Fedora Love

IRJ

@Emad-R said in Fedora Love:

https://ulauncher.io/

Noice !

That's cool.

I haven't tried it but launcher would look weird on GNOME 3.
GNOME 3 search is pretty good already and can do some of what that does.
Now I would definitely use in Desktop Environments like XFCE.

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Gnome Search is already pretty good.

I do like the ability to go to file paths or emojis, but in all actuality is it really that practical when you can open File Manager with a keyboard shortcut?

black3dynamite

@IRJ said in Fedora Love:

@black3dynamite said in Fedora Love:

@Emad-R said in Fedora Love:

https://ulauncher.io/

Noice !

That's cool.

I haven't tried it but launcher would look weird on GNOME 3.
GNOME 3 search is pretty good already and can do some of what that does.
Now I would definitely use in Desktop Environments like XFCE.

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Gnome Search is already pretty good.

I do like the ability to go to file paths or emojis, but in all actuality is it really that practical when you can open File Manager with a keyboard shortcut?

Not as smooth as ulauncher but we can use alt+f2 and then type the path to have Nautilus open to that path.

Emad R

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@scottalanmiller said in Fedora Love:

mprove over 7zip?

YOu dont have 7zip in Linux, so you use Peazip cause you can get it for Fedora

scottalanmiller

@Emad-R said in Fedora Love:

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora Love:

mprove over 7zip?

YOu dont have 7zip in Linux, so you use Peazip cause you can get it for Fedora

My Fedora has 7zip.

sudo dnf install p7zip

Ta da

scottalanmiller

If you just want 7zip compression on Linux, that's actually the LZMA algorithm. Nearly all Linux has this natively. 7zip is the front end, not the compression. You only need it on Windows because Windows lacks LZMA natively, but Fedora has it.

So if all you want is 7zip functionality on Fedora, you don't need p7zip, either. You don't need anything. Open your file manager, right click on a file, choose compress. When selecting the file type, choose .xz instead of .tar.gz and ta da, 7zip compression without anything extra to install.

scottalanmiller

And the xz command will do this from the command line, if you don't have a GUI or want to do it from the GUI.

It's built into the tar command, too, if you want to use it that way.

dyasny

I usually install Fedy which covers most of the 3rd party stuff, fonts, etc. Then I also install openvpn and openconnect xfreerdp and terminator.

warren.stanley

I'm tentatively moving into my replacement daily driver - a Fedora Cinnamon Spin flavoured PC. ScreenConnect was problematic until I found @JaredBusch 's post "How to run JNLP files on Fedora Cinnamon with Firefox"

Any love for Flatpak or are most sticking with the native DNF + repos?

JaredBusch

@warren-stanley said in Fedora Love:

Any love for Flatpak or are most sticking with the native DNF + repos?

Flatpak is not ready for prime time yet.

Maybe they will have it more ready for Fedora 30.

Fedora SilverBlue uses that as the only package manager I believe.

Emad R

@warren-stanley said in Fedora Love:

I'm tentatively moving into my replacement daily driver - a Fedora Cinnamon Spin flavoured PC. ScreenConnect was problematic until I found @JaredBusch 's post "How to run JNLP files on Fedora Cinnamon with Firefox"

Any love for Flatpak or are most sticking with the native DNF + repos?

I tried them but ended using snaps, wanted to install slack and had some issues under LXqt only snap behaved well.

Also this COPR addons are interesting:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/

warren.stanley

@Emad-R COPR feels a bit like attempts to emulate Ubuntu's use of 3rd party repos? I've seen some interesting projects mentioned in Fedora Magazine

Thanks for the heads-up @JaredBusch , I'll watch that space. I do appreciate the input from everyone actually using and testing this stuff.

JaredBusch

@Emad-R said in Fedora Love:

@warren-stanley said in Fedora Love:

I'm tentatively moving into my replacement daily driver - a Fedora Cinnamon Spin flavoured PC. ScreenConnect was problematic until I found @JaredBusch 's post "How to run JNLP files on Fedora Cinnamon with Firefox"

Any love for Flatpak or are most sticking with the native DNF + repos?

I tried them but ended using snaps, wanted to install slack and had some issues under LXqt only snap behaved well.

Also this COPR addons are interesting:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/

I do not understand COPR. Most people that can build anrpm will just do so and host it. I mean I don't browse the repo list looking for software to install. I hear about it here or elsewhere and then go to the vendor website and follow their install guide.

If said vendor is going to make a rpm, they can just host it themselves and tell people to dnf install https://some.url

Then they can look at getting in to the Fedora repos directly.
Or if there are some non-free sub components, they can get in the RPM Fusion repos.

black3dynamite

@JaredBusch said in Fedora Love:

@Emad-R said in Fedora Love:

@warren-stanley said in Fedora Love:

I'm tentatively moving into my replacement daily driver - a Fedora Cinnamon Spin flavoured PC. ScreenConnect was problematic until I found @JaredBusch 's post "How to run JNLP files on Fedora Cinnamon with Firefox"

Any love for Flatpak or are most sticking with the native DNF + repos?

I tried them but ended using snaps, wanted to install slack and had some issues under LXqt only snap behaved well.

Also this COPR addons are interesting:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/

I do not understand COPR. Most people that can build anrpm will just do so and host it. I mean I don't browse the repo list looking for software to install. I hear about it here or elsewhere and then go to the vendor website and follow their install guide.

If said vendor is going to make a rpm, they can just host it themselves and tell people to dnf install https://some.url

Then they can look at getting in to the Fedora repos directly.
Or if there are some non-free sub components, they can get in the RPM Fusion repos.

It sounds like it does all the hard work into building your packages and repo.

I remember needed to used copr to install restic. Now you can install it directly from Fedora repo.

JaredBusch

@black3dynamite said in Fedora Love:

@JaredBusch said in Fedora Love:

@Emad-R said in Fedora Love:

@warren-stanley said in Fedora Love:

I'm tentatively moving into my replacement daily driver - a Fedora Cinnamon Spin flavoured PC. ScreenConnect was problematic until I found @JaredBusch 's post "How to run JNLP files on Fedora Cinnamon with Firefox"

Any love for Flatpak or are most sticking with the native DNF + repos?

I tried them but ended using snaps, wanted to install slack and had some issues under LXqt only snap behaved well.

Also this COPR addons are interesting:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/

I do not understand COPR. Most people that can build anrpm will just do so and host it. I mean I don't browse the repo list looking for software to install. I hear about it here or elsewhere and then go to the vendor website and follow their install guide.

If said vendor is going to make a rpm, they can just host it themselves and tell people to dnf install https://some.url

Then they can look at getting in to the Fedora repos directly.
Or if there are some non-free sub components, they can get in the RPM Fusion repos.

It sounds like it does all the hard work into building your packages and repo.

I remember needed to used copr to install restic. Now you can install it directly from Fedora repo.

I used COPR once when I was still running Korora 25 to add some package that was not available in the normal repositories. Then when I redid it, i jsut installed it direct without COPR. Wish I could recall WTF it was..

warren.stanley

@black3dynamite said in Fedora Love:

@JaredBusch said in Fedora Love:

@Emad-R said in Fedora Love:

@warren-stanley said in Fedora Love:

I'm tentatively moving into my replacement daily driver - a Fedora Cinnamon Spin flavoured PC. ScreenConnect was problematic until I found @JaredBusch 's post "How to run JNLP files on Fedora Cinnamon with Firefox"

Any love for Flatpak or are most sticking with the native DNF + repos?

I tried them but ended using snaps, wanted to install slack and had some issues under LXqt only snap behaved well.

Also this COPR addons are interesting:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/

I do not understand COPR. Most people that can build anrpm will just do so and host it. I mean I don't browse the repo list looking for software to install. I hear about it here or elsewhere and then go to the vendor website and follow their install guide.

If said vendor is going to make a rpm, they can just host it themselves and tell people to dnf install https://some.url

Then they can look at getting in to the Fedora repos directly.
Or if there are some non-free sub components, they can get in the RPM Fusion repos.

It sounds like it does all the hard work into building your packages and repo.

I remember needed to used copr to install restic. Now you can install it directly from Fedora repo.

Is it for Extra-Bleeding-Edge apps (not yet / not likely to ever be in the Fedora Repos)??
The COPR Project page also mentions:

"NOTE: Copr is not yet officially supported by Fedora Infrastructure."

I get the feeling focus will move towards distro independent package installation solutions. Until then I think I'll stick with DNF, RPM Fusion and maybe selective Flatpak use.

black3dynamite

@warren-stanley said in Fedora Love:

@black3dynamite said in Fedora Love:

@JaredBusch said in Fedora Love:

@Emad-R said in Fedora Love:

@warren-stanley said in Fedora Love:

I'm tentatively moving into my replacement daily driver - a Fedora Cinnamon Spin flavoured PC. ScreenConnect was problematic until I found @JaredBusch 's post "How to run JNLP files on Fedora Cinnamon with Firefox"

Any love for Flatpak or are most sticking with the native DNF + repos?

I tried them but ended using snaps, wanted to install slack and had some issues under LXqt only snap behaved well.

Also this COPR addons are interesting:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/

I do not understand COPR. Most people that can build anrpm will just do so and host it. I mean I don't browse the repo list looking for software to install. I hear about it here or elsewhere and then go to the vendor website and follow their install guide.

If said vendor is going to make a rpm, they can just host it themselves and tell people to dnf install https://some.url

Then they can look at getting in to the Fedora repos directly.
Or if there are some non-free sub components, they can get in the RPM Fusion repos.

It sounds like it does all the hard work into building your packages and repo.

I remember needed to used copr to install restic. Now you can install it directly from Fedora repo.

Is it for Extra-Bleeding-Edge apps (not yet / not likely to ever be in the Fedora Repos)??
The COPR Project page also mentions:

"NOTE: Copr is not yet officially supported by Fedora Infrastructure."

I get the feeling focus will move towards distro independent package installation solutions. Until then I think I'll stick with DNF, RPM Fusion and maybe selective Flatpak use.

I’ve only used one app from there because it wasn’t available in Fedora repo at that time. Just like I would with RPM Fusion repo.

With Fedora Workstation there is an option to enable certain 3rd party repo like Chrome, PyCharm (copr repo) and steam.
https://fedoramagazine.org/third-party-repositories-fedora/

Also Flatpak is enable by default too.

But it’s up to you if you want enable those repo, use a different repo or add flathub so you can install Flatpak apps.

black3dynamite

Damn, that was a challenge typing that on a phone.

warren.stanley

@black3dynamite said in Fedora Love:

Damn, that was a challenge typing that on a phone.

Haha! You did well

I'd seen the article on the inclusion of select 3rd party repos with Workstation, this piqued my interest on revisiting Fedora. ScreenConnect was my drama though, hence Cinnamon. I've been doing digging on what these Repo changes actually are and how to enact on Cinnamon (given no Gnome and if that mattered) .

I've just been looking at a posting on the Fedora Forums talking about it . Seems that there's differences from what you get enabling through Workstation (and Gnome Software) and using sudo dnf install fedora-workstation-repositories on other Spins.

black3dynamite

@warren-stanley said in Fedora Love:

@black3dynamite said in Fedora Love:

Damn, that was a challenge typing that on a phone.

Haha! You did well

I'd seen the article on the inclusion of select 3rd party repos with Workstation, this piqued my interest on revisiting Fedora. ScreenConnect was my drama though, hence Cinnamon. I've been doing digging on what these Repo changes actually are and how to enact on Cinnamon (given no Gnome and if that mattered) .

I've just been looking at a posting on the Fedora Forums talking about it . Seems that there's differences from what you get enabling through Workstation (and Gnome Software) and using sudo dnf install fedora-workstation-repositories on other Spins.

ScreenConnect doesn’t work well or at all on Fedora workstation because of Wayland, which is the default display server protocol. You have to switch to xorg or just disable Wayland instead. Cinnamon doesn’t only use x11/xorg.