Tag: Fedora

Fedora 40, X and Wayland

Good to know:

1. #Fedora isn’t actually removing #Xorg support yet, just dropping it from the default installer.
2. They’ve pushed that change back from Fedora 40 to 41.

https://alternativeto.net/news/2024/3/fedora-workstation-41-to-phase-out-default-gnome-x-org-session-in-favor-of-wayland/

That means I have more time before I “need” to switch to an AMD card or to a distro that still has Xorg for #LinuxGaming. I can keep an alternate X-based session around until I have a better reason to replace the current #Nvidia card. Or who knows, maybe it’ll reach the point where XWayland windows run well enough on Nvidia that I won’t need an X11 session anymore.

(Desktop apps running directly on #Wayland run just fine on here, and judging by the fan speed, use less power than the same apps running on an X11 session of the same desktop.)

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Is there a way to view Gnome Software’s ODRS reviews on the web?

I was looking at user reviews and ratings of software in the Gnome Software application on my Fedora system, and wondered where the user reviews came from. A bit of digging and I found the Open Desktop Ratings System, which apparently is also used by Ubuntu.

But the ratings don’t appear on the website views of Flathub or the Snap store, or any other website I can find, so if I’m researching software, I have to be on my Fedora system to see this set of ratings. (Yes, I can find other user reviews. I’m curious about this collection.)

Is there a website that shows the ODRS reviews/ratings somewhere?

On StackExchange

Moving Windows

I remember easily moving a Windows 10 system to an SSD using Acronis. Not this time. The clone tool isn’t willing to clone *some* partitions instead of a whole disk, so I can’t use that, and the bootable restore tool can’t see the external drive where I put the backup file.

Looking into alternatives. For tomorrow. Or maybe Saturday.

Next morning:

It’s my dual-boot system, so I’ve got a full Linux installation on there anyway. Last night I created an image of the Windows partition, saved it to the external drive (which Linux can see just fine, unlike the so-called universal restore image) and now I’m trying to restore it to the new drive.

Beginning to wonder if it *would* be easier to install Windows fresh and then figure out how to transfer all my saved games. All the other data is easy.

That evening:

I did a clean install, copied my AppData folders, got everything working…then discovered I couldn’t boot it without going through the BIOS screen. I’d accidentally booted the install image without UEFI, so it installed MBR. I couldn’t get GRUB2 to chain load it & the Windows UEFI boot loader could only see the old installation I wanted to remove.

So I did ANOTHER clean install, in UEFI mode, but this time set aside just the save files I wanted.

Bleah.

But it’s working now!

I’ve got UEFI loading GRUB2, which can boot Fedora or chain to the Windows UEFI menu, which will load the shiny new installation of Windows.

Now I just need to figure out how to tell the Windows boot menu that the alternate Windows installation isn’t there anymore & remove it from the list!