like how tf am I supposed to know. No, he doesn’t even show me the computer on so I can check task manager or anything. Forgot the charger in another state. He just wants to know why his, currently dead, computer runs slow.
It could literally be anything causing this. Too much stuff running in the background, maybe one task is super intense, overheating, storage is full, idfk. I hate being known as the tech person.
Tried to install Ubuntu literally yesterday. Upon finishing installation, I tried:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgradeRed line error on upgrade command because of some error installing “polkitd” or some shit. Literally can’t even upgrade on a fresh install on LTS Ubuntu. Fuck Windows but fuck Linux too
apt-get upgrade doesn’t handle package deletes and isn’t actually what you’re looking for. Here’s your fix:
sudo apt --fix-broken installsudo apt full-upgradeTo be honest if you don’t know what you’re doing well enough to have a specific reason you need to do manual package management, you don’t need to bother using apt or the command line at all. Just go through Software & Updates or the Ubuntu store for all your updates. The benefit of Linux is that you just don’t need to fuck around with all this stuff manually. Just install steam and play games, it’ll handle everything by itself. :)
The “fix broken install” thing is a joke right? There’s no way that’s an actual command.
I’m trying to do the apt-get upgrade thingy because I wanna stall some specific GCC eventually to program microcontrollers (I’m a low level nerd, C for microcontrollers, that’s why my head explodes with such big commands doing 17366272 lines of code)
–fix-broken is a real flag. You can also use -f
You could probably get that stuff installed through the snap store. I’m constantly surprised by how many things have a snap, flatpak, or .deb that works perfectly.
How to make Linux work: “fix broken”. Truly peak command. Thank you, I’ll try that later!
Surely I can’t, it’s a weird git, check it out if you want it’s called “ch32fun” by “cnlohr”
I’m not entirely sure, but could this snap be helpful?
That might be terminal only, yeah.
Yeah, looks cool, I’ll look into it <3 thanks so much!
Update: ended up killing Ubuntu altogether and installing Linux Mint. Seems to work flawlessly so far, thank you for your support <3
Mint is really good!
Lately, I’ve been recommending Bazzite as well, it’s really convenient to just be completely hands off and just be able to use the computer as a tool
I heard of bazzite, isn’t it for gaming or something?
The enshitification of ubuntu particularly is independent from Linux still not being 100% grandpa-friendly
Which, btw, no OS ever was 100% universally friendly with no faults
Why are you using a terminal to update your system? Does Ubuntu not let you update via the desktop?
Why does it matter? Am I doing anything wrong by using apt-get upgrade?
Well it’s not the intended way to update your system since there’s a software updates app.
You can use Linux without having to memorize terminal commands and you should insist on that when using the system.