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    1. Graphics glitch on new install of Ubuntu

      So I have an old MacBook Pro (mid-2014) Core i5 which I've just installed Ubuntu 22.04.2 on. Most things are working fine but the screen randomly flickers and then goes black and then after...

      So I have an old MacBook Pro (mid-2014) Core i5 which I've just installed Ubuntu 22.04.2 on. Most things are working fine but the screen randomly flickers and then goes black and then after varying lengths of time will pop back on again. I've been googling around and found lots of instances of similar graphics glitches but can't quite find a solution.

      Any suggestions?

      7 votes
    2. What are the benefits of using Linux for the less computer competent?

      I've been experimenting with Ubuntu and Mint on VirtualBox for a few days, and I fail to see the utility for less tech savvy people such as myself. I have experience in HTML and CSS as well as...

      I've been experimenting with Ubuntu and Mint on VirtualBox for a few days, and I fail to see the utility for less tech savvy people such as myself. I have experience in HTML and CSS as well as dabbling in Codecademy for recreation, but higher level computing is new to me. I don't know how to navigate a terminal nor how to stop Windows from crashing, but I'm open to learn.

      72 votes
    3. Best Linux Distro for gaming/noob

      Hey y’all. Recently picked up a Cyberpower prebuilt. Looking to install a Linux distro on it for gaming. Currently have Ubuntu on my laptop, so I’m not a total noob, but my experience is still...

      Hey y’all. Recently picked up a Cyberpower prebuilt. Looking to install a Linux distro on it for gaming. Currently have Ubuntu on my laptop, so I’m not a total noob, but my experience is still low. Not a big fan of having to use the terminal. Any distros y’all would recommend? Am leaning toward Pop_OS or SteamOS.

      7 votes
    4. How do Xubuntu and Linux Mint XFCE Edition compare in terms of lightness and performance?

      I'm considering moving back to the Linux world after having jumped ship to Windows around Ubuntu 20.04, mostly due to increasing bloat, snap and other things I don't recall. I've used Xubuntu in...

      I'm considering moving back to the Linux world after having jumped ship to Windows around Ubuntu 20.04, mostly due to increasing bloat, snap and other things I don't recall.

      I've used Xubuntu in the past, the Thunderbird theme was good but I was disappointed by how little customization was allowed there, even the selection of wallpapers seems bland, especially when I compare it to Mint now. Even when it comes to UX experience, it seems Mint puts a lot of effort in enhancing the user experience?

      So how do these two compare in terms of performance? As long as the difference isn't substantial, I'm leaning towards Linux Mint now mostly because of two reasons:

      1. Better UX, selection of wallpapers, customizing ability, etc. as described above.
      2. Mint is a community project unlike Canonical which is corporate, I like this aspect too.

      What is your own preference in this regard and what do you suggest?

      4 votes
    5. Quick question after a kernel update, mostly fear-based

      As some are aware, my NAS hates me. Anyway, I ran an update just now and it spat out the following: Setting up linux-firmware (1.187.27) ... update-initramfs: Generating...

      As some are aware, my NAS hates me. Anyway, I ran an update just now and it spat out the following:

      Setting up linux-firmware (1.187.27) ...
      update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.13.0-30-generic
      I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sdb2
      I: (UUID=e6480da4-95f0-4cf3-a047-a43ef09f978f)
      I: Set the RESUME variable to override this.
      update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.11.0-27-generic
      I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sdb2
      I: (UUID=e6480da4-95f0-4cf3-a047-a43ef09f978f)
      

      UUID=e6480da4-95f0-4cf3-a047-a43ef09f978f is /swap.

      /dev/sdb2: UUID="e6480da4-95f0-4cf3-a047-a43ef09f978f" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="329487d0-88c7-4d47-ab82-dc4b80bd3bfe"
      

      The full log is below. If I reboot this thing, will it tell me that it cannot find GRUB like the previous installation that shit the bed?

      My assumption is that its simply telling me that it's enabled some sort of hibernation and will use the /swap for that.. but I'm totally on edge with this thing. I don't have a lot to set up with the system-side of things, so I put off trying to fix the old installation from the previous post until later.

      Anyway, does anything here seem fishy?

      Full output The following packages will be upgraded: linux-firmware 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 115 MB of archives. After this operation, 2,980 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 linux-firmware all 1.187.27 [115 MB] Fetched 115 MB in 5s (24.0 MB/s) (Reading database ... 201924 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../linux-firmware_1.187.27_all.deb ... Unpacking linux-firmware (1.187.27) over (1.187.26) ... Setting up linux-firmware (1.187.27) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.13.0-30-generic I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sdb2 I: (UUID=e6480da4-95f0-4cf3-a047-a43ef09f978f) I: Set the RESUME variable to override this. update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.11.0-27-generic I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sdb2 I: (UUID=e6480da4-95f0-4cf3-a047-a43ef09f978f) I: Set the RESUME variable to override this.

      ➜ ~ sudo blkid
      /dev/sdb2: UUID="e6480da4-95f0-4cf3-a047-a43ef09f978f" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="329487d0-88c7-4d47-ab82-dc4b80bd3bfe"
      /dev/sdb5: UUID="842ddd01-963f-4cea-b04f-a52b6b719a16" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="21a6f4e9-9893-423a-a30d-5981ac30b02b"
      /dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
      /dev/loop1: TYPE="squashfs"
      /dev/loop2: TYPE="squashfs"
      /dev/loop3: TYPE="squashfs"
      /dev/loop4: TYPE="squashfs"
      /dev/loop5: TYPE="squashfs"
      /dev/loop6: TYPE="squashfs"
      /dev/loop7: TYPE="squashfs"
      /dev/sda1: LABEL="Ext-4tb" UUID="6024-5AA9" TYPE="exfat" PARTLABEL="My Passport" PARTUUID="0b02c637-1696-4e38-85a1-9bb43103e675"
      /dev/sdb1: UUID="5cfbef39-3eb7-41e6-8223-e6881b4f3286" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="7df42fb5-0531-457c-92b5-fbf1878b043f"
      /dev/sdb3: UUID="4f30a4a2-9f28-4831-a22c-dc5b969c4f17" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="77f89dbc-f0d7-40d5-9174-ac03a786502e"
      /dev/sdb4: PARTUUID="93457ed0-e4ee-439f-9f41-5c106fb531e6"
      /dev/sdc1: PARTUUID="59c46c38-983b-41a1-9b01-17932ce1408c"
      /dev/sdc2: UUID="5A80-D8B1" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="dc39bca7-9d28-45df-9474-ae879b51304e"
      /dev/sdc3: UUID="5c159f93-0d79-46ca-81bc-862f9703c439" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="db95b761-edd1-423e-8f23-748bc3e24fbc"
      /dev/loop8: TYPE="squashfs"
      /dev/loop9: TYPE="squashfs"
      /dev/loop10: TYPE="squashfs"
      /dev/loop11: TYPE="squashfs"

      ➜ ~ du -h /boot
      2.5M /boot/grub/i386-pc
      2.3M /boot/grub/fonts
      7.1M /boot/grub
      du: cannot read directory '/boot/lost+found': Permission denied
      16K /boot/lost+found
      147M /boot

      edit:

      here's my fstab
      UUID=842ddd01-963f-4cea-b04f-a52b6b719a16 /          ext4  errors=remount-ro 0   1
      # /boot was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
      UUID=5cfbef39-3eb7-41e6-8223-e6881b4f3286 /boot      ext4  defaults          0   2
      # /home was on /dev/sdb3 during installation
      UUID=4f30a4a2-9f28-4831-a22c-dc5b969c4f17 /home      ext4  defaults          0   2
      # swap was on /dev/sdb2 during installation
      UUID=e6480da4-95f0-4cf3-a047-a43ef09f978f none       swap  tf                0   0
      
      3 votes
    6. Fixing GRUB / Bad Kernels

      A few months ago I got a new to me HP Proliant ML310e Gen8. For the most part it works well, but I went to add some drives to it yesterday and grub / whateverthefuck doesn't like the one and only...

      A few months ago I got a new to me HP Proliant ML310e Gen8. For the most part it works well, but I went to add some drives to it yesterday and grub / whateverthefuck doesn't like the one and only kernel that is installed.

      I'm running Ubuntu 20.04. I looked around saw guides like this. this, and this -- but I'm not sure if this will fix the issue.

      After grub I get the ol'

      ---[end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) ]---
      

      I think I need to run something with initramfs or something, but I just want to be sure before I go messing around.

      The bad kernel listed is 5.11.0-27-generic. I'm a little out of my element with this part of things.

      2 votes
    7. Ubuntu sends http requests to Google cloud, here’s a fix

      Ubuntu has this package installed by default: network-manager-config-connectivity-ubuntu It's only purpose is to provide settings for NetworkManager to send requests to...

      Ubuntu has this package installed by default:
      network-manager-config-connectivity-ubuntu

      It's only purpose is to provide settings for NetworkManager to send requests to connectivity-check.ubuntu.com , and based on the result (AFAIK) detect redirection by captive portals and open an ISP's page (think public WiFi, or hotel rooms, where you need to authorize to access the net).

      Well, connectivity-check.ubuntu.com is hosted on Google cloud (you can check that by running:

      dig connectivity-check.ubuntu.com
      whois [the IP from previous query]
      

      ), so by default Ubuntu sends requests to a Google cloud page.
      I don't say Google counts daily active Ubuntu users (because many of those have the same IP), or that Google actively logs and analyzes that data. But some of you guys may not like that behavior.

      So what's the fix?

      Purge the package

      sudo apt purge network-manager-config-connectivity-ubuntu
      

      If you do need a captive portal detection, create your own config file to query some HTTP (not HTTPS) page of your choice, in the example below I have a Debian page used for the same purpose. Use your favorite text editor to create and edit /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/90-connectivity-custom.conf :

      [connectivity]
      uri=http://network-test.debian.org/nm
      

      Restart NetworkManager

      sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager
      

      If you run an Ubuntu derivative, please report if you have network-manager-config-connectivity-ubuntu installed in the comments.

      11 votes
    8. My first time using LInux as someone who's not a computer aficionado - It's perfect

      To clarify I'm not incompetent at computers, I'm sure people don't tend to install Linux if they aren't familiar with technology in a decent capacity. But for instance I can't code, can't operate...

      To clarify I'm not incompetent at computers, I'm sure people don't tend to install Linux if they aren't familiar with technology in a decent capacity. But for instance I can't code, can't operate the command line short of copying and pasting command, and don't really know what I'm doing with the technical aspect other than following online guides. I have used windows all my life. I'm Linux illiterate for lack of a better description.

      I decided I wanted some form of USB bootable computer, i'm familiar with chrome books, enjoy the light weight OS, and am bed bound to the google ecosystem so I when I saw how you could plug in a USB and have the computer boot into Chrome OS running off the USB I thought that sounded perfect. But during my research of discovery I found that Linux seemed like a very good alternative, I had always had it in my head that it was very technical and finicky system where to do a simple google search you had to code in half a dozen lines into the control terminal in some bizarre 2018 text adventure to use the web, I do exaggerate of course but the image I had conjured up over the years was of a very non-user friendly experience and a system made for those running technical aspects such as web servers and system management.

      I decided you can't knock it to you try it and besides turns out you can't get chrome OS on a 32GB USB it has to be 8GB or 16GB apparently. So I installed Ubuntu on my USB, no clue if this is some snooty distro, or a version of Linux that's mocked in the community, or the perfect distro but after minimal research it seemed the most popular and well received version to put it on a USB and booted into it.

      Instantly all my preconceived notions we're erased. It's clean, modern, simple, light weight, and easy to use with a very intuitive and familiar UI. It's pretty much a more open and degooglified (That's a nice word) version of Chrome OS. Since Firefox Quantum was released I emigrated over to try break some ties with google for privacy reasons like it's some pervy conjoined twin of mine, I know it's not good for me, I don't want it there but I can't get rid of it without harming me.

      It's got a simple UI that's familiar to windows albeit without all the bloatware and ads spread everywhere, it doesn't track you like window does (that's as far as I'm aware it did ask to collect anonymised telemetry data which I opted out of). With windows I'm so used to having to go through 3 different pop up windows to change a setting that in Ubuntu it feels like I'm missing features although I'm yet to find one that's not there. The best bit about Linux, is if theirs a setting you want to change and can't find, than someone online has wrote a guide giving you a command line code to copy paste into the terminal to fix it.

      Although to me it feels more on par with Chrome OS than Windows as a bare bones OS with simple apps and a web browser to use the internet with, in this regard Linux wins easy, way more open, no profit based motivation, and more accessible allowing itself to be used anywhere.

      All though that comparison holds up for the normal user and if you are someone who just browses the web and uses apps like Spotify than Linux is amazing it's not complex or difficult, truly wonderful.

      What makes Linux even better is the fact it's not a fair comparison, sure to me it's like Chrome OS due to the simple purposes I use it for but what's truly great is all that nerdy technical stuff I thought Linux was for you can do, if you are hosting a web server than linux gives you a free platform to do it, it feels like you are directly modding the PCB of the computer it's that open.

      In retrospect to typing all that I feel I've just blurted out a generic description of Linux and for those that use it I'm sure they just think I was naive, but this is more aimed at the average user, Linux, or at least Ubuntu, is great, it's: simple, easy, fresh, clean, open, modern, intuitive, versatile, multi-purpose, and free. It's not some difficult to use system, it's alarmingly simple, but infinitely useful

      It's easy to learn and difficult to master.

      64 votes
    9. Now that Ubuntu 18.04.1 is out, have you upgraded from 16.04 LTS?

      The first point release came out July 26, and enables upgrades from 16.04 LTS. https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/07/26/first-point-release-of-18-04-lts-available-today Have you upgraded your desktop?...

      The first point release came out July 26, and enables upgrades from 16.04 LTS.

      https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/07/26/first-point-release-of-18-04-lts-available-today

      Have you upgraded your desktop? Server?

      Happy with it? Any pitfalls?

      20 votes
    10. Ubuntu 18.04

      Anyone using Ubuntu 18.04 yet? I was thinking about installing it alongside Windows, but wasn't sure if I should wait and just install 16.04. Wanted to get a few opinions.

      9 votes