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Cake day: June 21st, 2023
  • No1@aussie.zonetoLinux@lemmy.ml•Realizing Arch isn't for me after updating broke VLC
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    4 months ago

    I had a similar moment of clarity after troubles with Manjaro and a couple other Arch based distros.

    I really like the idea of a rolling release, but definitely nedd stability first.

    I swung back the other way, and jumped on Ubuntu LTS. And gradually over time I ended up having to get updates from external repos etc, and ended up in the same position where updates broke things or didn’t work.

    Currently running Ubuntu, and I just do an upgrade to the latest release each 6 months - after waiting a month after release date for everything to settle down. The upgrades to new releases have gone smoothly, I get updates to newer versions of software, and it’s been very rare anything breaks. Being a popular distro also means a big community to help with any issues as well.

    Dammit, it’s like I just wrote an ad for Ubuntu!

  • No1@aussie.zonetoLinux@lemmy.ml•Welp, I just apt purge'd damn near everything except the kernel. How's your Friday going?
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    8 months ago

    You misunderstood what I wrote.

    I didn’t manually install anything.

    On my machine, Ubuntu upgrade/install AND sudo ubuntu-drivers install BOTH flag the drivers Ubuntu installed as manually installed.

    When you go to the Additional Drivers, it says you have manually installed drivers and all options are greyed out.

    Why do I want another driver? I found the open driver Ubuntu chose to install was flaky and provided substandard performance compared to the proprietary driver.

    And I have my commands to remove drivers, and for reference, the commands you give won’t help a noob, and your steps are incomplete for earlier Ubuntu versions.

  • No1@aussie.zonetoLinux@lemmy.ml•Welp, I just apt purge'd damn near everything except the kernel. How's your Friday going?
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    8 months ago

    Ubuntu Additional Drivers offered me a choice between 11 different nvidia drivers.

    nouveau,and then a mishmash of nvidia versions, open, proprietary and server.

    Like OP was probably trying to do, had to manually remove the existing driver before you could select anything. All those options were greyed out because of a ‘manual installed driver’

    And guess what did this ‘manual installed driver’? Me? No. Ubuntu’s own uograde or running the command for ubuntu to select the ‘besr driver’.

    Fortunately, I’d been through nvidia hell several times, and knew how to manually perform the removal and install, but felt horrified for any new users that might stumble into this. With changing versions, it can be difficult when searching to work out which results are actually relevant, and which are obsolete.

    Always remember anything with a wildcard is your enemy. Triple check before you can trust it and hit enter.

  • No1@aussie.zonetoLinux@lemmy.ml•Introducing SystemD Pilot, GUI app for managing systemd services
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    11 months ago

    NO! NO, I WON’T HAVE IT!

    I will not give up my command line, obscure, non-obvious commands that control my machine!

    It is an abomination that I don’t have to search for, and then wade through hundreds of AI generated pages of useless information just to show me what services are running with systemd!

    I am seriously considering starting my own startup system. I am thinking I could initiate (init) runlevels to start subsystems at various stages. If anyone is interested, hit me up.