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Experience with KDE on Fedora? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello all, I've been distro hopping a lot lately and have a long term goal of settling on one distro for the family laptops.

Currently it's a smattering of linux distro's and some M$ across all the systems in the house.

In short the fam has had a pretty negative reaction to Gnome for all the usual reasons, so there is a kubuntu instance, Nobara, but the KDE version, Manjaro etc... I kind of want to give Fedora a stint on my laptop and noticed the Fedora spins project and was wondering if anyone has played around with it at all?

I spun up the KDE version in a VM alongside the default Fedora and noticed it's running a newer kernel than the default, which is interesting...

Is it an equal partner in update cycles?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So you convinced me, and not being a novice, I didn't read the install instructions and just went for it. It wrecked my dual boot efi partition. No worries, been there done that before, spent all morning trying to get the eufi shell and grub sorted out. After a few hours of failing, I'm like hey I planned for this, I've got a USB recovery for windows, and my actual data is all backed up via syncthing (thanks to this community). Why am I bothering with this nonsense.

Omg.... Recovering windows takes foreeeeever. So then I'm reading the kenoite instructions and it calls out that dual booting doesn't work, here is a suggested partition scheme... Ffs... Anyway for anyone that doesn't want to waste an entire day on this, rtfm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think most dual booters on Ublu use seperate drives for windows.

And use their BIOS to boot to that drive instead of grub.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Here's the thing about that, my laptop does have two nvme drives, but the second one is strictly for games. It's not negotiable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

FWIW, I've put some effort into explaining how a dual boot of Windows 10 and Fedora Atomic (read Silverblue/Kinoite/Sericea etc) can be achieved. While it's far from exhaustive, it should be fine as long as your specific installation of Fedora Atomic doesn't require special attention (which happens sometimes with owners of an Nvidia GPU*). After Fedora Atomic is successfully installed, proceed with following the instructions found on the following parts of uBlue's documentation: here, here and finally pick whichever uBlue image you'd like to install from this list; specific instructions are found directly underneath the text boxes for each individual image, but ensure you're installing the one with the correct Fedora version (37/38/39/stable/latest etc (which are accessed via tabs)). If you can't decide on which version you'd like to install, then just go for 39.