why? because it’s not triggering an obscure anti cheat on a game I’ve been playing when using wine (performance is still the same tho), everything else is just work no missing dependencies and it’s doesn’t get in my way like other distros (I tried Arch, Opensuse, Ubuntu, Debian), just to clarify I’m a complete noob when it come to Linux so maybe if I know better I probably make everything works just like Fedora
I can’t install fedora because they require you to have a mouse connected by cable to your computer to install.
It’s absurd. I only have a Bluetooth mouse and you can’t get to the Bluetooth connect screen. So Mint it was.
I even saw someone complaining about this on the fedora forum and the response was totally “Do you not have mice?” energy.
What stopped the install process working without a mouse?
Surely they’d have a keyboard navigation method.
They do… For the first screen of the welcome page only. When it gets to connect WiFi the keyboard nav is broken. Tabbing doesn’t work.
Beyond that if you hit alt F4 to close the welcome page you get to your desktop, but Fedora doesn’t come with any predefined hotkeys (or at least none of them worked on Fedora 39, if there were any - it might have been part of the welcome screen). So I couldn’t open up a terminal or anything to actually get to useful controls.
After an hour of fighting with this and seeing useless forum posts I scrapped it and installed Mint, where they actually bothered to let you open up Bluetooth connection management with only a keyboard.
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I can’t imagine not having a plethora of mice and keyboards in PS/2, USB, wireless, and BT varieties. Like an unnecessary amount.
I’ve literally had no corded mice and keyboards since like 2010s.
Corded maybe. But most of wireless mouses even today come with little usb dongle and that should work. Only the bluetooth one dosent apparently. Which makes sense. I mean why would it work out of the box with your computer.
You think people have multiple PS/2 mice in 2024?
I didn’t say that. I was speaking for myself.
…but yes
many people don’t even own a usb mouse.
I consider myself a huge nerd but I would be surprised if I even still have a ps/2 mouse somewhere.
Maybe I’m just old, then. I have every type of tech I would possibly need to troubleshoot any machine I could imagine… thinking about throwing away my parallel cables, I’m like “what if an HP Laserjet Series II needs help?!”
Do we share a closet?
Some of us don’t throw out old stuff just cause it is old, lol, my closet is angry with me cries in 486
Sure, but even folks who hoard stuff might be old enough to have never had one. Even at 32 I’ve never had one before. My dad might have one somewhere though.
You have a corded USB c mouse?
I do
Nah, just regular type.
USB-C keyboard, though!
Yeah my mainboard is USB c only. I had an old USB A mouse but that doesn’t help.
Corded USB-C nice are rare! There’s some cordless though.
Never heard of a mainboard with only USB-C!
Look up the framework laptop - the mainboard is USB c only with modular adapters for other options
Neat!
Fedora+KDE is the perfect match
Kde and fedora is definitely a good choice.
Indeed. The only annoying thing is the automatic updates not working.
Wait, what?
yeah it’s a known issue: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447245
I have a Nvidia gpu and I did run into issues on Fedora with drivers and cutscenes, switching from Gnome to KDE and wayland to X11 fixed some problems, but I fidn’t manage to get it to work properly and have given up in a few weeks.
However, I switched to Nobara which is based on Fedora and handles the gaming related configuration for you, and so far O’ve had a great experience without any issues for half a year already, so if gaming is what you’re primarily after, I’d recommend going with Nobara.
For Nobara, which would you say it’s the best (DE + X11/Wayland) setup for an Nvidia GPU?
I preffer KDE and use x11. Wayland is getting better with nvidia, but I still had some bugs with taskbar freezing often when I first tried it, so I just switched to X11. I haven’t tested it recently though, so it may be OK now.
I think Bazzite or Nobara is easier for casual gamers that just want things to work
Yeah DNF rocks and the new builds always have the new fun stuff right away.
Bazzite has been amazing for me!
Which Steam package did you install? I remember tried the rpm package from the software store and encountered problems.
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