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Fortunately, this doesn't affect my main machines - but on oldie I pieced together several years ago.
It's "The Craiger" - a box I *mostly* put together with Craig's list parts. It's an olddie... a Rampage motherboard sporting 8 gigs of RAM and a Q9500 quad core CPU. An SSD makes it speedy and an Nvidia GTX660 makes it almost game worthy... for older games. It was running Xubuntu 20.04 - updated from 18.04 and I wanted to update it to 22.04.
I ran the update and everything seemed to go okay. The upgrade seemed to take so I loaded up Firefox to get some added goodies off the web... and the program failed to start. Okay, install Chromium. That failed to start. Then I get a warning that my APT/SNAP database was corrupted.
WTF?
A reboot later... and it completely hung on booting. Did SNAP packages bork my system?
Okay, let's start with a fresh install - but let's try Linux Mint Debian Edition. I take my USB stick with a fresh copy of LMBE 5 ... and the motherboard is too old to boot from a USB.
Darn, I forgot about that. But hey! I'm totally Old School and burn a DVD. Cool. It installs okay although Firefox did lock up the system when installing Duckduckgo security add-on. A reboot fixed that. And...
No Nvidia driver? Oh, darn. They're going to start allowing that in the *next* edition of Debian. I could fiddle with config files... nah... that's why I switched to Ubuntu... you want non-free drivers? Ubuntu asks you if you want to install them... and it does! Debian... eh, no.
Don't get me wrong - I loved Debian. Stable, reliable. I just got tired of having to fiddle with config files and newer hardware not being seen.
Hey! I was going to make this a spare Ubuntu Studio machine! And I've got a DVD already burned! Boot the DVD and .... SNAP deamon failed? CUPS daemon failed?
WTF?
Doing a little digging in the Ubuntu forums and it looks like they're doing away with DVD booting. It might still work... but it may take a few times. Well that sucks. Yeah, I get it... USB boot to install is faster and DVD drives are getting old. Still... that sucks.
So... I've burned a DVD of the latest version of Linux Mint Cinnamon. I've been contemplating jumping to Mint because Ubuntu has gone all in with Gnome 3 (which I hate) and SNAPS (which are slow) so this will give me another chance to kick Mint around a bit. It's too late to try it tonight so we'll see what happens tomorrow.
It's "The Craiger" - a box I *mostly* put together with Craig's list parts. It's an olddie... a Rampage motherboard sporting 8 gigs of RAM and a Q9500 quad core CPU. An SSD makes it speedy and an Nvidia GTX660 makes it almost game worthy... for older games. It was running Xubuntu 20.04 - updated from 18.04 and I wanted to update it to 22.04.
I ran the update and everything seemed to go okay. The upgrade seemed to take so I loaded up Firefox to get some added goodies off the web... and the program failed to start. Okay, install Chromium. That failed to start. Then I get a warning that my APT/SNAP database was corrupted.
WTF?
A reboot later... and it completely hung on booting. Did SNAP packages bork my system?
Okay, let's start with a fresh install - but let's try Linux Mint Debian Edition. I take my USB stick with a fresh copy of LMBE 5 ... and the motherboard is too old to boot from a USB.
Darn, I forgot about that. But hey! I'm totally Old School and burn a DVD. Cool. It installs okay although Firefox did lock up the system when installing Duckduckgo security add-on. A reboot fixed that. And...
No Nvidia driver? Oh, darn. They're going to start allowing that in the *next* edition of Debian. I could fiddle with config files... nah... that's why I switched to Ubuntu... you want non-free drivers? Ubuntu asks you if you want to install them... and it does! Debian... eh, no.
Don't get me wrong - I loved Debian. Stable, reliable. I just got tired of having to fiddle with config files and newer hardware not being seen.
Hey! I was going to make this a spare Ubuntu Studio machine! And I've got a DVD already burned! Boot the DVD and .... SNAP deamon failed? CUPS daemon failed?
WTF?
Doing a little digging in the Ubuntu forums and it looks like they're doing away with DVD booting. It might still work... but it may take a few times. Well that sucks. Yeah, I get it... USB boot to install is faster and DVD drives are getting old. Still... that sucks.
So... I've burned a DVD of the latest version of Linux Mint Cinnamon. I've been contemplating jumping to Mint because Ubuntu has gone all in with Gnome 3 (which I hate) and SNAPS (which are slow) so this will give me another chance to kick Mint around a bit. It's too late to try it tonight so we'll see what happens tomorrow.
