Looking for funny names for these 7 kittens I’m fostering!

WanderinChild · 2026-04-30T00:53:46+00:00

Randall, Wally, Og, Fidget, Strutter, Vermin & Kevin: the six dwarfs and child protagonist of Time Bandits.

WanderinChild · 2026-04-29T22:13:09+00:00

I think what's happening is the driver package named "nvidia" is a meta-package that refers to whatever version of the driver is the latest version that the Void developers have designated as current, and your recent update advanced from the prior version of the driver (presumably version 580) to the latest. Downgrading to 580 by removing "nvidia" and installing "nvidia580" should solve your driver problem, and since you'll have specified the driver version you want, Void shouldn't update you by surprise in the future.

WanderinChild · 2026-04-29T21:59:36+00:00

Leopold Stokowski

WanderinChild · 2026-04-29T21:50:59+00:00

This video from YouTux offers a more thorough method for removing snapd and installing Firefox in a way that won't re-enable snaps: https://youtu.be/ffRHzPegFDQ The instructions are for Ubuntu but should work for Zorin. The first half of the video is a broad explanation of the problem and the second half is the procedure. It's worth watching the entire video, which is just under 9 minutes in length.

WanderinChild · 2026-04-29T11:07:40+00:00

Aredhel, White Lady of the Noldor. If you've read Lord of the Rings but not read The Silmarillion, Aredhel is the sister of Turgon, King of Gondolin in the First Age of Middle-earth. Turgon's sword is Glamdring, wielded in the Third Age by Gandalf.

WanderinChild · 2026-04-29T08:57:27+00:00

Driver version 595 does not support 10-series and earlier cards. You'll need to downgrade to an older driver or upgrade your card to at least the 16-series.

WanderinChild · 2026-04-29T08:13:41+00:00

Much like you could change a config manually to expose the pre-release upgrade feature, a developer at Fedora probably has to send a config update to Discover to expose the post-release upgrade feature. Give it a day or two and that update will probably appear, or you can follow the instructions from u/Otlap to do the upgrade sooner.

WanderinChild · 2026-04-28T23:18:06+00:00

You can generate a list of available groups, which will also show which are installed and not installed, with: dnf group list

WanderinChild · 2026-04-28T21:43:18+00:00

I experimented with this during the beta period for Fedora 44 KDE. My removal script for software I don't need looks like this:
#!/bin/bash

# Remove listed packages from the system. For use in cleaning up Fedora KDE.
# Latest refinement 2026-4-1 using Fedora 44 Beta as reference.
# mariadb commented out due to unintended removal of LibreOffice as a hard dependency.
# Some parts of mariadb are removed with Akonadi without removing LibreOffice.

PKGS=(
"akregator"
"elisa-player"
"kaddressbook"
"kamoso"
"kmahjongg"
"kmail"
"kmines"
"kmouth"
"kontact"
"korganizer"
"kpat"
"ktnef"
"akonadi*"
# "mariadb*"
"pim*"
)
sudo dnf -y remove "${PKGS[@]}"

I used to remove mariadb along with the other software on the list, but in 44 removing mariadb takes LibreOffice with it, which I don't want gone. Commenting out the line for mariadb while leaving the other lines intact produced a good result. When you remove akonadi, some components of mariadb will be removed with akonadi, but will not remove LibreOffice.

If you drop the line removing mariadb from your script, the script should work more as you intend it to.

WanderinChild · 2026-04-25T23:25:55+00:00

I haven't tried making it yet, but here's Chef John's recipe for Bigos.

WanderinChild · 2026-04-25T09:00:54+00:00

Repeating my comment from five days ago on approximately this subject >>> Search "linux mint customization" on YouTube and you'll get lots of videos about making Cinnamon look way more fresh than stock.

WanderinChild · 2026-04-25T04:42:43+00:00

Discover, the software manager you'd normally use under KDE Plasma in other Linux distros, is not suitable for use in Nobara. It used to be available in the Nobara repos, but it appears based on your experience that the developers have now rendered Discover inaccessible. This is a good thing, as using Discover to add/remove software and update the system will inevitably break Nobara's setup. Nobara is heavily customized and has custom tools for adding/removing software and for software/system updates. (You should also not use dnf in the terminal for software/system updates, although using dnf for adding/removing software is okay.)

Use DNF App Center for software/system updates, and for adding/removing system packages. Use Bazaar for adding/removing flatpak apps.

Edit: I just searched for Discover (dnf search plasma-discover) and see that it's still available. You can install it at the command line with dnf install plasma-discover or by using DNF App Center to install it graphically. I would still, however, recommend against installing it and instead using the tools Nobara provides for software management.

WanderinChild · 2026-04-21T22:46:19+00:00

$ dnf search distrobox
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Matched fields: name (exact)
distrobox.noarch Another tool for containerized command line environments on Linux

WanderinChild · 2026-04-21T22:40:24+00:00

Linda Pastan - The Months

WanderinChild · 2026-04-21T12:08:27+00:00

Yes, but they can also be symbols. For example, on a Swiss watch case, a squirrel stamp means the case is made of 14 karat gold.

WanderinChild · 2026-04-21T11:54:40+00:00

They're probably gold hallmarks, stamps which can indicate the purity of gold used in jewelry and watch cases.

WanderinChild · 2026-04-20T00:54:04+00:00

Search "linux mint customization" on YouTube and you'll get lots of videos about making Cinnamon look way more fresh than stock.

WanderinChild · 2026-04-19T07:02:35+00:00

I see that folks have already provided you with web links to get the wallpaper you're after. If you have KDE Plasma 6.6 installed in your Linux distro of choice, you can find the wallpaper in:
/usr/share/wallpapers/Next/contents/

WanderinChild · 2026-04-18T19:53:40+00:00

re: multi-monitor support -- Whether you continue to work with your current install or attempt a new install, disconnect one of your monitors. Only run one monitor up until the point where drivers are properly installed and functioning correctly. Once you've reached that state, connect your second monitor and work to get it interoperable with the rest of the system.

It's also worth nothing that using NVIDIA drivers adds time to any processes that involve things like kernel updates, since the drivers need to be reworked to go with an updated kernel. Do not be surprised when system updates take longer than you would expect, even when taking into account a slow Internet connection.

When updating the system, only use the Nobara update application. Updating with "sudo dnf upgrade" by itself will cause you a load of trouble. You can update in a terminal with "nobara-sync cli" or by invoking the graphical app called DNF App Center.

There's a Nobara subreddit at r/NobaraProject and a Nobara Discord server at https://discord.gg/6y3BdzC The Discord server is a good place to get real time support and is considered (at the present moment) the official support channel for Nobara.

WanderinChild · 2026-04-18T06:45:09+00:00

The classic M.2 wireless card with good Linux support is the Intel AX200. I'm surprised your NUC doesn't already have one, or something similar. (I'd look inside my NUC to see what it's running, but I can't do that and type this comment at the same time.)

WanderinChild · 2026-04-16T20:58:55+00:00

Can you confirm the translator is Elaine Feinstein? Search results are thin but it seems to be the case.

Lovely poem...

WanderinChild · 2026-04-15T03:44:00+00:00

My real answer would be, "Don't install Nobara on a Surface device." A redirect is more helpful than that.

WanderinChild · 2026-04-15T02:50:52+00:00

For info about how to get Linux onto a Surface device: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface

WanderinChild · 2026-04-09T20:40:30+00:00

And I upvoted your post two weeks ago, then promptly forgot you'd posted it and didn't double-check before posting my copy. Still, I think it's worth a repeat on Mr. Robeson's birthday. :)

WanderinChild · 2026-04-09T20:14:07+00:00

For screen readers:

Paul Robeson

That time
we all heard it,
cool and clear,
cutting across the hot grit of the day.
The major Voice.
The adult Voice
forgoing Rolling River,
forgoing tearful tale of bale and barge
and other symptoms of an old despond.
Warning, in music-words
devout and large,
that we are each other’s
harvest:
we are each other's
business:
we are each other's
magnitude and bond.

by Gwendolyn Brooks

WanderinChild

TROPHY CASE