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i bought a usb flash drive and there wasn't any bloatware preloaded? just a truly empty preformatted exFAT partition? samsung… thank you…

holy shit, i installed ubuntu onto a manually partitioned usb flash drive inside a vm (with usb passthrough), then rebooted my intel macbook and booted from the drive directly, and not only does it boot, but closing my laptop lid moves the login screen to my external monitor?

‪IS THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP FINALLY UPON US???‬

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the wifi works???,????????!!!??????? i

‪the trackpad works, the keyboard works, it handles opening and closing the lid much faster and much better than macos… wow‬

‪the built-in speakers don't work though, aha. but the headphone jack does! and i am using an external audio interface anyway, which also works :3‬

‪oh, when i tried to log into discord the laptop apparently entered involuntary sleep twice and the wifi adapter stopped working… but the midi editor kept playing and no data was lost. that's… interesting.‬

‪the year of the linux desktop may still be a little further away :p‬

[forgot to crosspost this yesterday]

well, hasn't happened again after rebooting, and i can't say for sure that wasn't caused by weird environmental factors (cables getting nudged?) so i'm happy right now

ok so when i set up this usb flash drive, i used a custom partitioning: ~0.5GB for the efi partition, 25GB for ubuntu, and the rest as a big ol' fat32 partition. the ubuntu installer lets you make custom partitions and set mount points, it's very cool. However…

‪i actually wanted to use exfat for that big partition, because fat32 sucks. i couldn't do that in the installer. but i was able to reboot later into macos and reformat that partition, and only that one, as exfat.‬

‪but now,,,, ubuntu won't boot. systemd drops me to a console,‬

‪and i think this is because my fat32 partition no longer exists. if i look at the journalctl output, i see /dev/disk/by-uuid/… times out for some uuid, then /my-cool-mountpoint does, and that's a dependency for “Local File Systems”…‬

so uhhh now i need to figure out how to repair a systemd configuration from the command line? because i can't just make it ignore this error and continue with a normal graphical boot, even though the partition had nothing on it.

girls… the year of the linux desktop isn't happening

‪oh my god it tells me to type “exit” after i'm done but for the graphical target that doesn't actually work because it's “destructive” whatever that means. god. i'm glad i have some idea how computers work because this would be a nightmare for an ordinary user‬

happy to report that vi /etc/fstab and adding a single # on the relevant line was all that was required. not happy to report that this was just a lucky guess. i was honestly expecting fstab to be autogenerated by systemd or something, which would have screwed me

‪i may sound like i'm complaining, and i am a little, but of course i enjoy the tinkering. linux is for people who enjoy having control over their computing environment and doing silly things like running their computer off a usb stick. i just encrypted my home folder and swap‬

THIS IS WHAT FREEDOM LOOKS LIKE

i tried to install the web browser called chromium and instead installed… this?

this is why i love linux

(what you can't see here is how the text on the title screen is a 3d object that spins and is shiny)

love to use the normal operating system where the app telling me about the updates can't install an update because the app that tells me about the updates is running

i love the sparkly “randomart” for ssh key fingerprints <3

@hikari roguelike security.

@hikari XOXE

@hikari it took some time but I fully erased snap from my laptop the other day. Now I get chromium and mozilla stuff from debian repos. :D

@hikari anyhow, I don't like having to fight my distro. I'm moving away from kubuntu as soon as I finish some work I'm doing.

@hikari ubuntu in a nutshell

All my homies hate ubuntu
Fuck ubuntu
Fuck snaps

@hikari that's obviously correct

@hikari every time you need to search for something you need to save the universe first?

@hikari similarly, there was another game called Epiphany packaged in Debian which predates the GNOME Web browser (a.k.a. Epiphany), so one would run into a similar situation. I still find it amusing.