Ubuntu is now in Real Panic Mode-Why?

Ubuntu is now in Real Panic Mode-Why?

I know why?

Going for RUSH will kill it.

That is my prediction.

Do not go for Ubuntu bandvagon which ius EMPTY if one take "Free Software" from Richard Stallman.

Is Ubuntu trying to reinvest the Wheel?

I do not think so.

It was based on Debian Gnome and moment one dissociate with Gnome the repositories are gone.

Current version has nothing from Ubuntu.

It has Firefox (FireFox has three versions now and I have them in MX Linux installed) which is free software and not belonging to Ubuntu.

It has Thunderbird that Genome Email client.

It has GIMP again from Gnome.

LibreOffice is one that I despise and I would remove it soon after installation of Gnome and go for AbiWord, instead.

Ubuntu does not support Synaptic Package Manager and many has gone for sand-boxed SNAP packages developed by various entities without proper supervision.

Ubuntu will blame them and shy away from responsibility.

In fact, I can produce a better distribution myself but I have no commercial intention to do so, except for promoting Linux until it passes 10% Desktop penetration which will come soon. long before I kick the bucket.

Ubuntu's contribution for this 10% is going to be minimal.

Ubuntu does not have even a Desktop of its own to boast about let alone the distribution right.

RUST is their death knell and I do not go for fancy efficiency and performance buzz-words which are market hype with no value added.

I am glad I never used Ubuntu as the daily driver but only a testing environment.

On the plus side Ubuntu was the only distribution other than Emmabantus which could configure emerging WiFi Saga.

Even Endavour OS can do it now but Endeavour OS is minimal and has lot of problems due to their minimalism

If you really want a functioning Light weight distribution try ARCH base CatchyOS which is 1000 better than glossy but featureless Ubuntu.

My5  distributions of Choice are

Only Gnome based not with KDE

1. Debian Gnome

2. BluStarLinux (KDE but I have converted it to Gnome and Cosmic)

3. Cachy OS

4. MX Linux but I have modified it highly

5. Perhaps Manjaro but its current partition tool has problems.

My be Calamara but short in applications.

Others

1. If you want hassle free distribution try Retrunner which comes from Germany

2. Emmaabtus, (lot of utilities). if you want only a single Linux distribution which cannot cohabit with other Linux distributions buy their is a way round it.

3. Linux Mint has problem with GRUB file and has proprietary software codecs.

4. Elive but need to pay subscription

5. Pardus

6. Garuda

Zorin, Tuxedos, Suse and Fedora I have no respect at all except their use, perhaps for some Lunatic Linux Gamers.

Steam of Valve have overtaken them by many a mile.

I have a big grudge with Valve, they said they will release a Desktop ISO but they never kept to that promise.

Those American always cheat their customers base by default. 

That opinion about Americans came to me long before Valve and Steam. 

They cheated Ukrainians and Ukrainians do not have a country left.

They (Zelensky and his Bandera Clan) have sold their land (country) to American mineral exploiters.

What a turnaround in World and Linux Politics?

 

Minimum to Maximum Usage of Computers and Their Utilities

Minimum to Maximum Usage of Computers and Their Utilities

I am a scientific guy.

From cutting nails to preparing a cup of tea to a editing a Scientific Text, I do it with complete concentration.

To this I have added Total Quality Management (T.Q.M)

Let me start with Puppy Linux.

It has 11 processes.

1. File Managing

2. Terminal Editing and Emulation

3. Process Viewing

4. Default Browsing

5. Default Text Editing

6. Default Painting for Kids

7. Default Word Processing

8. Setting Up Puppy Desktop

9. Tray for Placing (Editing) Applications

10. Help when things go wrong

11. Finally Exiting once the job is done.

Any addition to this rigmarole is clunky.

The best example is modern cellphone which has many distracting applications which are counterproductive.

When I have an important session for undergraduate students, first thing I do is to collect all the cellphones (for example before an examination commences).

Cellphone was the most Destructive Force man has invented and without it man progressed at an easy pace. Now when somebody has Verbal Diarrhoea one resorts to insane messaging about a war in the past or present without giving due regard to collateral damage by both sides. 

But the if the messages is factual it is are either exaggerated or an event in the past presented presented as happening now. 

So the scenario of "Faked News" rule the world.

Teaching undergraduate students was the most boring thing I did in my medical career but doing some work after retirement with the NUC in front of me and say editing a scientific text using AbiWord needs total concentration.

Blog piece does not need any concentration but letting the frustration and steam out is the objective. 

It is somewhat analogous to Video Games.

In an illusion not reality of life per say.

In my case when I get an important idea, say from one of my dreams and I jot it down first on a piece of paper if woken up to begin with and later make a blog piece without any edition.

Editing is done long after the Original Idea.

Followings are all Linux Derivatives which  are Free Software and there are ton of  commercial variations and derivatives.

There are over 30 varieties.

1. Evolution is the personal Information Manager

2. Thunderbird is the Email Client

3. Dillo, Falkon. Epiphany and Firefox free software

Opera, Brave, Vivaldi are commercial

Palemoon and Pokemon themes web browsers were my old time utilities

4. LibreOffice and OpenOffice were office suites

5. Gimp is a fantastic Image editor my favorite.

6. Audacity is my favorite Audio player

7. VLC is my favorite Media player

8. Audio Editer

9. Video Edotres

10. Inkscape is a Vector graphic editor

11. Scribus is a desktop publisher

12. Blender is a 3 D Modelling utility

Kodi, OBS, Kdenlive are streaming and recording software

14. Box is virtualization software

Oracle is a commercial virtualization software

15. Pidgin is an instant messaging Clinet

One can what a lot one is missing oif one is not using Linux and they all are free unlike Oracle (came form Redhat to begin with) 

Oracle Linux is a free, open-source Linux distribution developed and supported by Oracle, designed for enterprise-level workloads and Oracle applications. It's a derivative of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), sharing application binary compatibility but branded and supported by Oracle.

16. bit torrent cklints like transmission, deluge and qbit torrent

17 IRC chat like hexchat

18. Voice chat like Muble

19. Password Managers and keyrings which is a simple paranoia.

20. VPN client like OPEN VPN

21. Stacer one of the best System Optimizer and Maintenance utility

22. Htop a System monitor

23. Tilex, Tilda, Terminator, Yakuake which are Termibal emulators and ONLY one is enough to keep track of system health and system mangement

24. Guake a drop down terminal

25. Window Managers

26. Desktop Types

27. System cleaners like bleach-bit and sweeper

28. Partition editor which is very important

29. CD/DVD reader and writer

30. Conkey

31. Cairo Deck

 

31. REDSHIFT

32. pACKAGE MANGES LIKE sYNAPATIC PACKAGE MANBNDGER AND snap SOFT

 

EndevourOS Update

Endeavour OS Update

Do Not try this distribution if YOU are a nervy Guy or Girl.

It sucks.

I am currently installing EndeavourOS on top of Netrunner.

Sorry Netrunner when my  partition table got stuck with Manjaro, YOU rescued my GRUB Boot Loader.

The ultimate reason was due to two reasons.

I decided to support all the ARCH derivatives which are user friendly.

The second reason is I have decided to ditch all KDE Desktops which look beautiful but takes over space and RAM, boot slow and do not add to my functionality.

Both BlueStarOS and EndeavourOS are promoted with KDE Desktop but when on installs EndavourOS one gets the option to select 9 desktops or even without desktop with Cli to work with.

NeoMercury takes me to my Astonmy interest to.

Yes, Sky is not the limit for me.

Its installation is brisk.

There has graphical instructions all the way.

It does not configure GRUB and if it fails again I have a way about to get the GRUB recovered. 

THANK YOU to all ARCH guys and girls and their supporters. 

Well, I posted this while installing but with Netruuner and cannot give running commentary, and that is another reason for ditching it. 

I have tried Cosmic Desktop, too and it is sleek but Tuxedo Desktop is not freely available. 

No intention of trying it, at all.

Installation is over, I need to add some applications. 

By the way, CatchyOS I installed is minimal but fantastic.