Another problem upgrading to 19.10

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 at 16:45, Thomas Tanghus <thomas at tanghus.net> wrote:
>
> Yeah, I kinda got some idea what to do next, just getting tired. I've been
> using GNU/Linux for 25+ years, and I'm tired of this stuff. Please tell me
> other OSes are just as error prone ;)

I know *exactly* what you mean.

Unfortunately there is little to no money to be made from desktop
Linux. The profits are in servers.

And in mobile/touch, but tragically, Ubuntu has given up on that.

I work with openSUSE on a daily basis now. I ran it on a couple of my
own machines for a while. It's quite nice in a lot of ways, actually.
I have also been experimenting with Devuan, which is harder work -- it
would be, it's based on Debian -- but has some pleasing aspects.

More recently, though, I have read commentators who seem to agree that
the polished, well-integrated desktop title has moved on from Ubuntu,
so I've looked at some other desktop distros.

Everyone praises Linux Mint but all its desktops are Windows clones
which I don't particularly want. It has some very good touches,
though.

I am ignoring the hobbyists who like Arch and other
constantly-changing moving targets. :-)

But I had a big surprise in the last few days. I tried Deepin, in a VM
then on hardware.

It's not perfect but it is _stunning_ in polish. It's the
prettiest-looking Linux desktop I've seen in a decade+. It's got
immaculate integration, it's nicely customisable, and it seems fairly
quick. I am genuinely impressed.

It used to run very badly in VMs and it still gives a warning message.
I banished that, installed the VirtualBox drivers and 3D acceleration,
and it runs beautifully, resizable window, everything.

And on an old 4GB Thinkpad T420 it's pretty quick.

I'm very impressed.

> It just finished writing now. Now a break before continuing ;)
> Thanks for the effort.

You're very welcome. I feel your pain.

It's one reason I only run LTS releases on machines I actually need to
_use_ for stuff. It's also why I don't run GNOME on anything I need to
work.

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