Welllll you know me...

Fedora was fun.  But I am back to Pop.  Could not help it.  It just feels better for some reason.

Different theme for me...  a little bright though.

So any linux users out there who have successfully installed and run Lollypop?  Any tips, because I just wanted to try it but... when I kick it off to scan my music folder it hangs my system.

I don't have to use Lollypop, I can use one of a myriad of music apps but... I had heard good things about it so I wanted to take it out for a spin.

I could try building it from scratch.

Link to Fedora 29 / NVidia driver install guide

https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2015/fedora-nvidia-guide/

Fedora NVIDIA Guide

Fedora 29 So Far

Been pretty darn good.

I had noted previously that it is work to get the NVIDIA drivers working, which I did get done, but because of the order of installing drivers PRIOR to installing Steam I ran into issues.

I installed the Flatpak version of Steam instead and got around the issue of starting.  But then found that the Flatpak version of steam does not quite run as well as the installed version.  But it works and I can game so... I am happy enough at the moment!

One thing I will say is that Fedora holds onto a surprising amount of RAM, more than I expected.  It is not "lean and mean."  On the other hand GNOME on Fedora is even smoother than it is on Pop!_OS.  So perhaps the high memory usage is for good reason.  I don't know.

Not complaining, I have plenty of RAM.  More than I should ever need.

Although, that being said, I plan on doubling that with my next build.  :)

Rainy night, Rainy Day

Rain is so great in Arizona.

Rained all night, drizzly today, everything around us is covered in a blanket of fog.  Warming up too, as this storm is sucking in some hotter air mass.

Anyway, hope everyone out there is having a wonderful day!

Ducky One 2 Mini

Still on Fedora, GNOME 3... and everything is just Ducky...

Want to give it a fair shake.  Just in case I did push Pop!_OS back onto my stick.  But so far so good.

I've run into oddities.  I had that one freeze, none since.  There have been a few updates since that freeze so, not sure if it is is pure chance or something actually fixed it, or at least affected it.

The version of Steam (you saw my steam woes) I am running through Flatpak is not the same as the one run under Ubuntu.  At least, I can say with certainty that games I could play I cannot, and games I had trouble playing I have been playing.   So not sure what is up with that.

Have GNOME looking like I want it, so that is cool.

I think I mentioned before that I once again destroyed my good, expensive keyboard.  So my new Ducky One 2 (or something like that) came today!  It is not as heavy as my choice keyboard but it actually feels solid.  More so than my other mechanicals.  I chose the silent reds.  They remind me a lot of browns, but quieter.

It has a USB C connector instead of the usual mini-USB...

Anyway, so far I like it a lot.

GNOME 3 on Fedora

One thing I found interesting on Fedora is that the window buttons (minimize/maximize) are missing, like on Pop!_OS.  On Manjaro and Ubuntu they are present.

Nothing important, I just noticed it today when I was trying to minimize Thunderbird... GNOME Tweaks allows me to enable a minimize button so I did.  I just find that convenient.

HAD A FREEZE!  BOOOOOOOO!  It was completely random and all that was running was a Chrome window, not even a video.  Although there might have been an Ad video running, so there is that.

Since then I have applied TWO Fedora kernel updates so... we shall see if it happens again.  But it is so random... it might not happen now for days.

This seems to be an issue with every version of linux I have tried.  Some are worse than others.  I've run memory tests and my memory is fine.  Disks are all healthy.  Power supply is steady (it is a platinum-badged power supply so it should be decent).

Still not sure then if it really is a kernel thing (scheduler issue of some sort) or something with my NVIDIA 1080 card... drivers... no idea.  Annoying though.

Heck, maybe it has nothing to do with graphics or kernel at all, maybe it is my network driver.  Streamed videos also hit up the network... so...