Frequently a harmless looking Fedora update breaks vital functionality. It’s part of the “fun” working with oh so stable and reliable Linux Desktop distributions… or is it? Regardless, we may from time to time have to check which exact package in the previous update broke some functionality, and of course people like me have no … Read more
As much as I enjoy KDE Plasma, it can be a cringeworthy buggy mess of trash sometimes. Not most of the time, but certainly when it doesn’t work. Recently its plasmashell component started crashing on startup in an endless loop, rendering my system’s usability useless. There was nothing I could do from the GUI to … Read more
I have Fedora and a couple of other RPM based distros running on so many systems, I thought I’ll write up the ones I like to have in place and how to get them (just becasue there’s always something I’m missing). Here’s that list for my future self and you if you like. Live ISO … Read more
I have a JBOD setup on my Linux workstation that I wanted to add a disk to. Rather than do this from the desktop or the command line, I thought I’d try cockpit – and it worked like a charm. All I had to do was to add an unformatted drive with no existing partitions, … Read more
I had a weird thing happen today: all folder icons had changed themselves, after I tried to apply a different icon to a single folder only using Dolphin in KDE. Probably a bug that’s long been fixed. The trouble was I had no idea how to alleviate this problem, so I did some digging and … Read more
After updating Fedora from 41 to 42, I’ve noticed that the Steam version from the Fedora repo no longer wanted to start. I could launch the Flatpak version, but it doesn’t have native Proton support so wouldn’t launch my games. Thankfully there’s an easy fix to make Fedora Steam work again with this simple fix: … Read more
I’ve had this on numerous occasions: I’m asking Fedora to shut down, and it either takes a while for it to obey my command, or it outright refuses. Most UIs aren’t exactly forthcoming about the reasons, by the command line interface has today told me that there’s a way to find out what might be … Read more
Here’s another personal favourite topic my brain likes to forget: how to create and format disk partitions from the Command Line in Linux. No matter how many times I do it, I always forget the details when I don’t have a GUI to hand. For the record, both KDE and GNOME as well as the … Read more
