TIL that #aspell (I assume on my #Fedora #Linux system) does not recognize "documents" as a valid word, instead, presumably, thinking that the plural of document is itself.

Is #English okay?

A colleague gave me an old Macbook Pro 9.2, which was too slow even to open Safari or read emails...

After upgrading the ram from 4 to 16gb, changing the old HDD for a new SSD, installing #Fedora... I made a Zoom call while I had 20 tabs open on Firefox, with Nextcloud, Thunderbird, Telegram and Emacs open in the background.

But the thing that amazed me was the strange sense of #empowerment (?) I felt during the process.

A rough week for Fedora Kinoite users (at least for this one) https://zola.passthejoe.net/blog/fedora-kinoite-rough-week/

Another saturday, another blog post from my #fedora stuff and more.

In this issue see where I explain why recent ostree caching issues were all my fault. :(

And a bunch of babbling about #HomeAssistant stuff

https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2025/03/08/early-march-infra-bits-2025/index.html

Hey #SCaLE22x, I've used @thunderbird for 20 years. Come find me at the #Fedora booth for your bingo.

I think I just ran into a great example of how different tasks can require different energy levels that don't necessarily match their "difficulty".

I recently got a "new to me" laptop and at first set it up with Fedora Workstation but quickly realized I much prefer Fedora Silverblue (not the point of this post, so I won't get into why here) and needed to re setup everything. I didn't want to click through a ton of apps in GNOME Software and install them all individually then organize them in the overview.

So instead of doing all that manually I wrote a bash script from scratch to:

- remove any rpm packages I didn't want
- remove any flatpaks I didn't want
- reinstall fedora flatpaks from flathub
- remove the fedora flatpaks repo
- layer the few rpm packages I wanted
- install all the flatpak apps I wanted.
- create custom folders in the overview
- sort all the apps in those custom folders
- pin my most used apps to the dock

This felt like it required way less energy for me. Not because it was easier or faster. In fact I'm really rusty at bash scripting and I didn't even know how to organize the overview from the terminal, so I even had to learn something new and it probably took me way longer. But writing a little script was more fun for me and therefore didn't feel draining or overwhelming like the tedious task of clicking around for a couple hours would have.

#Linux #Fedora #Silverblue #BashScript #ADHD

First, did you know @mediawiki is on Mastodon?

Second, here's how you can install it on Fedora and downstream distros!

https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-install-mediawiki-on-fedora-centos-and-rhel-servers/

After quite a few years using a lot of GNOME and a little Xfce, I am really enjoying KDE Plasma in Fedora Kinoite.

Plasma looks and works the same in the Debian (Bookworm and Testing) and Fedora KDE (41) live environments.

It's so far, so good with new Fedora Kinoite deployments.

I had one display lockup (likely during an automatic suspend) with 3/5. Now I'm on 3/6, and nothing crashy/freezy has happened yet.

As RISC-V continues to develop as an architecture, learn about how Fedora is working in this space to enable RISC-V support!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnq08SNx1O8

In my process of becoming a unix greybeard, I have effectively transformed my #Fedora installation into a poor man's #Debian.
Every time a new fedora release comes out, I upgrade from the then third-latest version to the then second-latest version.
My other computer is simply debian of course.

I bought a refurbished ThinkPad to run Linux on. Am I a true Linux nerd yet?

For those curious:
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 8th Gen

#ThinkPad #X1Carbon #Fedora #Linux

How often do you check what's available in our Copr repos? While you should check with trepidation, there are still some cool projects to check out.

We're highlighting Spotify Qt, Ghostty, Zen Browser, and LACT!

https://fedoramagazine.org/4-cool-new-projects-to-try-in-copr-for-march-2025/

Interesting discussion on Reddit about an immutable / atomic version of #elementaryOS. I've really enjoyed using #Fedora #Silverblue for a couple years now, but I tinker with other OSes, including elementary, on spare machines. The idea the discussion proposes kind of intrigues me...

https://www.reddit.com/r/elementaryos/comments/1ix256i/how_would_you_like_a_immutable_elementaryos/

My last good update for Fedora Kinoite was on 2/24. The 2/26 update broke the ability of Flatpak browsers to upload, freezing the screen in the process. There were other random freezes as well.

Due to whatever problem Fedora Infrastructure is having with Cloudfront, I haven't been able to update since then.

I pinned the 2/24 deployment, but it's getting on at this point.

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/atomic-desktop-update-error-server-returned-http-502/146178

https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/12427

wow, Fedora has some pretty wild networking problems going on for days now and apparently no one is working on them. Took me six tries to log into Discussions right now.

Somebody want to drop by Red Hat and help them figure out how to turn the server back on?

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/atomic-desktop-update-error-server-returned-http-502/146178/48

Did you miss the @frameworkcomputer announcements last week? How? They have unveiled two new product offerings as well as continuing their commitment to upgrading your current system!

We are excited not just for these announcements, but also for their increased support of the Linux community as they do so. :)

New Framework 13 AMD Mainboard: https://community.frame.work/t/introducing-the-framework-laptop-13-powered-by-amd-ryzen-ai-300-series/65007

New Framework Desktop: https://community.frame.work/t/introducing-the-framework-desktop/65008

New Framework Laptop 12: https://community.frame.work/t/introducing-the-framework-laptop-12/65009

Coming to #SCaLE22x? Join us at the Fedora+CentOS Classroom on March 6 14:00-17:00 to learn the latest developments and take our packaging workshop. Then see us at booth 102, and see what else is happening.

https://www.centos.org/events/scale22x-2025/

Not sure if #Fedora will release #Fish Shell 4.0 since it's nearly time for the next Beta and requires #Rust

Has anyone tried the Bodhi updates manually on Fedora 41?