A better flabour?

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Mon Sep 3 16:08:52 UTC 2018


On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 at 17:01, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> 03 September 2018  at 16:46, Colin Law wrote:
> Re: A better flabour? (at least in part)
>
> >On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 at 16:29, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
> ><ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 03 September 2018  at 14:05, Colin Law wrote:
> >> Re: A better flabour? (at least in part)
> >>
> >> >On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 at 13:56, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
> >> ><ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi All
> >> >>
> >> >> Truly are there some people who should not use Ubuntu?
> >> >>
> >> >> I have a friend who seems able to kill or at least make unusable ever effort I
> >> >> make to give him a Ubuntu system
> >> >
> >> >What is he doing that destroys them?
> >>
> >> I don't know, wish I did, the latest "Could" be something to do with a "Known"
> >> display bug, that has so far not been addressed?
>
> >I have never heard of a display bug that could destroy the system. In
> >fact I think it is almost impossible to destroy an Ubuntu system (from
> >inside) if you have not got sudo privileges.
>
> He needs sudo to update, the only non GUI thing he does

Don't let him upgrade through the terminal for a start.
Set up automatic updates and then he won't have to do anything at all.
On the odd occasions when something sudo is necessary then ssh in and
do it for him.

Colin




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