Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes

On 2025-01-09, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 08:53:30 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
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At one point I used Mandrake (I think it was Mandrake, maybe Mandrake's
predecessor (?), can't remember).

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There wasn't a predecessor. It was originally based on Red Hat but moved
away. It must have been 25 years ago but I remember it as a smooth
installation on an old Compaq.

You're right. I guess I confused myself by thinking about what happened
_after_ Mandrake and Conectiva merged into Mandriva... and then went belly
up resulting in Mageia and, later, OpenMandriva. But it was definitely
Mandrake that I installed.

Speaking of smooth I upgraded to Ubuntu 24.04 last night. It's not a
problem for me but it's still the 6.8.0 kernel. The Fedora box is up to
6.12.8.
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It wasn't particularly smooth. I had to manually kill and purge postgres
before it would continue, then it failed on Thunderbird when trying to
move to a snap. I was able to install it manually afterwards.
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The strangest part was the cleanup where it spent 25 minutes 'searching
for obsolete software'. I have no idea what part of darkest Africa it was
searching.

My problem with Ubuntu (besides not liking the desktop) is use of Snaps. I
like to customize Firefox a little and it's easy with a userChrome.css file
in the chrome directory of your profile directory. But I couldn't figure out
where to do this on a Snap package. I figured out FlatPaks okay, but Snaps
seem to be a whole different creature. And I don't like Snaps showing up as
"partitions" when I do a "df -h" command.

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