#lubuntu

[jswatson]

in my fight against linux i restored windows for a bit just to make sure things were working alright and then out of nowhere

i have not downloaded lubuntu

where did this come from?? a live lubuntu image boots from this one external drive im using. but i didnt put lubuntu in that drive??

i used the dd command to make a backup image of arch linux. does that somehow make the drive boot lubuntu??? am i stupid? whats going on

[takes-of-dubious-temperature]

Microsoft burying the settings to disable advertisements baked into the operating system of Windows 11 into three separate hard to find options menus all while using vague & deceptive wording and forced system updates to Windows 11 should be the wake-up call for consumers to start figuring out how to install and use Linux distributions.

I can recommend:

Linux Mint – For a user experience most akin to Windows

Ubuntu – For overall user-friendliness (once you get used to the changes compared to Windows) and the broadest selection of easy-to-install apps

Lubuntu – For older hardware in need of reinvigoration

[crowsontheloose]

Leavin lesbian to try labubu bc it's more lightweight

[theplanz]

making my first foray into installing Linux! Putting lubuntu onto a usb because I’m bored. It’s been stuck at 8% for a while though, is this normal?

[silicon14blog]

Got Lubuntu running on my 2010 laptop, probably going to be more entertainment and media focused machine since it has a disc drive/tray I can play DVDs in while my primary windows laptop does not. Might use it for more technical usages but will see.

[q4os-tde-official]

my first experience with Linux was installing lubuntu on my NB200, not being happy with the performance, and then wiping the entire hard drive because i didnt realise that replacing literally every single bit on the drive with zeroes would make it unbootable

in hindsight that was incredibly dumb and like 5 seconds of googling would have probably told me that it was a bad idea, buuuuut thats what happens when you think you're too smart to have to RTFM

nowadays i google anything that im even slightly unsure about, just in case

[vergess]

I've seen a couple people talk about Linux. Is it worth it for someone who basically uses their laptop like an app machine? I play don't starve together, I have firefox, and I write, aaannnnnd that's about it. It slows down sometimes when I'm playing different games but I always thought that was what I get for not having the space, or the desk, for a desktop.

Oh, you are actually the ideal candidate.

If you primarily use your computer for web browsing, media consumption, office work and/or steam games, you are THE target audience for Linux desktop OSes.

The only people who I wouldn't recommend make the jump are people who do very specialized art, like 3D modelling and animation from scratch (blender works on linux but little else in that field), and people who do high end or competitive gaming without the use of steam.

I keep specifying steam, because the steam launcher has a bunch of whateverthefuck going on that makes it basically trivial to run steam supported games on linux. They even provide the setting for it inside the linux version of Steam, called "proton compatibilty layer." Which is very roughly versions of all the files that a game would normally be able to call from the windows OS, only with linux information in this. So there's very little impact on hardware performance.

There can even be improvements in performance because the actual operating system is so lightweight that there are more hardware resources available to the game.

Personally, I find that the thing that is the most improved in terms of response is actually Firefox. On Windows, launchingfirefox always took me upwards of 10 seconds. Once open, it worked like a dream, but for whatever reason Window shated actually opening the program for me.

On linux, it's instant. If there's a loading speed, it's too short for me to notice in the time it takes to move my eyes from the firefox option in the start menu, to the center of the screen where the window actually opens.

Plus, and this is something I LOVE for using linux as an "app machine," the linux software manager actually works. If you've ever use an app store on your phone, a software manager is basically the same function. You isntall programs from it, and then it updates and secures them automatically for you.

Compare that to windows, where most programs need to be downloaded as .exe files from the developer, then installed manually by you, then either you check for updates on the website manually or the program checks automatically whenever it opens, and then you have to download a whole other fucking exe file to run the update.

None of that bullshit.

You install it in the software manager and then any time your computer runs system updates, it will also update all the software.

Fucking magnificent. I live for that shit. In fact, it's such an integral feature and so much better from a use perspective that windows tried to re=create it with the windows store. Only their version sucks ass and has like no fucking useful programs. So then windows users tried to re-create it with a system called Chocolate Software Management For WIndows . And, credit where it is due, if a program has choco support it does work beautifully!

It's just that very few programs do.

Meanwhile, back on linux, they even introduced a feature called flatpacking that allows people who make programs to basically just.... pops it into the software store, so even weird shit like the specific game mod for FFXIV that I personally use has its own software manager entry.

Anyway, okay, TLDR:

You are literally, almost as if divinely crafted, the ideal kind of user for switching to Linux.

I like Linux Mint in XFCE, but many people swear that Ubuntu is the place to start. Which one I recommend to you would come down to whether you prefer the "feel" and "look" of older windows like XP and 7, or MacOS and newer Windows like 11. For the older style, do Mint. For the newer, try Ubuntu.

[techniktagebuch]

Mai 2021

That’s not how I remember it

Ich benutze schon seit mindestens 2007 immer mal wieder ubuntu-Derivate – meistens auf dem jeweiligen Zweitrechner. Denn zwar komme ich damit immer ganz gut klar, aber letztlich gibt es doch immer Aufgaben (PDF-Exporte …), vorhandene Peripherie (der Subwoofer …) oder einfach Spiele, die ich nicht mit einem für mich sinnvollen Verhältnis von Aufwand und Nutzen so zum Funktionieren kriege, wie sie gedacht sind. Seit Mitte der 10er läuft mein privater Hauptrechner mit Windows. Da die Zweit- (und Dritt-)rechner nicht sooo leistungsfähig sind, bleibe ich auf Lubuntu 14 bzw. 16 stehen.

2021 zeigt der Erstrechner Ausfallerscheinungen. Ich kann im Mai sehr günstig ein ähnlich leistungsfähiges Gerät erwerben und muss für den Alltag sofort ein lauffähiges Betriebssystem haben. Mehr aus Neugier beschließe ich, es erst einmal wieder mit Lubuntu zu probieren, long term support, inzwischen 20.04. Die Festplatte will ich so partitionieren, dass ich zur Not später noch ein Windows draufspielen kann.

Es stellt sich heraus, dass die Partitionierung der aufwändigste Teil der Prozedur ist. Ob ich das richtig gemacht habe, werde ich wahrscheinlich nie herausfinden.

Denn alles andere läuft plug&play. Bei Tastatur, Maus und Monitor wundert mich das noch nicht.

Aber das WLAN? Zunächst habe ich einen Stick gekauft, der entgegen der Angabe auf der Packung nur schlecht unterstützt wird. Den tausche ich gegen einen FRITZ!WLAN AC 860 um, reingesteckt, alles in zwei Sekunden da.

Anlage mit Subwoofer? Wird sofort erkannt.

Webcam, Mikrofon? Eingesteckt und kann in discord ausgewählt werden.

Drucker? Nicht einmal den Typ muss ich händisch auswählen, er wird sofort, automatisch und korrekt erkannt.

Dropbox wird wie von Windows gewohnt unterstützt. Das Firefox-Profil kann plattformunabhängig kopiert werden. Mein E-Mail-Archiv exportiere ich aus Outlook, was etwas dauert, und lese es mit readpst auf Knopfdruck in ein Postfach im Linux-Mailprogramm.

Ich habe nicht erwartet, dass ich meine Entscheidung bereuen würde. Aber ich habe auch nicht erwartet, dass alles *so* einfach und reibungslos wäre. Wo ist die Bastelei? Das Draufschaffen exotischer Konsolen-Kommandos? Das nächtelange Suchen in Foren? Für den Augenblick habe ich wirklich nicht die geringste Motivation, Windows noch zu installieren.

Einen Rechner mit Linux-Betriebssystem aufzusetzen und vor allem, mit allen Daten von Windows auf Linux umzuziehen, ohne einen einzigen Stein im Weg zu haben – that’s not how I remember it.

(Matthias Colloseus)