 Wow whatever Ubuntu did to their gui software center thingy in the ~8 years since I last used Ubuntu is awful! There is hardly any software, and it segfaults when I try to install something. On a clean OS installation! Am I missing a secret way to get the old functionality back? I mean I can use `apt` for sure but I did like being able to browse cool software. (Please do not recommend other distros. The ONLY distro I am allowed to use on my work laptop is Ubuntu 20 LTS.) 11 comments | Expand all CWs
 @darius I've never really found the attempts to put an app store frontend over package managers on desktop Linux to be any good, I think you're out of luck 🙁  @darius I've run dozens of distros, been running *nix systems exclusively for over a decade. Ubuntu is by far the hardest. I keep attempting it periodically, because people keep saying it's "easy" and "friendly", but I don't think I've ever gotten it to actually install properly other than once or twice on headless VMs. And when i look up the error messages it's always "Yeah, Ubuntu shipped a broken version of [x], if you need that try the next release in six months"  @squeakypancakes I did not know about discover until some other replies to this post, and I did not know about the mate frontend until right now!  @darius a lot of things just plain don't work under Wayland, so use the Xorg session Figured out the two things that were making Ubuntu 20 slow for me. 1: It installed with 1GB of swap space. This is comically low for a machine with 16GB of RAM. Increased it to 16GB and that helped a lot. But my GUI was still really slow, at which point I realized 2: I had "fractional scaling" enabled for one of my displays. I turned it off and suddenly everything is butter-smooth. It means I have to run my high-DPI screen at a lower resolution but I'll take it.  @meena Ubuntu recommends 25% RAM worth of swap if you don't user the hibernate feature; it recommends ~125% RAM if you do. I don't use it, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to go for 100%. I don't know what it's used for but when I had 1GB of swap the system monitor showed 100% swap usage at all times! |
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@darius Not sure what exactly Ubuntu does by default these days, but enabling Flathub probably helps :)
https://flathub.org