Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

[mns]

Hi morgano,

Thanks for your comment. We are almost neighbors then, as well as in similar lines of trade.

-mns

[ruario]

Hi, my name is Ruarí Ødegaard and I work for Opera software as the Linux desktop team leader. Earlier this month we released our first browser update in quite some time. While the official packages are currently only offered in .deb format we are increasingly interested in making Opera work correctly on a wider range of distros, which includes Magiea. Anyway, I thought I would join the forums in case any questions about Opera arise.

P.S. If you want an rpm, this might help.

[chippermon]

Hi All. My name is Chip. I live in Canada. I have been a long time user of Mandriva and always loved it but my old Toshiba is getting ragged so now I have this little Lenovo X140e. I run PCLOS on my desk PC and have been experimenting with openSUSE as well. I really like Mageia. It reminds me of my beloved Mandriva. I promised myself I would give Windows (8.1) another try with this new machine. Well, I gave it two days and that was enough. Too much trouble and too many bad memories. If I see Bill Gates I might punch him in the nose.

I will be comfortable with Mageia. I chose Gnome desktop. Very few issues getting going although a wallpaper disappearing/grey screen thing just started happening tonight. I will post for answers. So far I have found everything I need searching the forum. I am not very computer literate but I would like to be some day. Thanks for your efforts. Thanks for this wonderful community.

[isadora]

Chip and Ruari, thanks so much for your introductions.
Good to hear about Opera breathing on fresh air again.

And of course, that is what the forum is for, drop your questions, as detailed as possible.
Mageia is community-based, as you may know, and depending on (little) pieces of free-time from it's volunteers.
Enthusiasm has brought us, where we stand today, close to releasing version 5

Therefore, feel free to step in, in whatever module, And help making Mageia even more magical.

Wish you both great times around!!!!!

[morgano]

Hi ruario
Nice to see opera native support here
The new Opera is proposed for inclusion https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14912

I was a Opera fan for many years since 2.something, buying it when it was a pay-for software.
I really liked its mouse gestures and zoom which was firsts off on browsers, but most of all its ability to handle many daughter windows inside one main window, that could be hidden using full screen, so a developer/purchaser like me could relally compare many alternatives in a great way on a large screen (And small too, comparing to the other browsers ineficient use of screen area)
Later it got replaced with (IMO) a less useable tiling, could right click th etab row and make it tile.
I installed the newest stable using your script, and now i can not find any way to make it tile - is that correct?
Are there any plans to get multiple daughter windows / tiling back?

[unix007]

I am Brazilian and my name is john, I'm waiting for the release of Mageia 5 final version.

[isadora]

Welcome to the Mageia-forum John!!!!!
You can follow development for the new release at:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_5_Dev ... t_Planning

Meanwhile we are in search for people, testing the latest beta:
https://www.mageia.org/en/5/

Either way, have magical times around!!!!

[georgi]

It was a while since my first post here but I will introduce myself anyway:

My real name is Georgi (George) and I'm from Bulgaria. I'm a hard core user of Debian (also Debian based) distros and I hope that someday Mageia will be my primary distro of choice. One thing which I don't like in Mageia is the "dependency hell" which often happens after system upgrade ( in my case 3 -> 4.1). After the upgrade *some* packages were orphaned and I (like a Debian user) decided to delete them... Well...

I'm waiting for Mageia 5 and I hope that it will have KDE 4.14.x because Plasma 5 is still not very stable.

[isadora]

Nevertheless a very warm welcome for you georgi!!!!

Regarding your wishes towards KDE 4.14 you could read:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_5_beta2#KDE

Also feel free to support Mageia in whatever way:
https://www.mageia.org/en/contribute/

Wish you magical times around!!!!

[georgi]

Nevertheless a very warm welcome for you georgi!!!!

Regarding your wishes towards KDE 4.14 you could read:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_5_beta2#KDE

Also feel free to support Mageia in whatever way:
https://www.mageia.org/en/contribute/

Wish you magical times around!!!!

Looks like my wishes are already a reality.

[talgarik]

hello everybody, installed Mageia last night, usually Im on Kubuntu, it looks gorgeous, the best KDE I've seen so far.
After this intro I will start using it, I guess I will be back soon for help

[isadora]

You are very welcome to the Mageia forum talgarik!!!!

For newcomers i would very much appreciate the following informational site:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Documentation

Enjoy, share and have magical times around!!!!

[talgarik]

For newcomers i would very much appreciate the following informational site:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Documentation

Thanks, I was already digging into that

[wayfaerer]

Hey everybody, I'm Wayfaerer, but most people call me J.J. Wayfaerer is an instrumental jam from my favorite band and it also fits me because I'm a traveler. I started on Windows 95 when I was a little kid and eventually tried linux in 2009 when I went to college (for Zoology). I used Fedora and that really scared me away from Red Hat Linux. I switched to Kubuntu and used it happily from 2010 to 2014. I could even play all my video games on it.

Now that I've learned a little of this or that, I'm ready to take the next step in my linux knowledge. I really believe in linux and free open source software in general, so I wanted to get in on a project that didn't already have a bazillion people working on it. I want to learn enough to help make linux better and I think Mageia is the distro that currently suits my preferences and principles.

So now I'm back on Red Hat and I'm an Environmental Studies major and I'm running Mageia 4 chock full of tainted packages and I have a rudimentary understanding of bash and my life is awesome.

My particular area of interest is gaming capability (I know I know, I should just dual boot windows, right?). My mission is to successfully run Aion and Assassin's Creed 1&2 on Mageia. That's pretty much all there is to know about me. I'm ready to jump right in if anybody can point me in the right direction.

[jkerr82508]

There are lots of ways to get involved:
http://www.mageia.org/en/contribute/

Jim

[isadora]

Hi and welcome J.J.!!!!

Great news you want to get actively involved, thumbs up.
Hope you have magical times around!!!!

[doktor5000]

My particular area of interest is gaming capability (I know I know, I should just dual boot windows, right?). My mission is to successfully run Aion and Assassin's Creed 1&2 on Mageia.

Dual-booting is not a necessity anymore, only required for stuff that wine does not yet offer, e.g. everything that mandates DirectX 11.

FWIW, I've got the windows version of steam running in wine, most games run fine out of the box. And with some tweaks available at wine appdb https://appdb.winehq.org most other games will also work fine.
Just completed Borderlands The Pre-Sequel on linux running under wine, after I got tired of booting to windows simply to run a game just installed it under linux

All three games you listed should run OK given their gold ratings:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. ... n&iId=9541
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. ... n&iId=6807
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. ... &iId=19584

Steam offers a linux client and a lot of games as native linux version which runs pretty well here.
Also a lot of games are now offered as native linux version, e.g. via the Humble Store / Humble Bundle.
Be sure to check out https://www.gamingonlinux.com/

[wayfaerer]

Wow, thank you all so much for the overwhelmingly positive response! I'm really glad I went with this project and I hope I can make a difference. Thanks for the links!

[doktor5000]

Feel free to ask about any wine issues, but please use a separate thread for that in the basic support subforum, thanks.

[dl9220]

High All

Dirk from Belgium here, joined in here to get a closer look at the project and read up on it. Reading up won't be a problem, saw one of the most complete Wiki/manuals/info one can wish for... and that's a good reason for me to join and follow. Might even get me converted from Mint to Mageia

Cheers

[isadora]

Welcome Dirk, from Belgium!!!!!

A good way to follow, reading before jumping into the deep.
In this case, the magic of Mageia.

Anyway, we wish you great times around!!!!!

[dl9220]

Tnx

[ahealthyearth]

Hello wonderful Mageia community!
My name is Adrian from Fowler Indiana, USA and I just found your distro a few days ago. And it is the perfect match for my desktop: an old Pentium 4 HP and my other IBM desktop. Fast, so far its stable and very robust. Not only does it work, but I think it is in fact one of the best ditros Ive tried; and Ive tried alot of them: from opensuse 13.2 kde, to debian, korora, fedora, manjaro, ubuntu (xubuntu, kubuntu, etc), centos, and a bunch others. Thank you for the work youve put into it.

Now that I'm here, I would like to make Mageia my primary OS for my Asus 1005ha but unfortunately there are a few key software that manages my battery life that is missing: laptop mode tools, tuned, and tuned-compat. I wrote a helpful guide on battery life in the opensuse forums that explains that with the proper configuration these software can reduce watt usage and idle usage. https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/505760-Improve-your-battery-life-helpful-tips-to-extend-battery-life!
According to powertop, after configuring these software my battery now gets 5.56W on idle without wifi and just under 6W with wifi on (idle).

My battery would constantly drain (about 2-3 hours to drain my large 7200mah battery 9 cell) and now in opensuse Im getting a 6 to 8 hours on constant usage. It lasts the whole day with normal usage (email+ browse, put comp to sleep, email +browse + music + write, put comp to sleep, listen to music + make a cup of coffee +leave laptop for a few hourse + maybe watch movie clips, put comp to sleep,etc). I would to switch to Mageia but I would need software that saves battery life.

Could someone kindly point me in the direction to where in the forum I would go to inquire into the battery software?
And I'm glad to be here!

[isadora]

If it were only for the name, a very warm welcome to the Mageia-forum ahealthyearth!!!!!!

Concerning your battery-issue, i would advise to open a separate topic, for this sub-forum is only meant for introductions.

[ahealthyearth]

If it were only for the name, a very warm welcome to the Mageia-forum ahealthyearth!!!!!!

Concerning your battery-issue, i would advise to open a separate topic, for this sub-forum is only meant for introductions.

Thank you Isadora for the warm welcome! I will do just that.