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    Nightmare on boot street...

    Hi All I'm trying to remove Fedora 36 from a HDD partition and install 37 from a USB ISO over it (not upgrade from within 36) and and am having some tribbles... Background - 750 GB HDD with Win 7 resized to 550 GB and installed dual booting Fedora 36 from USB ISO successfully on remaining 200...
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    Issue installing NVIDIA Optimus driver

    Hi All I just encountered an error after attempting to install an Nvidia driver and wondered if anyone might know what the problem is please. Steps followed from this guide: 1. sudo dnf upgrade --refresh Completed successfully 2. sudo dnf autoremove nvidia* --purge sudo...
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    Issues installing ffmpeg and Blender

    Hi All I've just installed Fedora and there seems to be some conflicts when trying to install ffmpeg (to watch movies in browser I believe) per the below and Blender won't run either: sudo dnf install ffmpeg Last metadata expiration check: 0:14:28 ago on Thu 23 Feb 2023 19:03:40 GMT. Error...
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    ldlinux.c32 error message when trying to boot live usb distro

    Hi All I know you must be getting sick of beginners running into problems with Kali after your repeated warnings but hoping one of you might be kind enough to help this noob resolve the below issue so I can move from Kali to another distro - the lesson has been learned! After successfully...
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    Fedora/Pantheon - Timezone issue

    Hi All I've been having some issues correcting the time after just recently installing Fedora and the Pantheon DE. I finally managed to set Local time correctly by turning off NTP and using "~]$ sudo date --set 17:58:00" but RTC and UTC are different to the Local time and, whilst the Clock...
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    Noob trying to run before he can walk - Fedora 32-bit compatibility environment?

    Hi All I'm trying to install Phoenix Firestorm (Second Life Viewer) on Fedora 36 with the Pantheon DE but the install (although completing without apparent errors that I saw) won't fire up when clicking the launch icon in Applications and just does nothing. After actually reading the install...
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    New to Fedora/Linux - Quick Questions

    Hi All I'm trying to convince my partner to move from Windows to Linux and, after reviewing a number of distros, decided to give Fedora (with the Pantheon DE) a try! If anyone has 2 minutes to answer some initial noob questions below to get me up and running that would be much appreciated: 1...
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    Unable to enable USB live boot option in BIOS/UEFI - Inspiron 3505 - Windows 10 - Already tried disabling FastBoot

    Hi I'm trying to run a live version of Kali on an Inspiron 3505 running Windows 10 but I seem to have a limited BIOS menu rather than the original Dell with far more options that I'm seeing on other guides where they disable secure boot, enable USB booting and change the boot order etc. I've...
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