Just for testing purposes, have you removed every device except the root device and sys/dev/tmp from fstab? I know Linux can get a bit upset when a NTFS filesysyem is marked as needing chkdsk’d and might be blocking other disks from mounting.

There was an old Flash game called Pandemic 2. Iirc, there wasn’t a Pandemic 1, which struck me as odd.

I’m annoyed at modern Gnome’s hostility towards user customisability. Their refusal to support server side decorations has trickled down to Cinnamon’s Wayland compositor and it looks like it’s going to be a barrier in Wayland Cinnamon.

The latest version of NTP is 15 years old, and implementations are expected to be compliant. There is no risk of embrace/extend/extinguish from licensing here.

Open standards are better than copy-left licenses, IMO.

If you’re worried about Steam, you can always use the flatpak version of Steam. It runs it in a sandbox, so it doesn’t have complete access to all your files, although it can still do a bit of telemetry (which is unavoidable really, as you need to download files from Steam’s servers).

Cinnamon does everything I need it to and I’ve got it customised to the way I like it so I’ve not felt a need to switch. MATE’s status as a fork of an old version of Gnome (at least at the time I was looking) worries me a bit as well because the legacy codebase may get left behind.

They need to actually be really careful with that - Gamepass is I think one of the main things keeping gamers on Windows. Fuck up gamepass during the Gabecube’s release and people may start seriously wondering why they put up with Windows.

Cinnamon. Desktop UI peaked in the Gnome 2/Windows XP era and anything after that is bloat for the sake of bloat.

Might try kde plasma though, if I can make it behave the same.

First we had “this meeting could have been an email”, now we have “this blog post could have been a tweet/skeet/toot”.

Most of this article is bashing an imagined strawman and the main meat of the issue is two papercuts.

VLC’s shareholders must be pleased though. /s

That last paragraph is why maintainers step down from projects. Recieving vitrol like that for something they do in their free time is not healthy. And then we’ll have no vlc whatsoever, good or bad interface.

If you are that bothered by it, pin it, fork it or patch it.

Most actual Linux code changes come from large companies implementing or improving drivers for their own hardware.

The Linux foundation mostly manages the Linux “brand”. That is, all the logistics and infrastructure required to run a huge project with many stakeholders.

I thought we weren’t supposed to be using Mint anyways because it uses Systemd? /s

Emacs.

With all the vimmery going around nowadays though, I feel like I’m on the losing team. ;_;

Looks like a scam to me. It can do all these tests to find security issues, but instead of telling you how to fix things (or do it itself) it has you input it to an AI?

Yeah, GNU IMP. Recognisable and easy to understand for those familiar with the old name.

WLBR just seems like people being clever for clevers sake.

Especially with the newer ROCm 7.2.x releases improving hardware support and other improvements. Especially with the rate of improvements to ROCm recently, it’s unfortunate to see ROCm 7.1 shipped in the Ubuntu 26.04 archive.

Improvements!

But yeah, 3 months out of date for software that isn’t security critical is fine. Probably just hit the feature freeze at a bad time. It still presumably works well enough for most people.

I’d like to suggest Linux Mint: It allows you to use guides and software written for Ubuntu but disables all the scummy stuff.

24.04 to 26.04 is a big version jump and sadly they can’t check every combination of hardware and software. Some people don’t go through the upgrade process and just back up their user data and reinstall when they want to upgrade to a new major release. In my experience, the automatic upgrader is usually fine but occasionally requires me to tweak something on my system.

Missing Nvidia drivers

Ubuntu has a “driver manager” software in the settings which should allow you to install recommended drivers.

Python not compatible with software like Proton VPN

What version are you using and how did you install it? You might be using an older version of their app and the issues are fixed in the latest versions. If you really can’t get their app to work, you can go to https://account.protonvpn.com/downloads#openvpn-configuration-files and download an OpenVPN file which you can import in your network settings. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles as their app, but it still allows you to VPN your traffic.

My pc is not welcome in the new Ubuntu world :’(

I mean, isn’t Windows notorious for breaking things after an update as well? :P Computers in general are brittle and don’t handle change well.

NixOS would beg to differ. :P