#xubuntu

[boredkaiju]

>Want to download a program >Windows version: "Click here to install!" >Mac version: "Click here to install!" >Scroll down to Linux version >"Here's a Github repository link!" Look all I'm saying is there is a reason Linux has struggled to become mainstream. I've given up on multiple native Linux versions of softwares and just got the windows version running through Wine now, lol. Shoutout to Krita for being easier than some of the other softwares I tried to get but also I'm pretty sure I still did something wrong because the icon isn't supposed to look like that and I can't lock it to my taksbar but it works so I'm just gonna not worry about it.

In spite of the annoyances I've encountered trying to adjust to Linux, I'm still loving it compared to Windows. The only sacrifice I regret is that my sick 3D dinosaur screensaver I paid $10 for a couple years ago won't run, even through Wine. :(

[volkswagenitalias]

Can’t say enough how happy I am that I switched back to Linux. Truly there is nothing better than my desktop just being **quiet**. Nothing pinging at me, Not a bunch of stuff in my tray crying for attention, no windows notifs annoying me, just blissful quiet. If I leave my desktop on for 9 hours, I will not get a single notification pop up, just how I like it.

There’s also just the usual performance bump. I have a Thinkpad T490, not super old by any means, but half of the time it would CHUG doing simple tasks on my (very lean, mind you) windows install. Sometimes I open system monitor and marvel at how few processes are going on and I get very happy.

I also finally figured out WINE, so I can use some of the apps and games I really liked from windows (roblox haha).

I’m far from a computer expert and I’m still a novice at using the terminal, but Linux has made computing fun for me again and I wish more people could have this experience.

[electronicintrovert]

Ditching my old NVidia GPU for a new AMD one is probably the biggest quality of life improvement I've made using Linux. I've been using Linux on the desktop for years and across several generations of hardware.

I avoided Fedora and Gnome in the past because of Wayland. My gaming needs are not extraordinary, to the point that I bought RDR2 just to see what modern hardware is capable of when I finally upgraded, still running XUbuntu.

When my SSD died, I installed Fedora on a spare since it was the fastest to download. I fully expected that I'd end up at least ditching Wayland for a bit to finish RDR2, given my lack of desire to troubleshoot.

It didn't happen. Nothing happened. I never had to do anything other than wait for it to download again. Everything just worked.

Compatible hardware should be considered the "cost" of Linux. It would surely eliminate many headaches.

[honysoytquimalpence]

[uw-yocida]

wubiでxubuntu22.04をインストールした時のメモ

めったやたらと長い文章になりそうです。ご注意ください。

うちのノートPCで普段使っているのはxubuntu18.04LTSなのですが、AndroidタブレットやスマホにTermuxを使ってUbuntu20.04などをインスールしているうちに、世間ではUbuntu22.04LTSがすでに出ている時に、ノートPCがXubuntu18.04のままなのはいかがなものか…と思い始め、wubiというWindows上でubuntuなどをインストールする方法を使って、ノートPCにXubuntu22.04LTSをインストールしてみた時のメモ。

・まずwubiの実行でつまづきかける。 wubiは自動的に、インストールに必要なxubuntuのISOイメージをネットからダウンロードしてくれる…ハズなんだけど、まずISOイメージのダウンロードに失敗してエラーが発生する。 まぁ、そこはxubuntuの公式サイトから自分でISOイメージをダウンロードして、wubiと同じフォルダの中に突っ込めばOK。

・xubuntuのインストール時にエラーが発生して先に進まない。 wubiを使っていると途中でWindowsを再起動するように指示されるので、それに従って再起動するとxubuntuのインストール画面が起動する。そこで標準インストールか、最小構成のインストールか、などを選ぶと自動でxubuntuのインストールが始まるのだけれど、何度やってもChormiumのダウンロードで失敗。ダウンロード先が見つからない？みたいなエラーメッセージが出てxubuntuのインストールが中断し、システムの再起動が行われるのだけれど、コンソール画面に延々とエラーメッセージが流れていくだけで、再起動もしなくなる。 強制的に電源を落として再起動するとWindowsが起動するので、wubiを再び起動すると、インストールが中途半端で終わっているため、xubuntuを一旦アンインストールしてからの再インストールになる。 そのうち、xubuntuをインストールする際にネットに繋がっていると、Chromiumをインストールしようとするみたいなので、何度か失敗を繰り返した末に、ネットに繋げないでxubuntuのインストールを実行することで、どうにかこうにかインストールに成功。

・このままだと再起動するとWindowsで立ち上がってしまうので… BIOS画面を起動して、UEFIのboot設定をWindowsで起動から、Xubuntuで起動に変更する。これでノートPCを起動するとWindowsではなく、xubuntuのgrub2というブートローダーがまず起動して、xubuntuで起動するか、Windowsで起動するかが選べるようになり、真のデュアルブート環境が出来上がる。

・上手くいったと思った��だけど、ちょっと変。 ただ、xubuntuで起動してみると、まずgrub2の起動OSを選択する画面が出るのだけれど、そこでxubuntuを選択すると、英語と日本語が混じった device name is alredy exist 実行を続けるには何かキーを押してください... 的なメッセージが出るようになってしまい、ここで適当にキーを押すとxubuntuは普通に起動するんだけれど、変なワンクッションが入るようになってしまった。なんか気持ち悪いの��解決方法はないものかしら。

・Firefoxがsnapパッケージとかいうのでインストールされている。 最初からインストールされていたFirefoxのバージョンを確認すると若干古くて、これまで使っていた設定ファイル類をバックアップから丸ごと移植して手を抜こうと思ったら、設定ファイルのバージョンが新しいので、現在のFirefoxでは読み込めません的なメッセージが出てしまう。 で、設定ファイルを移植しようとした際に、これまでと設定ファイルの保存場所が違うなぁ、とは思っていたんだけれど、Firefoxはsnapパッケージとかいうので管理する方法に変わったらしく、aptコマンドでは最新版がインストールできず、sudo snap refresh firefox みたいなコマンドでアップグレードできるらしい。面倒くさ。 ともかく、これでFirefoxを最新版に更新したら、設定ファイルの移植も無事成功しました。

・rbenvでrubyをインストールするのにつまづく。 結論から先に書くと、rubyをインストールするには事前にaptコマンドで、 sudo apt install -y libssl-dev libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev とかやって必要なライブラリをインストールするように…と書かれているんだけれど、この他に、 sudo apt install -y libyaml-dev libffi-dev とかも最近のrubyでは事前にインストールする必要があるらしい。 うちでは最初、libffi-devをインストールしないでrubyをインストールしてしまったのか、rubyのスクリプトを実行しようとすると、ffidleが見つからない！的なエラーが出て実行できず途方に暮れつつ、Webページの翻訳をしてくれるFirefoxの拡張機能の力を借りながら海外のサイトを見てみたら、 libffi-dev をインストールしてからrubyをインストールし直してみ！とか書いてあったので、 libffi-devのインストールを確認した後に、 rbenv install 3.2.2 -f とかやって、すでにインストール済みのrubyを強制的に上書きインストールしてみたら解決しました。

まだ余計なものをあまりインストールしていないせいもあるんでしょうが、xubuntu22.04LTSは動作が軽くて良い感じ。 これからちょこちょこと以前の環境に近づけるため、色々とインストールしてはバックアップから設定ファイルの移植などをしなければなりませんが、長くなってきたので今日のところはこのくらいで許してやらぁ！な感じ。

[bigtidtybitch]

me chrooting into my busted ass hard drive because sddm broke everything (i just want bluetooth to work)

Fucking Ubuntu 24.10 everything is FUCKING BROKEN

[phantomtrax]

I am losing my mind why is there a linux compatibility issue with library of ruina where the only difference is spaces don't show up. The game literally runs smoother than on windows but the text looks like this?????? No other issues?????? What in the everloving fuck could possibly cause this

[boredkaiju]

can't get Davinci Resolve running on Linux at all. Guess I have to try ShotCut now. Not necessarily a "deal breaker" but it's the first genuinely frustrating problem I've run into so far because I really like Davinci. After using Shotcut for a total of 5 minutes I can confidently say it seems pretty okay.

[wishfuldeity]

omfg it works the windows vm works

i havent benchmarked it yet but holy shit

FIRST TRY BABYYYYY

[protoctist]

i think we should use this opportunity (discord ui change) to, as a society, get really into IRC again

[abbiistabbii]

I don't think people realize how absolutely wild Linux is.

Here we have an Operating system that now has 100 different varieties, all of them with their own little features and markets that are also so customizable that you can literally choose what desktop environment you want. Alongside that it is the OS of choice for Supercomputers, most Web servers, and even tiny little toy computers that hackers and gadget makers use. It is the Operating System running on most of the world's smartphones. That's right. Android is a version of Linux.

It can run on literally anything up to and including a potato, and as of now desktop Linux Distros like Ubuntu and Mint are so easily to use and user friendly that technological novices can use them. This Operating system has had App stores since the 90s.

Oh, and what's more, this operating system was fuckin' built by volunteers and users alongside businesses and universities because they needed an all purpose operating system so they built one themselves and released it for free. If you know how to, you can add to this.

Oh, and it's founder wasn't some corporate hotshot. It's an introverted Swedish-speaking Finn who, while he was a student, started making his own Operating system after playing around with someone else's OS. He was going to call it Freax but the guy he got server space from named the folder of his project "Linux" (Linus Unix) and the name stuck. He operates this project from his Home office which is painted in a colour used in asylums. Man's so fucking introverted he developed the world's biggest code repo, Git, so he didn't have to deal with drama and email.

Steam adopted it meaning a LOT of games now natively run in Linux and what cannot be run natively can be adapted to run. It's now the OS used on their consoles (Steam Deck) and to this, a lot of people have found games run better on Linux than on Windows. More computers run Steam on Linux than MacOS.

On top of that the Arctic World Archive (basically the Svalbard Seed bank, but for Data) have this OS saved in their databanks so if the world ends the survivors are going to be using it.

On top of this? It's Free! No "Freemium" bullshit, no "pay to unlock" shit, no licenses, no tracking or data harvesting. If you have an old laptop that still works and a 16GB USB drive, you can go get it and install it and have a functioning computer because it uses less fucking resources than Windows. Got a shit PC? Linux Mint XFCE or Xubuntu is lightweight af. This shit is stopping eWaste.

What's more, it doesn't even scrimp on style. KDE, XFCE, Gnome, Cinnamon, all look pretty and are functional and there's even a load of people who try make their installs look pretty AF as a hobby called "ricing" with a subreddit (/r/unixporn) dedicated to it.

Linux is fucking wild.

[never-obsolete]

splash animation from Xubuntu 6.06

[eggrens]

i think people should try a little Linux, just for something different yknow

doesn’t have to be any specific “beginner-friendly” distro or whatever, could just be WSL even . just gives you a different perspective on OSs :)

like if you’re sick of Windows/MacOS and are frustrated that you need to keep upgrading your hardware to run the newest versions, why not experience something else and download VirtualBox n try out a Linux distro for a bit, see if you like it,, I think you might be surprised by some of em :)

i still use Windows 10 for my desktop, mainly for gaming and art etc, but i switched over to Linux Mint on my laptop a while ago and have used it for school, and it’s been running better than when it had Windows on it. does what i need it to do, and using the terminal to do stuff feels fun and kinda powerful with how easy it is to install stuff with it :)

was there troubleshooting involved? yes, but it was often fixed by just looking up your problem and finding answers on stackexchange or linux forums, not too different from troubleshooting windows tbh lol

i’ve also recently got a mini pc to use as a little server for stuff, like discord bots. even tho the specs are a little on the lower side, it’s still able to run stuff pretty well since I installed Xubuntu on it, which is specifically designed to be quite light on system resources, and it’s been great too :)

anyways point is,, try out Linux in some form, why not :) if you have an old laptop/desktop sitting around, try reviving it by installing a lightweight linux distro on it! the less e-waste the better :3

[uwubuntu-official]

If you're Ubuntu, does that make kubuntu, xubuntu, etc your headmates? Are they related to you but different people? What is the lore on this.

The lore is that I fucked your dad.