[solved] installing plasma

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made on behalf of @empty cargo

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Greetings

@empty cargo

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I already did that

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huh

did i do somrthing already

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Bud didn’t respond

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Did you reboot

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yes,i logged in my profile

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Where are you now

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the login thing

like the os itself

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So are you just in a TTY?

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if tty is a black cmd screen with a login and password then i guess

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Login

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did

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Suprised you didn’t just configure it in the installer

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so i now just su-

and pacman -S plasma-dekstop

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sudo pacman -S plasma kde-applications

And your login was a TTY so you need a display manager

sudo pacman -S sddm

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theres 11 providers

which

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Default is fine

Press enter

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okay

error occured,no packagez were updated

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Screenshot or take a photo

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was i supposed to connect to wifi

failed retrieving file

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Yeah so you didn’t configure networking

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goddang it

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iwctl

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command not found

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Brother

why did you skip through arch install

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so i

just type archinstall.now

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No

Do you have Ethernet by chance

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yes,im texting yall rn

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Weird

Type iplink

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it gives some

random letters

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Take a picture

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okay

i think it looks pretty bad to be honest

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I feel like this is going to be unproductive as hell

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i feel like i should just go back to win11 and stfu

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Would you want an easier distro

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any would do for me

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I have two suggestions

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1. Deleting your current config and reinstalling BUT properly setting it up

2. Switching to fedora

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which option is the best

and the fastest

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Both take time

Since you have no clue what you are doing fedora would probably better the better move

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okat

okay

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If you want to throw yourself to the wolves you can retry again

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ill try fedora

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Hop back into windows and delete your arch partitions

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like the whole linux os

and the usb too

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Yup

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ok

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You’re just gonna flash fedora onto it

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is fedora like

comes pre installed

like for braindeads

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You are thrown into a live environment and you have a nice installer

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oj

oh thats sounds cool

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Hop back into windows and lmk when you finished deleting the arch partitions

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@woeful ermine why are we moving away from arch?

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done,no traces of my failure

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Has made it clear that he likes GUI’s and doesn’t want to actually configure the system

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yeah i js wanna see a pretty gui

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User wants a working system

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@upbeat ember this

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this

Nothing wrong with it, but probably not best

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Search up fedora media writer

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pop-os is also good

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github?

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Yeah

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@woeful ermine hold on

ventoy

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It’s the same path

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i use rufus

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You wanna grab the ISO instead?

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idk

i js wanna do anything,also veno and ruf is the same

but vento got an gui

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https://fedoraproject.org/kde/download/

if you’ve used Rufus then this should be familiar

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@empty cargo https://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-40.torrent

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One click button

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torrent is faster

https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/releases/download/v1.1.05/ventoy-1.1.05-windows.zip

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Torrent is fine too but dunno if user has an app to do so

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This is just more work

I use it myself yes, but you are making this harder

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can i js use fedorwproject.org

torrent kinda sounds

weird

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if you want

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It’s basically people hosting the ISO themselves

P2P network of people that share it

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As I said

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torrent is like that green app with pirated games

??

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this?

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yeah

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Decentralized downloading is what torrenting is by definition

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hold on, torrenting is not piracy

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okay

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Piracy and torrenting are different

What he’s talking about is JUST the act of downloading via other peers

which in this case is totally legit and legal

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Did you finish installing the ISO

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almost

ms edge is slow

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firefox > edge

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my windows is new

i reinstalled it

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Both are good

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you want to dualboot with fedora?

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yes

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how much space are you going to give fedora?

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I picked an easy distro that he can setup and use the ‘puter

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He already deleted his arch partitions

He shrunk his drive by 50 gigs

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i have 185 gb free space

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Change as needed

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to 50

?

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Up to you

Is the ISO done

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it says 5 mins

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Ait just reply when it’s done

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ok

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And

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done just now

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now i open fedora media writer

?

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No

We only need the fedora kde iso

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okay

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Since you said you have Rufus open it

Select your USB drive, then select the KDE iso

Flash it, then once you’re done boot the USB

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mbr or gpt

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Leave as default

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ok

got a warning that it uses grub 2.12-nonstandard-gdie but the iso file only has grub 2.12

is it alright

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Screenshot or photo?

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its in russian

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So?

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okay,1 sec

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Doesn’t mean I can’t read it

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Click no

It’ll just use the default

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ok

startee

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it will take some time btw

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@empty cargo попробуйте спросить в irc #archlinux-ua

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Eh?

I mean we’re almost done

🗿 my Russian sucks but if needed

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its my screenshot

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????????

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😭

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Dude I can help him in Russian if it becomes too difficult to follow

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@empty cargo for more support in russian

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also gravatos is russian

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i like to use english as my main language because its easier and has more people that can actually help instead of calling me a newgen

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newgen?

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i asked some people from russia

they js said newgen

and as i said english is easier

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TLDR: noob

Someone who has recently started or joined

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its done

now i just boot?

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into the iso, yes

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okqy

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@empty cargo what step are you on?

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its installing onto my haed

drive

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@empty cargo photo please

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its alright

im in fedora

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Did you already partition it

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yes

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Good

All set then so far

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so after that i just install wine

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Huh

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to run exe apps

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Do you need wine?

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did you pick the partition for fedora?

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yes

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what exe apps?

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visual studio code,and discord

wait i think discord has a linux version

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those are in fedora, no need for those

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oh

okay

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You don’t need wine

You can use flatpaks

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ok

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@empty cargo when you reboot after your done, you will be greeted with a welcome screen, when it asks about third party user repositories, click the checkmark

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okay

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This was the right choice

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ok its done

thanks guys

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@empty cargo hold on

sudo dnf install flameshot

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??

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bind flameshot to printscreen

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in konsole

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sudo dnf install fastfetch

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yes

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i dont have prtsc

i use 60%

wait nvm

its fn+u

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What

What are you doing

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its a screenshot/record thing

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It includes spectacle by default

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idk why do i need it

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Why the hell do you need flameshot

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i dont know

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Did you check off that thing?

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If it was me just uninstall flameshot

For fedora it’s completely not needed OOB

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meh it will stay

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@upbeat ember have you used fedora

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No point

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@empty cargo sudo dnf install fastfetch and screenshot that

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brother

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its installed

opens when i prtsc

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@empty cargo did you enable third party repositories?

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yes

why does it matter thi

tho

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good, first thing you should do is update your system

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how

and why

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it allows you to get apps

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oh

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point release distro so much like arch, it has updates that come out as time goes on

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proprietary software and/or software not maintained by fedora themselves

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sudo dnf update

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okay

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sudo dnf upgrade should also work but it has been mostly combined

techincally update has been depreciated but they now do the exact same thing (as of recent releases of fedora)

after that, reboot

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why does my cursor get bigger if i move my mouse fast

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feature of KDE

you can disable it if you want

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so now i mainly use konsole to install apps

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discover app

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the terminal, yes

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brother

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what's wrong with sudo dnf install package

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I dont think thats what the user wants

if you think its wrong thats cool

Fedora already includes shit out of the box so that the user doesnt need to run to the terminal

if they wanna do that, sure

at least from what I understand @empty cargo doesnt really use linux or have experience with it

easier to just get them setup with flatpaks and have them install apps an easy way

the point of switching over wasn't to just have them vomit shit in a terminal

it was to make the end user experience easier

I started using this shit, and it is a lot easier to get used to then copy pasting shit into a terminal

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i like ts thing

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faster than win

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already done by default

requires zero effort from the end user

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did you dnf install kitty or use the flatpak?

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im on arch

but kitty I have on my laptop using dnf

konsole is great so I dont really see a reason to swap over

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enjoy

if you dont like how it looks, play around with the editor to get it how you want it to look

system settings app functions a lot like the windows app (in how you configure things) so if you dont like something, see if you can change it there

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@empty cargo can I mark this a solved?

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@empty cargo ig last note for final prep, if you dont wanna run sudo dnf upgrade then just click "check for updates" in discover

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theres much theme apps on the internet and discover

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sure

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update tool works the exact same

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okay

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its a tad slower than just running the command but functions great

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[solved] installing plasma

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yeah its great

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thanks guys

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@woeful ermine @empty cargo -> #tech-general

discord.gg/fedora

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im already in the damn server

if they want to join, sure

but its not strictly needed

plenty of fedora users are active in this community

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that was not for you

the above was to continue this discussion in #tech-general

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yeehaw

anyway my work is done, @empty cargo feel free to ping if you ever need help