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To bring some closure to this, I was not able to figure out why my Ubuntu installation only booted to GUI one time then failed, though no doubt it was something I did. So I did some experimenting...

I saw those instructions were for 20.04 and tried not to remove anything that was needed but obviously clobbered something that should have been left alone.

Here are the apt log entries for the...

Thanks. As detailed in the wiki I installed the linux-generic kernel. This installed the 5.15.0-91-generic kernel. Then rebooted, selected the 5.15 kernel, and the GUI came up. So, then I removed the...

I used the latest installer, Lubuntu 22.04.3, that may well be the problem.

Thanks for those suggestions! I added the "nomodeset" setting, ran update-grub, and rebooted. However after Plymouth is done displaying the startup/logo screen the system doesn't switch into graphics...

I'm resurrecting an ancient Acer laptop using Lubuntu, something I've done successfully with other old hardware in the past. However this laptop is equipped with an Nvidia GeForce 7000m video card...

I haven't done this with Windows 11 but have used ssh with Windows servers. Possibly the Windows 11 implementation is set up the same way.

Is the "April" account an administrative account? On...

That's pretty much the way I figured it. I think for the use this guy is going to give it there's nothing all that compelling about the 12th-gen chips, would rather go a generation or two back and...

A friend who is sick and tired of Windows and appalled by Windows 11 is having me build him a new computer to run Ubuntu Linux as the primary operating system. (He has been running Linux in a VM for...

Thanks, looks like FIPS is not anything needed for an ordinary desktop system. I'll leave things as they are until I have time to install a newer Ubuntu version.

I went ahead and registered my 16.04 desktop system for Ubuntu Advantage since I don't have time right now to redo everything. When first running "ua attach [token]", the process hung for quite some...

Thanks, that worked!

An issue with Signal, installed via snap on Ubuntu Mate 16.04, is that the "Preferences" popup window is very unresponsive. It comes up first as a blank white box until you either let several minutes...

I've been trying to run signal, which is a snap application, via X11 forwarding. However when running "ssh -X user@remote-computer /snap/bin/signal-desktop", signal opens up on remote-computer...

I've been looking at Jami (jami.net) as an alternative to commercial programs such Skype and Zoom. However, I've tried installing it on 3 different Ubuntu Linux laptops (two 18.04 and one 20.04) and...

You might give Foxit PDF reader a try. There is a native Linux version or you can run the Windows version under wine.

https://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf-reader/

Another possibility might be to...

I received an answer to this in the Lubuntu support forum. There is an option for this but the name is a bit misleading: "Single Click to Activate Items" in the Mouse and Touchpad settings. (It is...

This is on an Asus X200MA laptop. It's currently running Xubuntu 14.04 which works well aside from being unsupported. My thought was that Lubuntu would be the most suitable upgrade since this is an...

Thanks, that's a good workaround if the ftp handler can't be specified. Might be a moot point though since newer versions of Ubuntu seem to work OK with DD-WRT's Samba and I'll probably upgrade to...

Can you access the server's filesystem from the recovery disk? Does the hardware pass diagnostics? I'm not sure what was supposed to be pasted from the recovery disk but there does not appear to be...

This is on Ubuntu Mate 16.04, and the question is precipitated by a workaround to another problem.

Recently I installed a newer router (Asus RT-AC66U_B1) to replace my aging Asus RT-N16. The older...

A service that I used has switched to mandatory 2FA, supporting Google and Microsoft methods. This works fine on Windows with WinAuth using the Google method, where I was able to feed in the URL of...

Well I guess not many people have run into this problem. For what it's worth I came up with a workaround - in the "Applications" tab of Sound Preferences, mute eSpeak and speech-dispatcher. This...

This is for Ubuntu Mate 18.04.3...

All of a sudden I am getting voice assist for everything on the screen; menus, programs, files, etc. Also for keyboard input. I did not knowingly do anything to...

I'm running Lubuntu 18.04 on an old Acer TravelMate 4670, a Centrino-based laptop of about 2005 vintage. The CPU is 32-bit only. With 2GB memory and a small SSD Lubuntu actually runs quite well on...