This is my final post on this offtopic discussion,
so email me privately, please.

Does Fedora have an off-topic list for Fedorans
to talk about anything ?    

I fixed the problem that I was having with the rpm-distro,
OpenMandriva.    They apparently only have
two mirrors for the install I was using, and one of those
is possibly dead, and the install defaulted to the dead
one.   It went unnoticed, I think because most of their users
are in France and Italy.     Along the way, their forum members, figured
out my problem, but I ended up finding two articles on their
wiki to help me change the mirror to the correct one.

     $ sudo dnf --refresh install om-mirror-selector
     $ sudo om-mirror-selector.sh -m

So now I have 4 functional operating systems on my
computer on separate drives:   Fedora Rawhide, Fedora 33,
OpenMandriva Alpha, and OpenMandriva Cooker with zen kernel
( znver1 ) built using clang.

Their leader, Bero, said their server was down yesterday, so I guess
that didn't help.     They apparently have a team of at least 10
developers using Element as their chat forum.   They were helpful.
They have one guy doing a mass-rebuild this week.

OpenMandriva uses Calamares installer, defaults to ext4, and
KDE Plasma 5.19 depending on the release you install.

The funny thing is that I still feel like a Linux novice, as there are
hundreds of things that I have no grasp of:    gaming, virtual-machines,
samba, actual practical use of the software, like gnucash, but especially
troubleshooting, and especially with troubleshooting wi-fi, and printer
problems, zero knowledge of perl, rust, python, bash, and only know a few
terminal commands, etc.

Cheers,

David Locklear