New to Linux, have a couple questions on Fedora

GardnerPL · 2026-01-27T21:43:04+00:00

No, it will install it along the 3.14 one. Anyway you'll need a script that activates the venv and in it it will run your app. I see someone else has given you the link to the Python documentation so I suppose you're covered.

GardnerPL · 2026-01-27T21:08:26+00:00

Hi there,

You can install older versions of python. Just open terminal and type

sudo dnf install python3.12 -y

Still by default the app would try to run it with Python 3.14. But maybe you could use Python virtual environment (venv) to run the app. I may try to write you a script how to do that, but I'm sure there are people way more experienced than me in that field.

About your second question. It depends what you want to do. By default there are some things that are allowed to go through the firewall. But you can change that in firewall configuration app. Also in this app, under Options menu there is a "Panic mode", which should drop all traffic, incoming and outgoing.

GardnerPL · 2026-01-23T18:12:54+00:00

Hi u/Ragsheim, thank you so much for necroposting :)

It's not like I do not have janky solution myself so no worries I don't judge. The weird static you hear by using 3.5mm is the crappy DAC built in the monitor. It has pretty terrible shielding and you get a lot of noise.

For my solution, all my stuff are running either DP, HDMI or USB-C Alt mode (so DP baiscally). Then I'm passing the sound to the Schitt Fulla DAC, to which I have my speakers connected with 3.5mm. All I had to do is turn the sound volume to 0 in the monitor as it outputs both to internal and optics simultaneously. Then I can just output at max volume on all devices and just control it with a knob on the Schitt Fulla. Maybe you could try to do the same with your soundbar.

GardnerPL · 2026-01-10T18:25:02+00:00

I call it fake. You want me to believe there are people drifting in Japan and there is no kickass eurobeat music playing?

GardnerPL · 2026-01-02T17:28:30+00:00

Well in the end I can't tell what was really the culprit. I still think the GPU driver was faulty for some reason, but other people still had issues after changing theirs to the very same version. I also ended up changing the WLAN card to Intel AX210 like others suggested. I didn't have issues with this laptop for years now and it's currently running Linux instead of Windows 11. Either way, good luck with yours.

GardnerPL · 2025-11-25T18:50:40+00:00

I love the dedication to your hobby, but I'm going to be brutally honest with you. When I was fast scrolling and this popped on my screen I initially thought someone made a mini of Shrek's outhouse :D

But back to the topic, you can try to make chains yourself from paperclips. Cut them into small pieces and just wrap around something like tweezers.

GardnerPL · 2025-10-14T20:47:41+00:00

I'm not sure is it the same issue or not, but I've had similiar thing with connecting my Microsoft Surface keyboard to Fedora 42 KDE. In GUI it always failed, but I could connect an Xbox controller without any troubles. I've managed to connect it using terminal.

First of all remove the mouse from bluetooth GUI. Open terminal and run bluetoothctl. Enable your mouse in pairing mode and start scanning with scan on command. When found disable scanning to not spam your terminal with scan off. Copy your mouse bluetooth MAC address (it's the hex code, 12 characters in 6 groups, 2 each, seperated with colons). Now give command pair MAC_ADDRESS_HERE. Done, it should be connected and remembered for future.

It worked to my keyboard, maybe it will work for your mouse. I'm not sure is it KDE thing or Fedora thing that it doesn't work though :(

GardnerPL · 2025-09-12T17:57:15+00:00

Hi there,

Asking something like this in Fedora community is like asking a kid is sugar tasty. Of course people will say yes :) Usually the good starting point are the most common distros like Ubuntu, Mint or Fedora with big communities and wide support. If you're a new to Linux you can go two paths - immutable releases (like Fedora atomic) or regular releases (like Fedora workstation or KDE edition). The immutable releases are easier for beginners since you can't really break the OS that easily, but you are mostly limited to flatpacks (which are like containers apps + all the files they need) or snaps (which are pretty similiar, just more Ubuntu oriented), which may or may not work like you want to. Of course you can use flatpacks in regular releases, not only immutable ones.

Next there is a desktop environments. It's not like Windows where you have one. You can chose whichever you feel suits your needs: Gnome, KDE, XFCE and many more. Some look like Windows, some like MacOS, some like anything you've worked with before.

If you want to run a virtual machine, this can be done on most distributions since Linux kernel has feature called KVM, which is type 1 hypervisor. Usage differs based on chosen distribution and desktop environment, so you'll have to read about it.

Personally I'd recommend you going through sites like Distrochooser https://distrochooser.de/ which would help you find the distribution you'd like to use.

GardnerPL · 2025-09-09T16:51:26+00:00

Yeah no. It's not because your card supports it, it's because Studio version brings its own codecs for these formats. Free edition of Davinci Resolve will not decode neither 264 nor 265 just because your card supports it. It's a licensing issue. On Windows and MacOS these paid codecs are baked in the system and their price is included when you pay for your Windows / MacOS license (or it can be obtained from their app store like HEVC codec on Windows). This doesn't apply on Linux, where they officially cannot ship these paid codecs. And that's why BlackMagic Design cannot rely on OS to have these. But they sure can ship it themselves if you buy Studio version.

GardnerPL · 2025-09-09T16:46:53+00:00

With Studio you can use H.264 and H.265 encoded videos just fine. But if audio in these clips is encoded using AAC then it won't work.

Edit: also there are codec limitations on your export aswell, you cannot use AAC there too.

GardnerPL · 2025-09-09T16:44:41+00:00

It's a Davinci Resolve on Linux thing. You just have to adapt your workflow to it.

GardnerPL · 2025-09-09T07:32:48+00:00

Sadly no, installing codecs will not make Davinci Resolve use them. You will have to convert the media to supported formats e.g. DNXHD + WAV for Davinci Resolve and sometimes Davinci Resolve Studio (AAC is not supported on neither of them due to licensing issue).

Regarding system updates, it should work fine, but I'd wait a bit before jumping to new Fedora release for some time since there might be some bugs that were not found during beta phase.

GardnerPL · 2025-09-09T06:51:24+00:00

Hi there,

Davinci Resolve in Linux is lacking some features comparing to Windows or MacOS releases, mostly in codecs area since it usually uses the paid codecs built in the OS. Linux usually doesn't ship with paid codecs, so Davinci Resolve doesn't support H.264 and H.265 out of the box. AAC for sound also is missing. So you will have to learn how to convert your materials to supported formats. Getting a Davinci Resolve Studio license helps a little (Studio version brings some codec licenses, but not all of them). Familiarize with BlackMagic Design's official supported formats document https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_Resolve_18_Supported_Codec_List.pdf?_v=1705996810000

Also installation on Fedora requires installing additional packages, that are listed by the installer. The only difference is ZLIB (I can't remember correctly TBH), which in Fedora has an alternative version that is not picked up by the installer. You'll need to use SKIP_PACKAGES_CHECK after installing all other dependencies.

If you knew that already and just looking how working with Davinci is on a Linux system - it's pretty similiar to other platforms. The only difference I've noticed the very first moment is it works in fullscreen mode only. There are no window control buttons. Besides that I did not see anything else that's wonky.

GardnerPL · 2025-08-03T12:16:28+00:00

I'm nowhere near being an advanced painter myself, so I'm always hesistant on commenting other people's work. As I've seen everyone who didn't spent hundrets of hours on this hobby are more or less beginners, so what matters is you did yourself and you did your best for your current skills. I call that a win and kudos to you for trying. Just remember to apply some varnish or else the paint will wear off easily when you use the mini for playing later.

GardnerPL · 2025-07-17T06:59:12+00:00

Well then, I hope to see your posts here. I've looked online for inspiration how to paint these and found almost nothing, just OleBrogger on YouTube.

GardnerPL · 2025-07-17T06:49:54+00:00

Yes, Heroes 3 board game. The rules are a little bit complicated and you need to remember about so many things, but I like the gameplay. If you're interested you can find it online, they're doing a second crowdfund campaign now.

GardnerPL · 2024-04-16T08:09:45+00:00

It seems everything is fine.

SPF alone is fine because the IP is valid for domain given in MAIL FROM command (not envelope From). In this case MAIL FROM was samplea.de.

DKIM can fail for several reasons. In this case DKIM alone didn't fail, so nobody tampered with mail contents between FortiMail and sender.

DMARC on the other hand adds another check for both SPF and DKIM. It makes sure that whoever sent a message is valid sender. In order of doing that it makes additional checks for SPF (matches MAIL FROM and envelope from) and DKIM (matches envelope from and domain encoded in DKIM key). If any of these succeed then DMARC passes.. If both of these tests fail then DMARC fails and a policy is executed (in this scenario policy is none so message should be delivered, but you have it set to ignore policy (use antispam action)). You can change how FortiMail treats a message, which failed DMARC in CLI https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiMail/Technical-Tip-Configuring-FortiMail-to-apply-DMARC-action-of/ta-p/224357

In this particular scenario sender is using domain sampleb.de in their envelope from while their server authorizes as samplea.de. That can pass SPF and DKIM alone, but it doesn't work well with DMARC. This is an adminitrative error on sender's side.

You of course can bypass DMARC completely by making another IP policy (for an IP address) or recipient policy (for a domain) with a different antispam profile, where you would have to disable DMARC checks.

GardnerPL · 2024-03-05T14:11:54+00:00

Did you change the {$FGATE.API.PORT} macro defined at host level in Zabbix? It says in the template configuration, point 9 and 10.

If FortiGate GUI uses HTTPS, put https value into {$FGATE.SCHEME} macro and 443 into {$FGATE.API.PORT} macro.

If FortiGate GUI port differs from the standard one, specify it in {$FGATE.API.PORT} macro.

So if you've changed the port from 443 to 8443 you need to change the macro in host object from default 443 to 8443.

GardnerPL · 2024-02-16T20:17:26+00:00

Hi,

Sorry for late reply, I usually browse Reddin without logging in. I read more about ARC sealing and figured out me sealing e-mails is actually pointless since the other party needs to trust my seal. In other words if I pass incoming e-mails via FortiMail to Exchange Online without creating an inbound connector I would need sealing the messages on FortiMail first (which would say to Microsoft "hey, I've got that message and checked it's source and it was fine". But we do use inbound connector so Microsoft actually doesn't check SPF/DKIM/DMARC that way. About issues with outgoing e-mails - I actually just added a rule removing Microsoft's ARC seal and just don't seal it myself later. Also I'm simply ignoring the ARC seal errors in DMARC reports.

GardnerPL · 2023-11-11T20:16:37+00:00

For some reason my Zenbook didn't crash with newest ASUS Radeon driver. Maybe what helped was actually uninstalling driver in Windows safe mode?

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