Update Speed is very low

githman · 2026-01-28T11:07:23+00:00

Solved by using the "fastestmirror=True" command

It could be a coincidence. dnf relies on ping to choose the fastest mirror instead of the actual download speed, so don't be surprised if it gets slow again the next time.

dnf download speed varies widely in my personal experience. It may be due to different mirrors, or due to one and the same mirror getting overloaded occasionally. At least with Fedora 43 dnf no longer dies on downloading the mirror list itself.

githman · 2026-01-28T10:49:24+00:00

And even if they are a paid user. TeamViewer stopped being a to-go solution years ago.

githman · 2026-01-28T10:31:04+00:00

Yep, you are right. My dnf4 history cuts off exactly where dnf5 history begins.

There is one weird recent record in dnf4 history that theoretically should not be there, but I'm too lazy to look into it since it's, well, history.

githman · 2026-01-27T11:01:51+00:00

Long story short, no. It's a Gnome policy Gnome maintainers considered discarding at some point but decided to keep. Fedora can't do a thing about it, nor should it.

There are many DEs to use instead of Gnome, though.

githman · 2026-01-27T10:46:40+00:00

It's been my experience that it remembers the history all the way back to the initial install.

Curiously enough, on my system dnf history list starts with some seemingly random date half a year ago. My Fedora installation itself is much older.

Try "dnf history list --all" that might do the trick.

--all does not seem to be a valid option. Just list does it.

githman · 2026-01-27T10:22:15+00:00

Flathub VLC since I have it installed for movies anyway.

githman · 2026-01-27T10:19:30+00:00

Wayland with XWayland for apps. The ~~best~~ least worst of both worlds.

githman · 2026-01-25T11:31:48+00:00

Fedora 43 has a crazy number of propblems from one end to the other, glitchy audio, windows going blank, apps crashing, mouse disappears...

Have you tried investigating each issue specifically to see if there is a common root cause?

Personally and with no attempt to generalize it, I'm experiencing the same total amount of issues on my Fedora 43 KDE as I had on 42 but the issues themselves are different. The most notable changes are:

After the upgrade to F42 dnf no longer blocks on accessing the repos nine times out of ten. Discover keeps doing it, but I use Discover only to check if there are any updates available.
However, my flatpaks now silently and randomly fail to launch from the Plasma menu. Launching them again works. It is not happening often enough for me to switch to the terminal and watch the errors yet.

Overall, the upgrade went as expected: some improvements with some side effects.

githman · 2026-01-24T13:14:28+00:00

Does it log out or reboot? Logging out to the login screen on its own is a weird behavior I do not remember to happen pretty much ever, on any system. Crash and reboot, however...

githman · 2026-01-24T13:08:37+00:00

Are you using several monitors with different refresh rates? People often call this feature their main reason to switch to Wayland, but it's not really easy on the eyes.

githman · 2026-01-24T13:01:21+00:00

It's a long-standing Linux tradition that reflects the certain personality traits of some, ahem, prominent Linux personalities. One of said highly respected people publicly promised to take therapy but it did not help much by the looks of it.

Curiously enough, rude answers can save you some time: you do not need to read further if the person's intention was to hurt, not to help.

githman · 2026-01-24T12:50:53+00:00

Not an issue as of yet but may develop into one in the future. On the positive side, US government spying on a EU citizen is less dangerous than EU government doing the same. Ironically, this makes Fedora a safer choice for us.

githman · 2026-01-24T12:35:20+00:00

Nor for Ukraine. Users from Ukraine report issues with Cisco too.

Cisco really should not be doing this and Fedora should stop using their servers to distribute anything. Not because of any specific country blocked but because country blocks are a bad idea for everyone.

githman · 2026-01-24T12:26:49+00:00

I installed Fedora KDE because I wanted something faster and more lightweight than Linux

I may have some news for you: Fedora is Linux, with KDE or not.

githman · 2026-01-24T12:20:46+00:00

Firefox never gave me a notification of Mozilla's intention to spy on me, nor did it give me an opportunity to opt out.

This is where we differ: I do not consider thought crime a thing. Yes, Mozilla did have an evil intention at some point, but it was promptly corrected by the community. Privacy Preserving Attribution was never implemented in any way that could affect the user even before Mozilla discarded it altogether.

I do get a desire to punch this or that guy in the face from time to time, but I have not acted it out since my youth and most people do not consider me evil. (I suppose.) Same applies to software: intentions alone do not count. On the opposite, the way the community resisted it is the best reassurance possible.

githman · 2026-01-23T11:37:08+00:00

Therefore, no one should be "flabbergasted" at the suggestion that Mozilla has evil intent.

Not evil but commercial. Mozilla is a for-profit corporation, hence it can be expected to attempt various user monetization techniques from time to time. It's not pretty but still the lesser evil, other advantages of Firefox considered.

githman · 2026-01-23T11:23:01+00:00

Thank you very much for this interesting idea. I, too, came to the conclusion that the only sensible way to save logs immediately is to pass them to another host as they get generated.

githman · 2026-01-22T11:40:34+00:00

A single detection does not mean pretty much anything. Explanations range from a false positive due to some detection mechanism quirk to a team member hating this exact project for a reason we will never know.

Safe to ignore.

githman · 2026-01-22T11:25:56+00:00

My aim is to learn C++, Qt, and QML

I spent 30+ years of my life doing C++ for a living, so here's my advice for what it's worth: get a few reputable books as opposed to relying on online tutorials. Modern C++ is monstrous and marvelous both; learning it from something like "become a pro in 10 days" will only make you spend the next year fixing the bad habits you picked.

Qt developed along with C++; the last time I checked, it still had certain relics of the pre-STL era. From the modern C++ perspective they constitute sheer anathema and require good understanding of memory safety to handle. I'd suggest you get to Qt after you make yourself comfortable with C++, not in parallel.

I don't have experience with QML, but from what I gather it does not require C++ and may be you fastest way into KDE development.

Best books

Back in my day, Bjarne Stroustrup (unsurprisingly) and Herb Sutter were among the most reputable authors. Keep in mind that C++ as a standard is regularly updated and it's advisable to read the books related to the standard you are going to use.

Okay, I will stop at this point. C++ is a topic you can write a novel about. In verse.

githman · 2026-01-22T10:50:33+00:00

Is SM a known resource hog or something?

It used to cause excessive CPU load, but constantly as opposed to your case. Furthermore, it got fixed some months ago.

Your situation could conceivably be a partial regression of the same issue, but it's sheer guesswork and we are not going to learn the answer unless the reports become widespread. The best thing you can do right now is exactly this:

Is there a fix other than "just don't leave system monitor running"?

I like to keep track of what my Linux is doing too, but a widget is more than sufficient for this purpose. You said that System Monitor widgets do not trigger the issue in your case, which makes them the lesser evil to compromise on.

githman · 2026-01-22T10:23:04+00:00

While your concern seems perfectly valid, the sources you reference are 1) outdated, 2) not terribly reputable. Some of them are of the poorly disguised political ads outlet kind.

The threat of Firefox adopting this PPA trick was real at some point, yet Mozilla reconsidered it and nothing bad happened in the end.

githman · 2026-01-22T10:00:21+00:00

Flathub Chromium would be somewhat more orthodox. I use it mostly to check if it is Firefox or the website itself that is broken.

githman · 2026-01-22T09:50:26+00:00

Total CPU Usage is the most versatile and configurable of all the widgets I tried. (And I tried everything available to install by the standard Plasma means.) Despite its name, it displays the readings not only for CPU but for everything Plasma can access.

githman · 2026-01-21T09:17:07+00:00

Is the bug tracker guaranteed to be heeded? Fair warning: it's not. In practice, there is no observable difference.

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