Recently "refreshed" an old spinning-rust tower pc of winXP/7 vintage, with a purge then installation of #Fedora #KDE
. This pooter has no #BlueTooth nor #WiFi inside, & i didn't feel motivated enough to investigate specs of card/s i'd need to buy & install, so i chickened out & just bought a cheap USB WiFi dongle. After the #KFedora40 install & tweaking, i wanted to bung both #Floorp
& #ZenBrowser browsers on it.
This project is only limping along.
- the USB dongle, supposedly good for 150 Mbps [which is >>> my available #NBN #Fraudband #FttN 37 Mbps on a good day], is giving me less than 1 Mbps. Have not yet tested to ascertain if it's the dongle's fault, or instead a WiFi blackspot in my house where i've set this tower. Sigh.
- neither Floorp nor ZenBrowser will launch, regardless of me placing the extracted tarball files with the executable in
/opt/, or in my Downloads directory, or in my user's~/bin, each of which are in my $PATH. I know it's not bad files, coz they work fine when tested in VMs in my main pooter. I also know it's not #SELinux [which i hate with a passion] 's fault, coz i tested with it fully disabled too, but still no joy. Grrrr.
Sassen frassen rassen.
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