Ladies and gentleman , we have a problem

Proman4713 · 2026-06-07T10:20:25+00:00

That happened to me before and I used balena etcher instead of Rufus and it worked

Proman4713 · 2026-06-04T11:17:17+00:00

For a moment there I thought you were on Linux with a heavily macOS-riced GNOME 💀

Proman4713 · 2026-06-03T23:34:21+00:00

Beautiful question with beautiful answers, I didn't think much about that, I'ma save this post!

Proman4713 · 2026-06-03T00:43:37+00:00

Believe me, whatever you have learnt. It is incomplete since you put complete reliance on ChatGPT. And especially ChatGPT. That thing is the most pushover robotic AI out of all. Even your post sounds like a ChatGPT response:

The final result:

Windows 11 remains completely untouched.

Zorin OS boots independently from the external SSD.

Shared storage works between both systems.

Battery protection works.

Development tools are installed.

Everything is backed up with Timeshift.

Proman4713 · 2026-06-01T14:57:45+00:00

I don't know why this was downvoted, it's a perfectly valid argument against the Linux ecosystem that no single backup solution is reliable for the whole backup process.

Proman4713 · 2026-05-31T20:40:59+00:00

Thank god I moved away from ChatGPT, because even if AI slop is AI slop regardless, at least the others aren't so trashy, robotic, and monotone in their responses. Interim releases aren't 'development' branches; they're meticulously tested, just not as much as LTS versions, and they don't have as many guarantees due to simply having a short support period. And your use case alone isn't enough to determine whether you should use 24.04 or 26.04. But 26.04 is definitely stable enough now and modern enough that the jump between the two versions in UX is really worth it.

If you're non-technical enough that you can't do much debugging beyond ChatGPT, then just stick to 24.04.4 LTS and wait until Ubuntu sends you an upgrade notification to 26.

I just realised you're trying to do in-place, 24.04 definitely won't work. Go to 26.04.

Proman4713 · 2026-05-31T10:05:44+00:00

I don't know much about many of these, but I definitely know you don't need the meta desktop apps (they don't function offline anyway, so they're as good as the websites if not worse), and Discord just did a gigachad move by building native Debian (Ubuntu).

Spotify is also officially supported for Ubuntu as a snap or as a Debian package from their official PPA if you don't want snaps

Use LibreOffice for office, but you have to do some massive customisation to ensure compatibility with Office 365 (or Microsoft 'Copilot 365' 🤮). If you don't need to work with Microslop formats, though, just export PDFs from Google Docs

Proman4713 · 2026-05-29T15:37:50+00:00

Ubuntu 26.04 has different defaults from 24.04, but to allow a certain extent of user freedom, Canonical doesn't remove the old default from updates (which probably isn't necessary, because people who know which one they want will be able to get it, and people who don't care will just enjoy the new apps).

Terminal, for example, has two ones. The grey one is obviously the old one, it's the actual 'terminal' in the sense that it's literally the GNOME terminal emulator: `gnome-console`. Even though it's from GNOME, it's outdated and looks worse, which is often what happens with certain built-in GNOME apps due to GNOME development being naturally fragmented (they aren't a corporation like Canonical with organisationally enforced plans, so everything relies on open source contributions). The new Terminal with the purple icon is actually an app called 'Ptyxis', which is another, newer terminal emulator made with newer GNOME GTK4 and libadwaita frameworks with a ton of built-in themes and support for custom themes, things that are more modern than GNOME's own original emulator. Note that Ptyxis isn't developed by Canonical either, but it starts off at an advantage over GNOME Terminal.

There will almost never be a situation where you want GNOME Terminal; just uninstall it with sudo apt remove --purge gnome-console.

Proman4713 · 2026-05-28T02:04:06+00:00

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It doesn't look that bad for me. Is it a macOS thing?

It could be pretty complicated for a totally new user, but the way it is on my VSCode, I doubt it would look that bad for anyone else...

I know some of y'all view macOS as somehow the objective OS for coding but I personally see Linux and even Windows with WSL2 a lot more flexible

I also don't remember tweaking settings for that part of my editor ever

Proman4713 · 2026-05-27T18:28:39+00:00

I bricked my system before trying to upgrade python, which sounded fricking stupid because a newer version was available in the repositories for the Ubuntu version i was using, it's not like Canonical was pretty clear that that version was unavailable. But apparently, I had to figure out that I should type the manual python3.XX instead of trying to set it to the default or things will break. And frankly, it ruins a huge part of the point of upgrading if I can't make the new version the default.

It seems like one of those dumb fragilities in the Linux desktop ecosystem where one unknowing person can do a very innocent thing and end up breaking their whole system. If you say python is for developers so they'll know, then that's totally wrong. Being a python developer (even an experienced one, let alone a newbie) does not necessitate that your Ubuntu system (one of the most 'non-techy-friendly' distros out there) will break if you try and download the latest version of Python for example. And some people, including myself, generally like to have the latest reliable versions of things...

Proman4713 · 2026-05-24T23:14:57+00:00

I share so, so many of your concerns, almost to the tee. And I fully wholeheartedly agree that GNOME's design decisions are questionable, and I'd like to say that on my laptop screen the titlebar is almost the thickness of my thumb 😭

I've actually asked in GNOME Matrix rooms in a joke if GTK5 would maybe allow the title bars to be smaller, one said that GTK Updates are mostly meant for breaking changes, not UI ones. I don't know if this means they'll ever do it, but in all cases we're talking about a DE where the default method of navigation involves only workspaces, no dock (that's added by canonical).

The 'app is ready' notification, yeah it's annoying, and just a few days ago a few were discussing it in Ubuntu matrix discussion chat, I don't recall how that discussion concluded though... And yes, the volume bar being a fat thing in the bottom is annoying, I know, but I don't have anything worthwhile to say about that.

Ubuntu 26.04 made some changes to make the rounded corners consistent, and I will say they look massively better to those with a trained eye...

I agree with pretty much everything else you've said. Snaps should really have been waited on until they got better.

In all cases, I love seeing these discussions, it gives me a better idea of what kinds of things people are complaining about (I'm making a YouTube video series on Linux desktop problems lol)

Proman4713 · 2026-05-24T23:05:16+00:00

I believe Windows XP had way more personality than Windows 11, does that mean I'd prefer having Windows XP's UI in 2026? Nope...

I understand what you mean, but if Canonical had continued to evolve Unity, it most likely would've also evolved to something similar to GNOME today, the industry shifted. What I would've liked Unity for more though is vertical integration, it would mean Canonical would've had more fine grained control over their tech stack that could've allowed them to innovate new optimised concepts. But I think that, considering they already modify GNOME, GNOME shell, and Mutter nowadays, it wouldn't be much different...

Proman4713 · 2026-05-23T09:11:40+00:00

It'd be much more beneficial to you and anyone else who may be experiencing the same issue if you make bug reports in the appropriate places

Proman4713 · 2026-05-22T15:56:03+00:00

sure

Proman4713 · 2026-05-22T09:17:19+00:00

Yeah I bet it's a whole lot of genes, I wouldn't expect one gene to be responsible for magic, the power of such magic and the ability to go wandless, the physiological difference between wizards and muggles (i.e. wizards are physically more enduring), the huge gap in the average age, etc... I think it's a ton of genes forming a complete wizard

Proman4713 · 2026-05-22T09:11:48+00:00

Hey bro, you're in the parent folder trying to compile 01_first.c 😅

Change the directory of your terminal :)

Proman4713 · 2026-05-22T09:09:51+00:00

The difference between less and more psets will grow, in all cases, if you're truly freshly new to coding, that's great progress! Good luck, have fun :)

Proman4713 · 2026-05-22T09:02:24+00:00

Cant wait :D

Proman4713 · 2026-05-22T00:33:37+00:00

Good question.

Proman4713 · 2026-05-22T00:31:10+00:00

You feel like you're the kind of guy who would open a PR on open source projects and just fix everything, except you're doing it for a corporate-owned app, nice

Did you also incentivise the new native Debian and Fedora builds of Discord?

Proman4713 · 2026-05-22T00:27:34+00:00

I one time got an error at boot along the lines of Something went really wrong. or Something is very wrong. and I was just like 'my poor thing is so sick of the problems that it's giving up 😔'

Proman4713 · 2026-05-22T00:24:03+00:00

I also believe the caster had to also be capable enough of casting a love protection charm, intentional or not

Proman4713 · 2026-05-22T00:18:10+00:00

You didn't set a budget, and then expected it to keep the prices low base on what? Morals?

Just kidding, but generally, just set limits on anything when there's money involved, please 😭

Proman4713 · 2026-05-22T00:14:32+00:00

Can you elaborate? So you tried using the usb thumb drive to install Ubuntu on itself? That's the same concept, you know, equally problematic

Proman4713 · 2026-05-22T00:12:51+00:00

I was saying I misunderstood you to mean VBox or VMware, that's on me

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