Useless error dialogue box - was - Re: Upgrade from 19.10 to 20.04 failed - upgrade process broken

Ralf Mardorf kde.lists at yahoo.com
Fri May 15 12:39:10 UTC 2020


Something crashed. Do you notice any disfunction?

I see that all the times, when running Ubuntu flavour live media.
Whoopsie, apport and what ever lese related to it, isn't installed on my
machine, let alone that only services and autostarts are enabled I
wish to have.

By default Ubuntu's package management enables almost every service
provided by a package and starts almost all autostart "features", if
not all of them.

You might consider auto-bug-detection a security feature, but it isn't.

Don't care about it, unless you notice disfunctions. The best
thing to do is installing a minimalist Ubuntu install, e.g. by the
server install and when doing it, to uncheck anything unneeded. After
the installation finished take a look at all autostarts and services and
disable anything you do not need. This does requires some Internet
research and work, but in the end most likely nothing does crash
anymore. It does increase performance a lot and even if you should keep
whoopsie, apport and what ever else related to it, unlikely something
still crashes in the background, so you don't get doubt spreading
notifications anymore.

Overdone user-friendliness leads to Windows alike behaviour. At best
Apple is close to provide super-duper user-friendliness, since the
hardware is known and the products are super-duper expensive in the
first place.

Attempts of providing too much user-friendliness tend to fail, almost
all of the times.




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