Re: Favorite Linux Distros
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2018 10:25 pm
Had plenty of kernel oopses one time, turned out to be hardware failure/bad ram.
I know that. I also know they butchered the hell out of it for no adequately-explained reason - everything I listed is a problem I actually had, that disappeared when I switched to Debian. (The audio issues were actually fixed by removing PulseAudio, but Ubuntu wouldn't let me do that and Debian does.)Garth wrote:Ahem—Ubuntu is Debian-based.
One thing you can do to improve Firefox's memory use is enable Tracking Protection. This works because some of the most common memory-intensive scripts in web pages are analytics and real-time bidding scripts made with the express intent of tracking viewers' history across websites for interest-based advertising.Garth wrote:Ahem—Ubuntu is Debian-based. I've been using Ubuntu for many years, and the few times I can remember it ever crashing was because I didn't have the computer set up yet for disc-swapping, and I ran my 6GB of RAM full. (I sure wish firefox would improve their memory-allocation and fragmenting.)
Meltdown, Bounds Check Spectre, and Branch Target Spectre led to a bunch of updates to Linux and core libraries in quick succession recently. Several years ago, a bunch of OpenSSL fixes also led to reboots, as OpenSSL is loaded by so many long-running user applications and services that it's easiest to ensure that all affected programs are restarted by restarting Linux.Garth wrote:It used to be I only had to re-start a couple of times a year (when updates required it), but lately they've been requiring it much more often.
If by "click on" you mean follow a link in a web browser, I think that's related to web servers that mistakenly serve things other than newline-separated ASCII or UTF-8 text as Content-type: text/plain. Or by "click on" did you mean in the native file manager?Garth wrote:There are a few other minor irritations, like when I click on a .pdf and it sometimes asks me if I want to open it with my text editor.
This didn't work, but it seemed to be because I have 14.04, not 16.04 which our son who's the Linux expert here wasn't fond of and I don't remember why. 18.04 is supposed to be out tomorrow, and he will evaluate it when he gets around to it.Garth wrote:I'll look into it. Thanks. Is that the whole command? Is there anything I have to be careful of?tepples wrote:Have you tried sudo apt autoremove to purge unused packages, particularly old linux-image versions?
I meant on a web page. So maybe it's as you say, their server, not my OS.tepples wrote:If by "click on" you mean follow a link in a web browser, I think that's related to web servers that mistakenly serve things other than newline-separated ASCII or UTF-8 text as Content-type: text/plain. Or by "click on" did you mean in the native file manager?Garth wrote:There are a few other minor irritations, like when I click on a .pdf and it sometimes asks me if I want to open it with my text editor.
Garth wrote:I'll look into it. Thanks. Is that the whole command? Is there anything I have to be careful of?
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(23:15:32 jdc@linux) ~ $ cat update_mint
#!/bin/sh -e
sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y upgrade
sudo apt-get -y autoremove
sudo apt-get -y autoclean