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This forum thread has a telling evolution, starting from "about ten minutes" for #Ubuntu 12.10 and "an hour maybe two" by 20.04? 🤣
system installation - How long should installing Ubuntu take? - Ask Ubuntu
https://askubuntu.com/questions/230134/how-long-should-installing-ubuntu-take

Gestern habe ich beschlossen, dass sich etwas grundlegendes in meinem Leben ändern muss. Ich bin nach Jahrzehnten auf Ubuntu privat* auf Fedora umgestiegen.
*) Dienstlich weiter ein von der Firma gebautes Ubuntu-Derivat, da kann ich nichts drehen.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
iLe:
🎵 Un Amor De La Calle
#iLe
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ufnoTzJt2FImTzPCSjXQH

Supreme Court conservatives hide behind their own masks as they upend the law (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-court-conservatives-have-their-own-masks
http://www.memeorandum.com/250724/p42#a250724p42

Trump had been eager to celebrate the U.S. strikes on Iran,
but a new report indicates the attack set back Iran’s nuclear program by only a few months.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/politics/t…

Intel Report on Iran Upends Victory Lap Trump Was Hoping for at NATO
President Trump had been eager to celebrate the U.S. strikes on Iran, but a new report indicates the attack set back Iran’s nuclear program by only a few months.

Third attempt, it calls this round replacing #ubuntu and the manual partition page seemed to have things right, but I'm surprised an installer that takes so long has so little to say. /var/log/installer peeps a DEBUG now and then, but betrays no secrets. 52 minutes and counting, just passed probert.network and another flurry of udevadm empty queue successes.

Been a few months since I turned my ancient Alienware laptop into a #linux daily drive and so far, mostly, so good; no real complaints.
It has an #nVidia 770M in it, but I've been using the default #Ubuntu Nouveau graphics…

Playing with WinApps on Fedora Podman.
What's WinApps? "Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration."
https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps

GitHub - winapps-org/winapps: Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration. Hard fork of https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps/
Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration. Hard fork of https://github.com/Fmst...

https://youtu.be/loqtUyNgnAo?feature=shared

The Trump regime plans to sign executive orders that will end cashless bail and “ask law enforcement officials to work to ensure that people arrested in [D.C.] are taken into federal custody.”
In other words, the regime is threatening to put any dissenters arrested in D.C. into concentration camps.

Trump signs executive orders aimed at ending cashless bail in D.C. and across the country
Trump plans to sign an executive order Monday aimed at eliminating cashless bail for arrested suspects in Washington, D.C., a senior White House official said.