Distro fever VI

[Brian_Innes]

A jolly good idea that, installing test distros onto a USB stick!

[Brian_Innes]

@guille2306

@Brian_Innes

Although I somehow fear that the normal releases will be less stable and will require a reinstall every 6 months when the new version comes out.

‘Normal’ Ubuntu releases are not inherently less stable than ‘LTS’. The only difference is the support length (9 months vs. years) and immutability of the programs (‘stability’ in the sense of ’not changing’). Of course, if you change programs more frequently the chances of hiting a bug are higher, but it’s not different than running the LTS and upgrading the apps by hand, or upgrading an LTS after two years. In fact LTS users are only upgraded to the next LTS something like 6 months after its release to iron out the (normal) bugs.

Of course one other advantage of normal *Ubuntu based releases, rather than LTS, is it’s more likely to be able to support newer hardware, or have the most up to date libraries for software etc.

However for a production machine, perhaps more useful to be on LTS! I guess I need to have another look at Kubuntu 20.04.3, and actually diagnose the issue, to get it working well on my new hardware.

[paperdigits (Mica)]

@Brian_Innes

Of course one other advantage of normal *Ubuntu based releases, rather than LTS, is it’s more likely to be able to support newer hardware, or have the most up to date libraries for software etc

LTS releases can have the HWE, hardware enablement kernel, enabled, and canonical back ports new drivers to the LTS kernel.

[Brian_Innes]

I really wish I could stop distro hoping, and actually use my system productively.

Unless I have somehow fallen into a Quantum Accelerator, like Sam Beckett, and my next quantum hope into a new distro will be final hop home…

[Thomas_Do (Thomas)]

@Brian_Innes

will be final hop home…

I am home . The oldest entry in the pacman log file on this computer is from September 12, 2011 (original Archlinux installation). However, the hardware has changed several times during this period .

[Claes]

@Brian_Innes

I really wish I could stop distro hoping,

Why? You never know: next distro might be
another step towards Nirvana.

/Which perhaps could explain why my present favourite
distro is an Indian one, named Garuda./

[Brian_Innes]

Hmmm, well, Kubuntu 21.10. Gwenview crashes whenever it opens a darktable exported jpg

Seems to be an issue with libexiv2-27 which ships with *buntu distros…

[Claes]

Time for YADH™ [yet another distro hop]?

[Brian_Innes]

Indeed. Even installing KDE 5.23.3, the very latest version, via Kubuntu backports, hasn’t fixed it!

Not really good for a photo editiing system if you cannot view exported jpgs in the standard image view (gwenview!)

[Claes]

Brian,
Garuda presently offers you exiv2 0.27.5-1.

Have fun,
Claes in Lund, Sweden

[Nathan_Crabtree]

I’ve just started using nomacs because of the issue with gwenview not opening raw files ATM. It’s a shame because I love gwenview.

I’ve moved on from distro hoping to window manager hoping.

[Brian_Innes]

Oddly, Gwenview is showing raws for me (Cannon .CR2)

[Nathan_Crabtree]

I’ll take another look, it may have been fixed. There were some it would open like Olympus files but it wasn’t wasn’t working with most.

[Brian_Innes]

Manually downgrading libexiv2-27 seems to have worked. Bit of a bodge though.

So the question is, where to go now. Especially since darktable 3.8 requires lua 5.4, which isn’t available for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS based distros, so no point going back to Linux Mint if it means I am unable to install darktable 3.8 due to missing dependencies.

[Claes]

Well, @Brian_Innes, there is an easy way to circumvent
that lua 54 “requirement” — if you compile dt yourself.
Simply set DONT_USE_INTERNAL_LUA to OFF.

[Brian_Innes]

Or use the flatpak version of dt?

Anyway, I’m back on ol’ Linux Mint Cinnamon. It’s not a perfect distro, but then again what is a perfect one…

[Claes]

@Brian_Innes

but then again what is a perfect one

Oh dear, I believe that we can start a feud based on that question…