I predict everyone will be busy rewriting everything in Gtk10 and Qt12… apart from that, nothing happened except wasting time rewriting software everytime someone decide to deprecate a library everyone depends on.
Active directory and it’s integration with services such as DNS and DHCP is pretty great though. I wish Microsoft started focusing less on cloud and improved the user (or rather admin) experience of their server tools, they are quite awful is some cases.
AD is the easiest in Windows. We can argue about DNS, but DHCP? You can’t even change the subnet size after the fact without destroying and remaking the scope.
And sometimes they make a new tool that’s better, kinda. And then they never bother updating it to make it good. Looking at you AD admin center.
GPedit is the most annoying tool ever. Why the hell can’t I just edit GPO settings values from the active settings menu, without having to open the entire GPO and navigate the huge mess of settings.
It doesn’t seem like normal behaviour, I don’t think it is anything wrong with Ubuntu though. It is a fine distro all in all. If I get into problems when installing something it is often because I haven’t found the “official” install method for that specific package. For Ubuntu that’s normally an apt package or a snap. I find snaps a little harder to get to grips with since they are sandboxed and a bit more unfamiliar for a middle aged man as myself. But keep from googling for “how to install xyz” and always start from the official app store/apt install If you still get errors, do a fresh OS install and try again just to check if something went wrong during the setup
This is good advice. I did try to follow the “official” install for this one. When I Google “how to install” all the instructions are different and like 5 years old so they are outdated.
I guess I don’t see it as a circle jerk. It seems more that there are a bunch of windows fans that haven’t tried Linux in the last 5 or 10 years (or ever) trying to convince the Linux community that Linux has a bunch of pitfalls and shortcomings that we don’t seem to run into.
A couple months I came across a cheap convertible that I bought to tinker with and try out Linux with touch interfaces. The bottom line is that it’s very lacking. Gnome and KDE have some stuff for touch interfaces to make it kinda work but it’s definitely not suitable if you wanna use the touch stuff as your main navigation mechanic. I see a lot of people recommending Gnome in this thread and each time a similar questions come up, which I simply cannot agree with. Nautilus doesn’t even offer a way to right click. KDE’s on-screen keyboard is kinda spotty when it comes up. All in all it’s still pretty rough without mouse and keyboard. If you want to go full tablet mode you’ll be light years away from the experience Android can give you. Personally I settled for fydeOS, which is a ChromeOS fork.
A couple months I came across a cheap convertible that I bought to tinker with and try out Linux with touch interfaces. The bottom line is that it’s very lacking. Gnome and KDE have some stuff for touch interfaces to make it kinda work but it’s definitely not suitable if you wanna use the touch stuff as your main navigation mechanic. I see a lot of people recommending Gnome in this thread and each time a similar questions come up, which I simply cannot agree with. Nautilus doesn’t even offer a way to right click. KDE’s on-screen keyboard is kinda spotty when it comes up. All in all it’s still pretty rough without mouse and keyboard. If you want to go full tablet mode you’ll be light years away from the experience Android can give you. Personally I settled for fydeOS, which is a ChromeOS fork.
Just the other day I was posting complaining about a thing I was trying to do that should have been simple but Linux made really hard for some reason. Still prefer it to Windows tbh.
Oh, that’s why I moved from W10. My audio card refused to work with this OS. The solution: go back to W8.1 which I just skipped as hell. I could never get rid of that problem in W10, BSOD as soon as it rebooted into W10. No matter what I tried, couldn’t debug the problem. Fuck it, Linux may be complicated, but at least you end up knowing what’s going on. I can’t go back to not knowing.
It’s been a lot of years that we’ve been able to run an OS without installing it. Some are even intended to be run that way. There’s literally no reason at all to be “hesitant” about firing up a live environment from usb to find out how it runs.
For now, it’s Debian 12 with KDE Plasma. But I’m really interested in Immutable Systems. I like OpenSuse Kapla, but the KDE Integration is still in alpha. There are still a few shortcomings with the only flatpak approach, like the fact that the Steam Flatpak can’t provide smooth wireless controller support because of lacking permissions.
I’ve found success installing Steam and other stuff using distrobox on openSUSE Kalpa. The initial setup isn’t as easy as installing a flatpak, but after a quick distrobox-export it’s totally seamless.
I actually have an older HP envy x360 (AMD chipset). Works like a charm with linux (everything out of the box). The touchscreen is fully functional, but I don’t really use it. I don’t dig that at all 😅
One thing that bothers me is that it is impissible to update the BIOS firmware without at least a Windows VM.
I have an HP Envy and it has honestly been a dream with any distro I throw at it. I find KDE to have better touch gesture support than Gnome, but I have been running Gnome for a while now and it hasn’t bothered me at all.
The last time I actually tried anything with Redhat I was trying to build a file server with RHEL v6.8 on a circa 2014 Dell. Absolutely zero support for the drive controllers. It felt like installing Linux in the mid-1990’s. I gave up in frustration after two days and gave Ubuntu 16.04 LTS a try. As far as I know, that server’s still chugging away with 98 terabytes of storage at that office.
It’s correct. I put it in greater than/less than brackets up above to indicate that it was a placeholder and Lemmy stripped it out for some reason. I have edited above to just say “user”. Good eye though.
My file looks like that except for the domain value. I don’t have that line. What would go there? It’s a network drive connected directly to my router with a USB cable and then the router SMB client and mapping is configured. I know that’s correct because I can map them in Windows, and I can list them in Pop in the terminal, as well as browse it in Pop in the file explorer. Alternatively I started out just using the user/password arguments for the terminal mounting command and only moved it to the file to get rid of those arguments since the error it’s throwing is saying there are invalid arguments. I have the workgroup set in the config file and I’m explicitly declaring the IP in the mount command. There’s no domain name, unless that means something I’m unaware of.
The workgroup is set in the cfg file. I got a little further now. Since moving the credentials to the file I am getting a different error. Now I get mount error(115): Operation now in progress which is some sort of connection error. I was actually just logging verbose right before I checked back here and it just spits out the options from the config file and the error message. Still trying to figure this new error out since both the computer and the drive are on the same network, and within the same range.
OK, you may want to check dmesg or journalctl if there are further errors from the kernel - there is also a -v argument for mount, eg mount -t cifs -v //SERVER/$share /mnt --verbose -o… that might help.
Also (brain dumping) if you’ve successfully mounted it via the file browser, do so again and then check mount to see what arguments/options the CIFS mount is using - it might yield some important differences.
Thanks! That last option is something I thought of too, but I didn’t know what to do to get that information. I tried properties in the file explorer, but that didn’t work. Do I just type mount into the terminal to get a list of mounts? I’ll definitely try all of this after work. For now I’m exhausted from staying up until 1:30 am trying to get this figured out.
Sorry, I was thinking file browser mounts would appear in mount, but they don’t.
You should be able to list file browser mounts in a terminal using gio mount -li after mounting via the file browser, and it will list the SMB mount it’s using, ie smb://SERVER/$share/
This annoyingly doesn’t give us the username or domain for the SMB share, and to get that if the server and share looks OK we have to run gvfs (what the file browser for PopOS uses in the background) in debug mode and re-mount the SMB share; in a terminal run pkill gvfs; pkill nautilus; LANG=C GVFS_DEBUG=1 $(find /usr/lib* -name gvfsd 2>/dev/null) --replace 2>&1 ; this will unmount anything in the file browser but will show what username and domain the file browser is using to access the SMB share, for example after clicking on a share in the file browser, among other logs, I get;
This should give the username and domain that connects and can be used in the credential file.
Once this is done, you can exit the terminal with gvfs running and you should be able to close and re-open the file browser and the mounts should just re-appear normally.
Hopefully this will give enough information as to why the file browser mount works and the mount command doesn’t.
I think the default domain is empty or WORKGROUP. It would be used if you had active directoy for the user authentication.
I read some more of the man page and this should be optional.
Zorin is great! but, if gaming is really important i’d recommend dual booting so you can switch back and forth. eventually you will just let your windows os collect dust
Yea I have a 2011v3 haswell e proc that isnt supported but the mobo has a tpm slot so I got a 7 dollar tpm2.0 module on ebay and was able to install win11 last year. Its fine for basic gaming.
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