:56 -0400, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote
in <ja38O.39375$Inzb.1117@fx13.iad>:

> On 2024-06-05 1:25 p.m., vallor wrote:
>> On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 16:05:07 -0000 (UTC), vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
>> wrote in <v3q2bj$10r0j$2@dont-email.me>:
>> 
>>> Which Nobara spin to test?  There are three:
>>>
>>> Original KDE special theme Vanilla Gnome Vanilla KDE
>>>
>>> ?
>> 
>> Just tried the original spin -- Wayland keeps freezing up on me using
>> the nouveau driver.  (Never got the chance to get it on the NVIDIA
>> binary blob.)
>> 
>> Most importantly, the networking is stupid.  I don't know if that's
>> Fedora or Nobara, but it hangs looking for a DHCP address on my SAN
>> connection.  I configured my Synology Diskstation to give it an
>> address, so I got past that, and to the point where I could set up the
>> Internet connection semi-manually.
>> 
>> Also, I did see the warning about "Nobara 39" being past end-of-life,
>> which I assume is based on Fedora 39's timetable.
>> 
>> What it *has* done is inspired me to look at modern Plasma as a
>> desktop.  I liked what I saw from the pinnable menus.
>> 
>> TL;DR: wait for Nobara 40.
> 
> I'll say this much: I'm glad that I'm not the only one who faced
> troubles with it. It confirms that it might indeed be a problem with the
> distribution itself and only itself. However, that leaves me with Fedora
> alone since I would want to use the asusctl package which is developed
> with Fedora in mind. I'm not convinced that Fedora will play nice with
> some of my other hardware, regardless of how polished it seems to be.

I installed asusctl on Mint for my tufbook -- there are
instructions on the asus-linux web site.

It's not a supported configuration though, and installing
from source involves adding build systems, Rust, and a bunch
of other buzzwords.  I can't explain why they would make it
so you have to basically be a developer to install it on non-Fedora
systems.

-- 
-v