cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28643300

What’s new?

We’ve promoted our KDE Plasma Desktop offering to “Edition” status. The Fedora KDE team has been hard at work making sure bugs get fixed and everything is polished just so. We’re confident that this can stand along our other amazing flagship offerings.

I know the naming is a bit confusing, with GNOME-powered “Workstation” using a generic label while KDE Plasma Desktop has the tech right in the name. We’ll get that figured out eventually. If you don’t know where to start, don’t panic. Pick one and see how it goes. They’re both excellent desktop environments with great upstream communities, and the same Fedora system underneath it all.

We also have a new alternative desktop choice: COSMIC. This is a modern, written-all-in-Rust desktop environment from our friends over at System 76.

Perhaps most excitingly, we have a new installation interface! The previous UI was design

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The final ISOs are here: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/42_RC-1.1/

I did some searching and many users recommend Rofi but looking at man rofi-script it seems to just be a list picker. You pick something from the a list and only one thing runs. On Alfred and Raycast you can have interactive extensions which are essentially keyboard navigable UIs.

• One example looking at the Alfred workflow gallery is Reddit Browser, where you select a subreddit from a list and then it shows of lists of posts, you can press cmd enter to go back & select another subreddit.
• Another one lets you ask questions for chatgpt and shows answers right in the launcher (I'm not necessarily looking for AI extensions).
• This Raycast extension lets you search and create Notion pages.

Fedora 40 running on Dell laptop with KDE spin has done it twice on separate occasions: after rebooting for updates it just hangs after applying them. Is this something known? I've looked on google but could find only similar queries in other places with no answers or "just hard reset it" answers. I've been running Fedora for over a decade now and haven't seen such behaviour until recent releases. Some config drift? something else?

I'm running Fedora 41 KDE and had what appeared to be an issue with the system not loading to desktop from the GUI login screen. I am getting a black screen with just the cursor and nothing else. I can get a terminal window going on TTY3-6 to reboot and doing so would load into the desktop pretty much instantly.

Turns out that there's actually a process causing total boot time from power on to exceed 6 minutes. Boot log is viewable here https://paste.centos.org/view/raw/8846c1ec

Using systemd-analyze blame I can see that smartd.service is causing 3 minutes of that boot time. From a quick search it seems like it might be doing a full SMART test of my 3 SSDs on the first boot of the day.

Does anyone know how to disable this at boot? There doesn't appear to be a conf file in /etc/ and smartmontools isn't installed.

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For instance I want to install neovim-0.11.0-1.fc42 which is currently labeled testing > stable on the top right.

It seems like its a matter of days until the nvim 0.11.0 Fedora package is ready, but I would like to know in case I want to want to install other packages, especially if it takes over a week for new versions of nvim.

Hello all, can anyone help me figure out what permissions/ownership settings and/or configuration changes I need to make to fix logrotate.service on my Fedora 41 host?

Here is what journalctl reports: https://pastebin.com/Hp31DJEX

It seems like the permission for /var/log/samba/ and /var/log/sshd/ might be messed up? I am struggling to find what the right ownership/permissions for these directories and files should be.

Additionally, when I look in /var/log/ I see many different log files for the same services:

https://pastebin.com/WXivZmST

I've been trying for days and have been impossible.

All I get is not enough permission to access share from client

`testparm

Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf

Loaded services file OK.

Weak crypto is allowed by GnuTLS (e.g. NTLM as a compatibility fallback)

Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE

Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions

Global parameters

[global]

printcap name = cups

security = USER

usershare allow guests = Yes

usershare max shares = 100

workgroup = SAMBA

idmap config * : backend = tdb

cups options = raw

[homes]

browseable = No

comment = Home Directories

inherit acls = Yes

read only = No

valid users = %S %D%w%S

[printers]

browseable = No

comment = All Printers

create mask = 0600

path = /var/tmp

printable = Yes

[print$]

comment = Printer Drivers

create mask = 0664

directory mask = 0775

force group = @printadmin

path = /var/lib/samba/drivers

write list = @printadmin root

[Drive]

guest ok = Yes

path = /var/home/htpc/Dr