u/KlyeUnbranded

As we move into warmer months many are itching to get out. Completely normal. Before you head out, please make sure you are checking both your vehicle and trailer and conducting any maintenance that needs to be done. Cleaning up rust from sitting through the winter, checkin for dry rot cracks in the tires, checking suspension for stability. All the normal things you should check. It's an easy task to over look. Stay safe out there and have fun.

I have a 2015 11 inch MacBook Air with 8GB ram. A unicorn I know. I decided to try Fedora because the internet said most things “just worked”. It turned out the installer on 43 threw an error around the 88% mark. I am not a Linux expert but I kept getting a failed to fetch an image from Fedora. Redownloaded and checked hash. Recreated the install media. Passed the self test at the start of the install. Same error, at the 88% mark for copying software (step 2 of 4).

I ended up seeking out a Fedora 42 image, found it on a mirror in the UK. Install was flawless. Got the WiFi working. Everything else worked out of the gate. Did the upgrade to 43. That also went flawless. I am not sure what the issue was with the 43 installer, but figured I would at least let the community know about my experience. Oh, before I forget, it was the main release that comes with Gnome. I didn’t try the other versions.

I have been fighting with my Logitec MX 3 mouse on my Debian laptop for a long time. Specifically the "Gesture" button. It refused to work for a very long time. I tried Solaar, and it was unable to get permission to write to /dev/uinput. No matter what I tried it just was not able to get past the permission issue. Next I tried Piper. For whatever reason I could not save any changes to the mouse configuration. Once again, I was fighting with permissions.

After 3 days of frustration, I had to reinstall both of those, set them to default, then purge them from the system. After that I was able to use logiops which create a daemon called logid. There is no GUI that I could find and I had to create the entire from "almost" scratch. It does come with a default config file in which every line is commented out. I used that as a starting point. Another four hours of work and I got it working.

I am not sure if this is specially a Debian issue, but everything I read on various forums and reddit posts said that Solaar would "just work". It did not. Did Debian break something in kernel 6.12.74_deb13+1-amd64 (the version I am using)? Or was it a deeper problem and/or I am missing something obvious?

Thanks for any help.