Hi! I’ve been working on a little side project I’d like to share for anyone interested: Skip’s Rocky Desktop Spin! (formerly called “No Compromises ISO” - as in no compromises for usability or desktop ease of use. You can download the live installable ISO here: https://skiprocky.linuxdn.org/Rocky_N…

[image] skip77: (re)built Xorg/X11, the MATE desktop environment, LightDM, Compiz, and several other application packages for Rocky/RHEL 10 from Fedora sources rl10 dosnt work on old laptop. linux is not old pc friendly anymore hp folio i7 3rd gen (1M9470M)

Yes, this is correct. Unfortunately Rocky 10 (and also RHEL 10 / CentOS Stream 10) require x86_64-v3 processor support or newer. In practice this means hardware released in the last 8 years or so. Rocky 9 supports x86_64-v2 , which extends it to hardware in the past ~12 years. I will say, I’ve s…

I’m testing out EL10.1 and trying to add the Mate desktop but I’m getting this error: sudo dnf groupinstall "MATE-Desktop" Copr repo for MateDesktop-EL10 owned by skip77 0.0 B/s | 0 B 00:24 Errors during dow…

Just ran " sudo dnf groupinstall “MATE-Desktop”" again and connected this time. Mate is now up and running on RL10.1

Just commenting here that the Mate Desktop install on RL10.1 is working as expected. This is running in a Vbox vm on F43. Until this setup survives a point update I will not consider using RL10 on real hardware. I do intend to build BackupPC as a project. I identified the network issue to be the fa…

OK how did you get MATE install on RL 10.1.? Is RL10.1 a LIVE distro or did you start with something else and added MATE? I started with the RL 10.1 KDE LIVE distro and managed to get it installed as a VM using VMware Workstation Player 25H2. I simply not a big fan of XYZ.0 or XYZ.1 installs… other…

No this should not be a problem for me I am running an AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12 Core CPU with 128 GiB of RAM, and a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Graphics Card

I did a minimal install of RL10.1 from the boot.iso or netinstall.iso I can’t remember. Did you go to the link skip posted for his copr repo and follow the instructions found there?

Easiest will be downloading Skip’s Mate Live ISO and using that to install it.

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HUMMMMM I just ran dnf groupinstall “MATE-Desktop” and the following comes back:

“Module or Group ‘MATE-Desktop’ is not available. Error: Nothing to do”

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