One, why not. Two, I like to test old software compatibility. It's a good indicator of the stability and maturity of a software ecosystem. Old software isn't useless. Might not be suitable for all use cases and scenarios. If you're asking, should one use TrueCrypt to protect oneself from hax0rs, then the answer is: maybe. If you ask, what about casual protection of data on the go, the answer is: sure why not. Mrk
@Mrkvonic I would just like to thank you for your interesting and informative reviews. I like that they are very readable and include graphics so that an ordinary person, like myself, can get a lot from them. I've enjoyed your reviews on the new laptop and your perspective which is very human in it's 'feel'. I'm not conversant with most of the Linux things, I'm just a 'dabbler', but as a person that would like to completely lose 'dows altogether, I'm always looking for an operating system that is easily installed and is stable enough so that 'the idiot' can't break it. After a year or so of using (and loving) Mint , I eventually (on one of the 'upgrades') broke it in a big way, messed up my time backups and as a 'newbie' threw me into grub 'rescue' nightmare, I couldn't re-install it on the machine and now am mainly running Tails 'live' from a USB 2.0 stick on a Lenovo (I think it's a B50) laptop which gives me an enormous amount of satisfaction and pleasure as I can do most of the things that I want. I'm not a gamer and don't have big requirements, so I'm quite happy.
Slimbook Titan, Kubuntu, RGB backlight keyboard LED-powered keyboards give you moar FPS. Fact. Now, on a more serious note, here's a short article showing how to configure keyboard backlight options on the Slimbook Titan laptop running Kubuntu 22.04 LTS, covering BIOS features and buggy default implementation, Slimbook RGB Keyboard utility, PPA and manual configuration, pattern, hue and brightness tweaking, and such. Enjoy. https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/slimbook-titan-keyboard.html Cheers, Mrk
Thanks to the Kubuntu experimental PPA, 22.04 LTS is now running 5.27.3, the latest KDE point bugfix!
Slimbook Titan, Kubuntu, backup, encryption My going-all-Linux adventure continues. Next, we have this wee tutorial showing how to configure data backup with two encrypted hard disks in Linux, using my Slimbook Titan laptop as a usecase, covering storage consideration, LUKS encryption, crypttab file, auto-mounting via fstab, boot problems and live session troubleshooting, rsync data replication with exclusions, cron scheduling, brief look at various tools and utilities, other observations, and more. Have fun, and maybe your bytes be safe. https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/slimbook-titan-backups.html Cheers, Mrk
Slimbook Titan, Kubuntu, impressions a month later Welcome to my Linux laptop adventures. Here's a follow-up review of the Slimbook Titan laptop, with 8-core, 16-thread Ryzen 9 5900HX processor, Nvidia RTX 3070 graphics, and two M.2 NVMe drives, running Kubuntu 22.04 LTS, focusing on hardware and software behavior after one month of use, including keyboard and screen ergonomics, fan noise, heat factor, battery life, Fn keys functionality, power management, Bluetooth, Samba speed, some niggles and small problems with remote share file locking, Dolphin by-date grouping, font in GwenView, and more. Have fun. https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/slimbook-titan-month.html Cheers, Mrk
I’m sort of confused as to their development strategy. I was really impressed with the first release but the notice for 202302231702 stated they were using KDE packages from KDE Neon which put me off since it seemed like an extra stability risk over using just the Ubuntu LTS packages. That said I ran a live version of the latest 20230417 and the repos point only to ‘Jammy’. As I said, confused.
As mentioned, last March, I enabled Ubuntu Pro to take advantage of Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM). I've seen a few ESM updates: for ImageMagick (dependency of Shutter), for FFmpeg, libexo, and also the 20 June 2023 USN-6180-1 fixes for VLC media player security issues. It's good to get those patches, but I think it's rather worrisome that even on Kubuntu 22.04 LTS one needs to have Ubuntu Pro enabled to get ESM security patches for VLC media player.
Neon is not compatible with Kubuntu! You need to add the Kubuntu Backports, Kubuntu Backports-Extra and Kubuntu Experimental PPAs to safely upgrade to 5.27.5 on Kubuntu 22.04 LTS.
