Using Linux in earnest, for productivity, over time. How's that panning out? Well, to wit, this be the long-term usage review and report 4 of the Slimbook Titan laptop, with Nvidia RTX 3070 graphics and Kubuntu 22.04 LTS as the operating system, including latest round of updates that led to occasional system freezes due to a kernel bug, inconsistent and confusing firmware update process, inconsistent distro upgrade messaging, everyday use, gaming, fun element, and more. Take a look. https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/slimbook-titan-report-4.html Cheers, Mrk
Isn't that because of phasing? [1] [2] Usually, Discover offers those phased updates in a few days. But I can understand that this may not be sufficient if one needs those updates right away. If Muon Package Manager shows a certain package as upgradable, but Discover doesn't yet offer the update, and I really want it, I use Muon to upgrade the package. Yes, quite annoying. I don't need to see that notification on every boot, until I decide to upgrade, in another three months or so. I disabled it via Discover \ Settings \ Software Sources \ Updates \ Release upgrade \ Show new distribution releases: Never.
@Mrkvonic As always your reviews and analysis is interesting even if some of the Linux command line stuff is beyond my levels of understanding. I concur with your passage 'Looking at this entire sequence of things, I hate UEFI, I hate Secure Boot, I hate these shims and blobs and firmware updates, and all this hectic busy nonsense, the idea that your box is a Hollywood-style battlefield, and there's always action. Nope. I want my box to come ready for use, and NEVER update its BIOS or firmware. That's how it should be. If it's stable and works, let it be. But no. Let's constantly change the state of the system, with minimal quality oversight, so that you have to deal with random hardware-related crap throughout the entire lifecycle of this machine, or the end user, whoever goes to the the big Silicon Pastures first.' My main experience with an installed operating system recently has been with Linux Mint, which I am generally happy with except for the points that you mention. In an operating system, I want to be able to securely and consistently go back to it as a working tool each time with a working incorruptible template and not be constantly assaulted by 'unknowns'. Although I have Linux Mint installed on many of my laptops, the 'updates' are tiring (I feel danger :O ) and I keep one pc with XP installed, setup and configured to meet my requirements but most of my computer life is spent running a Linux operating system from DVD which I feel is the best computer experience that I've ever had in terms of 'peace of mind' and consistent reassurance of usability. The 'Linux Geek development syndrome' and arcane structure and requirements for usage has, for most of it's years prevented me and I guess, many people from transitioning to Linux from an increasingly 'aggressive, intrusive and demanding' 'doze'. I have been a curious admirer (from the outside) of Linux for decades and eventually, as the more modern Linux systems have became accessible to a 'newbie', took tentative steps to explore and see if I could use it as a 'daily' at least on a superficial Graphical User Interface level being apprehensive about the level of education and work to easily use the command prompt. I don't want to have to learn an arcane language to do everyday things. I sometimes feel that 'compulsive obsessive' 'hobbyist' developers or team members endanger the Linux world in terms of general acceptance but on the other hand I do not want to discourage exploration of possibility. I don't, however, want to be used as a 'Guinea Pig'. I wish that operating systems had an incorruptible 'slot in' module and that user data including selected programs could be kept in a stable repository away from the vagary of update compulsion. Of course, I image and clone, for safety of my data and operating system, but stability, consistency and ease of use, without worry, is my 'ideal'.
@sdmod, yes, unfortunately, that's how it is - the "world" wants "action" - but the end user just wants peace, to be left alone. Mr.X, it's Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, in that order, so if your system has it, it will show Verdana, then if not Arial, etc. Mrk
Last September, I wrote, Today I installed Kubuntu 24.04 (fresh install but kept /home). I noticed that Muon Package Manager is no longer available in Kubuntu 24.04. Pity! I installed Synaptic instead. Discover is fine, but for some things a package manager like Synaptic is convenient. In addition, I noticed that there is no longer an entry for "Software Sources" in Discover, in Kubuntu 24.04. System Settings/ Hardware/ Driver Manager is the way to get to the option to select Additional Drivers, and it is the way to get to the other "Software Sources" tabs as well. I think that may have been mentioned in one of the Dedoimedo articles. Of course, the above is off-topic in this thread that is about Kubuntu 22.04. It was because of my suggestion to use Muon, that I thought a follow-up was welcome.
