Project: Moving main laptop to Korora 25 Desktop
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Yeah Korora is just not going to happen. It's a dud, not ready for the real world imo. Not working on 2 for 2 physical systems I've tried it on.
Fedora it is.
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@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Yeah Korora is just not going to happen. It's a dud, not ready for the real world imo. Not working on 2 for 2 physical systems I've tried it on.
Fedora it is.
That's surprising I've had literally no issues with it. Works wonderfully. Granted I don't have a discrete graphics card.
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@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Yeah Korora is just not going to happen. It's a dud, not ready for the real world imo. Not working on 2 for 2 physical systems I've tried it on.
Fedora it is.
I did Korora 25 Cinnamon on my desktop, a dell optiplex 890, a month ago and on my laptop, a MacBook Pro, last night.
Both worked fine.
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Fedora 25 just randomly froze while mid upgrade process. Hard reset my laptop, now continuing...
I'm starting to think it's my hard drive... it's an m.2. But the SMART status is all good. Disk manager says it's okay too.
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I still haven't been able to properly reboot or shut down Fedora 25. After hitting shutdown or restart, the desktop icons disappear, curser goes away, but background and "task bar" stay up and just stays frozen like that.
Maybe after everything is fully updated it will work right.
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@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Fedora 25 just randomly froze while mid upgrade process. Hard reset my laptop, now continuing...
I'm starting to think it's my hard drive... it's an m.2. But the SMART status is all good. Disk manager says it's okay too.
Have you tried Fedora 25 Gnome or Korora 25 Gnome too?
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@black3dynamite said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Fedora 25 just randomly froze while mid upgrade process. Hard reset my laptop, now continuing...
I'm starting to think it's my hard drive... it's an m.2. But the SMART status is all good. Disk manager says it's okay too.
Have you tried Fedora 25 Gnome or Korora 25 Gnome too?
No, not on the laptop I'm doing this all on. I'd prefer to use Cinnamon. I kind of hate gnome. I suppose I can try xfce or mate in the end of things if I don't nerd-rage first and go back to Win10, lol.
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@Tim_G Maybe try without UEFI, UEFI without Secure Boot, or without full disk encryption.
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@black3dynamite said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Tim_G Maybe try without UEFI, UEFI without Secure Boot, or without full disk encryption.
I already installed it this time without disk encryption. If I have to turn off UEFI and Secure boot I'm just not even gonna follow through with this.
On my laptop, I don't even think I can legacy boot. I don't remember seeing an option to turn off UEFI.
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@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@black3dynamite said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@Tim_G Maybe try without UEFI, UEFI without Secure Boot, or without full disk encryption.
I already installed it this time without disk encryption. If I have to turn off UEFI and Secure boot I'm just not even gonna follow through with this.
On my laptop, I don't even think I can legacy boot. I don't remember seeing an option to turn off UEFI.
I'll give Korora Gnome a shot, then Fedora 25 Gnome. If either are successful I'll update my original posts.
If not... well, not sure yet.
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So far, Korora Gnome is working well. I haven't updated yet. It installed, it reboots and shuts down (so far).
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Except it won't shut down or reboot unless I hold in thw power button.
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@Tim_G I found a couple of links that might help you.
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?81702-Linux-installation-in-ASUS-ROG-GL552VW-DH71 -
@Tim_G said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
Except it won't shut down or reboot unless I hold in thw power button.
Put Fedora 25 Minimal on it and see if the reboot problem persists.
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Also, didn't @scottalanmiller have problems with the Fedora/RHEL family on his?
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@JaredBusch said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
...month ago and on my laptop, a MacBook Pro, last night.Fed 25 installed bare metal on the MacBook Pro?
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@JaredBusch said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
I did Korora 25 Cinnamon...on my laptop, a MacBook Pro, last night.
Both worked fine.
Is this a dual boot with OSX?
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@FATeknollogee said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@JaredBusch said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
I did Korora 25 Cinnamon...on my laptop, a MacBook Pro, last night.
Both worked fine.
Is this a dual boot with OSX?
No. I told the Korora installer to reclaim all space.
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@FATeknollogee said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
@JaredBusch said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
...month ago and on my laptop, a MacBook Pro, last night.Fed 25 installed bare metal on the MacBook Pro?
Well, the Korora 25 Cinnamon distro of Fedora 25, but yes.
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@JaredBusch said in Project: Moving main laptop to Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop:
No. I told the Korora installer to reclaim all space.
You went all in!
Looks like I'm going to head down that same path. I'm backing up my MackBook Pro now.
