Journal stoolpigeon's Journal: F21 - F22 Today 6
Support for Fedora 21 is coming to an end and so I decided to upgrade to Fedora 22.
I don't run the default Fedora install, I use the KDE spin. I realize KDE isn't the primary desktop for Fedora, but until now it's been alright. I use Fedora for a lot of reasons but mostly because it is the distro I know. I know it because it is the first distro I used on a regular basis for more than just messing around. I did that because at my work we got a new server running RedHat.
I've really been putting off this update. It's the move from KDE Plasma 4 to 5.
It's taken me all day but I think I have it working. I'm scared to reboot and the next time I have to run an update will probably suck. I had so many stupid things happen today trying to get this to work. The kicker is my second display. Everything is fine if I use the built-in intel graphics or my Nvidia card with one display. But as soon as I added the second everything went to crap.
There were times I could only log into KDE as root. Then - and I'm not sure how - I got it fixed. I mean there is still some weird stuff happening but it seems to mostly work. Both monitors are on and displaying at the resolution I want.
Maybe I can hang in there long enough for this stuff to get smoothed over. I made it through the jump from 3 to 4.
The kicker is though - if I log into Gnome it works without any issues. It's just that I hate Gnome.
I don't use RHEL any more - maybe I need to jump over to Suse or something.
You can't go wrong with Slack... (Score:1)
You may need to use the Nvidia driver though, which might fix the issue you're having now.
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I am using the Nvidia driver - nouveau has never worked for me with this card on this machine. And it's the only card I've ever found that fits the case - it's an Acer that's really compact. I've had it for 6 years or so and I love it - but at some point I may need to get something new. But I've never seen anything with quite the same form factor. I really like it over the big, big boxes that are normal for so many desktops.
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Sorry, I forgot to mention I'm still on KDE4. And Slack hasn't made an official full update for 2 years now. Their upgrade treadmill runs at a very leisurely pace. KDE5 is probably the issue.
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One of the package managers for KDE on Fedora quit and the reasons were not encouraging. I'm not optimistic for the future of that combination but I'll probably hang in there as long as I can.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.fedoraproject.or... [fedoraproject.org]
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I don't know if it's a Fedora thing. I always have bad luck with KDE's package manager also.
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It's broken now as far as browsing categories - and has been for a while. You can search for specific packages and install them/uninstall them but you can't use apper to just browse through the different types of software available. It's a known issue and I haven't heard anyone mention any ideas on when it would be fixed.