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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. 😊

Hat jemand Erfahrung damit #Ubuntu auf einem Lenovo Ideapad 720S aufzuspielen und möchte die Erfahrung teilen? Oder konkreter gefragt: Lief alles glatt oder gab es Punkte, die du gern vorher gewusst hättest?
(Ich habe >10 Jahre Erfahrung mit Ubuntu, es geht mir nicht so sehr um die Nutzungserfahrung.) #Windows10

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

#ubuntu?!
#china's #mcdonalds steped up their #linux game

This aged like milk #Ubuntu!
https://mg.co.za/thought-leader/opinion/2024-05-17-ubuntu-is-for-all-people-including-the-lgbtq-communit…

They say a change is as good as being arrested, or something like that, and being reckless (and retired) I upgraded my vintage laptop to #Ubuntu 25.10 because why not, it was already broken from a few upgrades ago, and it was already clear #plasma on #x11 with my Radeon 570 was, well, not fun.
So down the list I go. Those of you on Mac or that other O/S ("little&soft"?) won't understand, but I went through each of the various desktops, just to see, not expecting a lot given my hardware.
Well, Ubuntu on Wayland works now, but, egad, it is ugly. Gnome and its Classic look, well, almost the same. One of the others is just a blank screen, but remember, my machine was already broken.
I ended up in #xfce which I hadn't used in, omg, never mind, only I'm thinking, hey old man, learn some new tricks! Need to add panel and some widgets and…
why is my panel's outline slowly blinking red? (left it in Add mode and buried the dialog box)

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…

Every God damned time I install #Ubuntu on an old macbook with a Norwegian keyboard (which is more often than you might think), I want to kill myself because of how the keyboard is setup. For example ' (apostrophe) is not defined at all. 😱
I finally made some notes for myself:

Norwegian Mac Keyboard Tweaks (Ubuntu 24.04)
Norwegian Mac Keyboard Tweaks (Ubuntu 24.04). GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

The hotel setup #ubuntu #thinkpad #T480s

🏳️‍🌈 Ubuntu Right Now! 🏳️‍🌈
#Ubuntu #Linux

A not-so-boring talk on #ubuntu touch at #openalt

wow... I was this close to fake a heart attack to get out of the office ...
Tried for one hour to fix a network share which suddenly was not accessible this morning.
Samba share on an #Ubuntu machine.
Some Win Clients accessing the share.
Share was visible in Explorer but could not be accessed.
Ping OK
Rebooted server and clients, restarted samba services, …

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…

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.

#Ubuntu he who should not he named: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115165169369701417

So i've installed #CachyOS on my main PC and must say that it feels really great. After over a decade on #Ubuntu and/or #Debian based distros,

#Meme #Memes #Debian #Ubuntu

Go read #Ubuntu, while I'm asleep, and #Boost content!

According to #FreePG right now: #ArchLinux, #Debian, #Fedora, #NixOS and #Ubuntu. Now #Gentoo joins that list, except that instead of silently making intrusive patching on top of GnuPG, we provide it as a separate package (app-crypt/freepg), and mark appropriately:
$ gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.5.13-freepg

🏳️‍🌈 Ubuntu couldn’t handle the pride update! 🏳️‍🌈
#Ubuntu #Pride #Linux #LinuxMint

#Ubuntu #Linux #Queerphobia #Transphobia