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I have discovered flatpacks.
#ubuntu #linux

I used to recommend #Ubuntu, and as of 2024, I started recommending #LinuxMint, especially #LMDE to the many (almost no people) who ask me for

Friday was an adventure in tech futility. Started with a gifted laptop, Dell Latitude, and the simple task of wiping its poor excuse for an OS and installing something sensible.
#Ubuntu wasn't it. OMG Ubuntu, what HAVE you done?! Tried first #UbuntuStudio then stock Ubuntu, 24.04, 25.04, 25.11, all the installers simply hung, no log, no journalctl, CPU chugging but nada detectable action, even hours later, just "Preparing…"
Net advice is old, of course, but points to the snap bootstrap service, fix has no effect but Kee-riced look at the mount table?! Snaps crackle and pop all over! Wtf, why? 🤯
And it is tedious. These 'DVD' iso files are 7GB, so, after 6 hours frustration, I thought, let's try something smaller to cut the turnaround time. #Debian13 simple bare-bones net-install seemed a good candidate …
And it was. Seemless install. 😊

Uh. Is this a known #ubuntu thing? Or is this a quirk of #Wayland?
Sometimes when I bring a window from the background it stays like this, text and icons all garbled. Sometimes if I resize or jiggle it, it sorts itself out, sometimes I have to kill it.

What's up with #Remmina on #Ubuntu? I have weird typing issues (duplicate characters, etc.). Switched to plain #FreeRDP and then all is well.
It did take me a while to find out what the command line is…

wild kubuntu seem to have the nextcloud desktop app in the "store" regular ubuntu did not.
I had to run:
sudo apt install nextcloud-desktop
the nextcloud website has you download some appImage file that I have no idea how to use.
also nextcloud on kubuntu was slow as ass. settings pane took 30 seconds to open.
#ubuntu

🛡️ #du_setup – Automated Server Setup & Hardening Script for #Debian & #Ubuntu #opensource

So, wieder ein #Ubuntu unter das Volk gebracht.

Has anyone else dropped Kubuntu because of youtube dropped frames?
I think I'm the first.
#ubuntu

@… vielleicht einen Blick wert. Basis #ubuntu für den #Windows Ausstieg #linux

g'damit. why is it that even #ubuntu 25.10 still only has #libsodium v1.0.18? 1.0.20 is even getting stale (actually i just checked v1.0.21 is out since two weeks) and all i need is only 1.0.19, breaks my CI/CD pipeline.

Hmm. After waking up kubuntu Firefox will not load, the system monitor is not responding and restart action seem to not respond.
#ubuntu

Schnell noch die Weihnachtszeit bei Muddi nutzen um ihr Kubuntu 25.04 auf 25.10 zu updaten bevor es in 36 Tagen keine updates mehr bekommt.
#Linux #Ubuntu

who uses nextcloud and which provider do you use? self hosted folks need not respond.
#linux #ubuntu

This meme is probably going to trigger the #Ubuntu purists, you know, the so-called Snap elitists.
I oppose Snap and Ubuntu, and as a Debian and Secureblue user, I consider Snap unnecessary bloat.
#Debian

Perhaps I'm not really using the right words.
I think I don't care about backups as much as I want seemless cloud file sync.
dropbox has not been seemless. Google drive does not seem to be working on KDE.
#ubuntu

Getting gpg-agent-ssh to work properly on #Arch #Linux is/was quite a pain. These things just worked on #Ubuntu derivatives out of the box, here one really needs to understand what is going on.
But it was an int…

Firefox is choking on video on my 4k monitor on Kubuntu. Youtube's status for nerds is showing 10 - 20% of frames dropped.
Chromium is fine. I think removing all the monitor scaling helps but does not fully fix it.
#ubuntu #linux

Converting some NTFS drives to ext4
#ubuntu

Je vois qu'il est possible d'installer #Ubuntu touch ou #PostmarketOS sur un #Fairphone4.
Avez vous des avis sur ces deux OS ?

A new puzzle: normally in #XOrg I can blank the screen with "xset dpms force off" and with KDE/Plasma I could bind this to a hot key, but in Gnome #Ubuntu 25.10 using #XFCE4 it will work from inside a terminal, but as a hotkey it blanks, pauses, then refreshes the screens. Why would this be? Or perhaps, is there a prefered method to instantly blank all screens in XFCE-4? Not to lock, just to turn them off.

GSConnect was interesting but I couldn't get the android phone to mount and I could only transfer one file at a time through the share option.
I'll just mount the phone with USB. wires are always better.
#ubuntu

Wenn ich mal #Linux auf Rechnern ausprobieren wollte, habe ich zu #Ubuntu #Mint gegriffen, zuletzt auch mal #RaspberryOS

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Love it when Ubuntu/Debian frees up space like this:
#apt #ubuntu #aptitude #debian

Today I installed #ZorinOS on a Thinkpad which initially came with #Ubuntu, but was never upgraded beyond 20.04... It worked like a charm! Really appreciate the Zorin dev's work! This is a good OS for family and friends in need of Windows like OS!
The fingerprint reader even just worked out of t…

OKAY. back to windows it is. Installing KDE on ubuntu and it being super laggy and then trying to uninstall it has my my Ubuntu no longer loading a UI at all. it's just a console input.
I tried. now I probably just need to reinstall Ubuntu to get back to a baseline.
#ubuntu

Really is wild how much little memory Ubuntu uses.
#ubuntu

Do yall have a cloud backup service on linux/ubuntu?
#ubuntu

TBH I don't really understand what gnome is. I guess it's the UI ubuntu uses?
but the Dash To Panel gnome extension feels great as someone who is coming from windows.
#ubuntu #gnome

hmmmm okay I tried to install KDE on ubuntu.... but I did it on X11 instead of wayland?? when I switch to wayland on the login screen and login it's not KDE though.. and trying to reinstall it doesn't do much.
also KDE is super laggy and runs badly.
#ubuntu

I take so many screenshots. My keyboard doesn't have a print screen button so I had to remap screen shot to control home
#ubuntu