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Ubuntu is, for me, Debian plus an unending parade of annoyances slapped on top. Mistyped a command? Let's wait 5 seconds for the prompt to come back because Ubu

by jff 14y ago

Ubuntu is, for me, Debian plus an unending parade of annoyances slapped on top. Mistyped a command? Let's wait 5 seconds for the prompt to come back because Ubuntu is going to search the repositories for packages that may match "friefox". Want to use a window manager or login manager besides the defaults? Hope you like pain--the last time I tried that on Ubuntu, only the default window manager was configured to shut off the program that draws the little "loading" dots on the screen as you boot, meaning my new FVWM desktop had glowing dots marching across the center over and over. Oh, sorry, my bad, if I wanted to use a window manager that isn't Unity, I should have downloaded an entirely different fucking ISO because apparently the way Debian has done things for years isn't good enough. But hey, at least the community is a cesspool of idiots cargo-culting their way to oblivion! Edit: Ooh, almost forgot: http://i.imgur.com/2sCYFvh.png http://i.imgur.com/2sCYFvh.png Ubuntu has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Nursie 14y ago
search the repositories for packages that may match "friefox" After having used Xubuntu for a while I'm getting really tempted to just ln -s /bin/grep /bin/grerp :)
epochwolf 14y ago
Edit: Ooh, almost forgot: http://i.imgur.com/2sCYFvh.png http://i.imgur.com/2sCYFvh.png Ubuntu has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. Have you tried turning it off and on again? Would you prefer seeing a terminal login prompt after X crashed?
- ziel 14y ago
  Um... I would? Then I can reattach to my tmux sessions, keep working, and restart at my leisure... or just restart x. But I haven't used ubuntu in a while, so perhaps this is just a case of I'm not in the right user group for the distro.
- tedunangst 14y ago
  Obviously x didn't crash, since the window appears in x. I get the same thing every time I start Ubuntu. When I ask for details, it's like "oh, I don't actually know what crashed, but I think something did."
  - lewispollard 14y ago
    I actually had to disable apport because of my relatively new hardware. When idle the GPU can enter a super low powered state which the Ubuntu driver interprets as a crash, then the GPU comes back online and... the crash reporter crashes. Resulting in about 20 'internal error' pop ups until it gives up.
stevepdp 14y ago
> Edit: Ooh, almost forgot: http://i.imgur.com/2sCYFvh.png http://i.imgur.com/2sCYFvh.png Ubuntu has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. Have you tried turning it off and on again? You can disable this feature by opening /etc/default/apport and editing enabled=1 to enabled=0. Then stop the service with "sudo service apport stop" or reboot. You can then selectively enable it again when you notice a reproducible bug or use ubuntu-bug to report bugs against packages.
csense 14y ago
> Let's wait 5 seconds for the prompt to come back because Ubuntu is going to search the repositories for packages that may match "friefox" I actually like this feature. I'm often following a tutorial, or using a command on a newer install, and suddenly a command's not found -- it's really nice to be able to see how to get past the obstacle immediately without Googling, guessing, or trying to figure out how to make the "apt-cache search" command tell you what you want to know. Also, for me the loading time isn't this long and is greatly reduced after the first such search. I'm guessing your system is under RAM pressure and your disk is fragmented.
- jff 14y ago
  I'm just sick of my OS trying to be smarter than me. It's usually not, it should just back off.
csense 14y ago
> Mistyped a command? If you mistype commands often, there's an entertaining package which contains an "sl" command. sudo apt-get install sl From the manpage: DESCRIPTION SL stands for Steam Locomotive. BUGS It rarely shows contents of current directory.

by jff 14y ago

Nursie 14y ago

search the repositories for packages that may match "friefox" After having used Xubuntu for a while I'm getting really tempted to just ln -s /bin/grep /bin/grerp :)

epochwolf 14y ago

Edit: Ooh, almost forgot: http://i.imgur.com/2sCYFvh.png http://i.imgur.com/2sCYFvh.png Ubuntu has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. Have you tried turning it off and on again? Would you prefer seeing a terminal login prompt after X crashed?

ziel 14y ago
Um... I would? Then I can reattach to my tmux sessions, keep working, and restart at my leisure... or just restart x. But I haven't used ubuntu in a while, so perhaps this is just a case of I'm not in the right user group for the distro.
tedunangst 14y ago
Obviously x didn't crash, since the window appears in x. I get the same thing every time I start Ubuntu. When I ask for details, it's like "oh, I don't actually know what crashed, but I think something did."
- lewispollard 14y ago
  I actually had to disable apport because of my relatively new hardware. When idle the GPU can enter a super low powered state which the Ubuntu driver interprets as a crash, then the GPU comes back online and... the crash reporter crashes. Resulting in about 20 'internal error' pop ups until it gives up.

stevepdp 14y ago

> Edit: Ooh, almost forgot: http://i.imgur.com/2sCYFvh.png http://i.imgur.com/2sCYFvh.png Ubuntu has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. Have you tried turning it off and on again? You can disable this feature by opening /etc/default/apport and editing enabled=1 to enabled=0. Then stop the service with "sudo service apport stop" or reboot. You can then selectively enable it again when you notice a reproducible bug or use ubuntu-bug to report bugs against packages.

csense 14y ago

> Let's wait 5 seconds for the prompt to come back because Ubuntu is going to search the repositories for packages that may match "friefox" I actually like this feature. I'm often following a tutorial, or using a command on a newer install, and suddenly a command's not found -- it's really nice to be able to see how to get past the obstacle immediately without Googling, guessing, or trying to figure out how to make the "apt-cache search" command tell you what you want to know. Also, for me the loading time isn't this long and is greatly reduced after the first such search. I'm guessing your system is under RAM pressure and your disk is fragmented.

jff 14y ago
I'm just sick of my OS trying to be smarter than me. It's usually not, it should just back off.

csense 14y ago

> Mistyped a command? If you mistype commands often, there's an entertaining package which contains an "sl" command. sudo apt-get install sl From the manpage: DESCRIPTION SL stands for Steam Locomotive. BUGS It rarely shows contents of current directory.