I typed in the exact error message i got in google, and found the issue is that it tries to use SMBv1 to get the list of shares, and if it’s disabled on the server, you’re out of luck.

What was the error message? I want to investigate this a little bit.

It was running 24fps video on 30hz refreshrate. It’s subtle for sure, but easily noticable. It means every 5th frame last twice as long as the others. If the camera pans, you just see it isn’t perfectly smooth.

Hm, yeah, I could see that, actually. I just didn’t expect it to be running at 30Hz is part of where I was coming from, I assumed minimum 60Hz.

Yeah, I mean, all I can really tell you is what I said before – this is a down side, yes. A lot of the people who build the technology aren’t too invested in solving this type of problem, and in general there’s no one with money at the center of it trying to ensure a good end-user experience, so you may have to just set 60Hz and hope for the best.

seem to be under the impression that Ubuntu is supposed to install .debs you downloaded when you click on them

Dude, it is. Google it yourself.

Hm, I was just indicating my personal opinion on it. I don’t think recommending to anyone who doesn’t have the knowledge to muck around with the command line to mess around with .debs they found on the internet is going to end well. I see some people on the internet (this is a good example) saying they recommend it for stuff like Google Chrome, but I just think that’s a recipe for trouble.

For me, I would tell them to install Chromium through apt and explain that it’s the same without some Google crap. I think people’s natural tendency is going to be to try to install software on Linux by finding it on a web site, downloading it, and clicking it, and I think if you’re teaching someone Linux, part of your job should be to educate them out of thinking that way. I get why the Ubuntu people would want to emphasize that in service of a good end user experience I guess, but I would not do it that way.

You’re really gaslighting me here.

But now i complain about it being broken and you’re all like “that’s totally not expected behavior”.

Not true. What I said was “I have no idea why Ubuntu removed that behavior, but I suspect that…” IDK, maybe you’re right that they want users to be able to do that, and they just managed to cock it up in one particular version of Ubuntu. In which case, I actually fully agree with your assessment that that’s a bad thing about Ubuntu (on top of me already thinking that it’s a bad thing if they want users to be able to do that). All I really take away from that is “Oh no, maybe the people telling you Ubuntu isn’t the right ‘easy mode’ distribution to use” are maybe onto something.

Look, i get it, you like linux and are happy with it. But you can’t just wipe any negative experience under the carpet with gaslighting like this.

Let me use an analogy. Someone always eats at an Italian restaurant. Then, they go to a Mexican restaurant one day. They look at the menu and try to look for their chicken piccata. Then they ask where is the bread for the table. Someone says, well we can get chips if you want to start with chips, but they’re not really bread. They say, no I want bread. You can see where the analogy is going. It’s just a different restaurant.

Someone could say, well, you’re just trying to gaslight me into saying that bread wasn’t terrible. It was hard and stale and thin and there was no butter. It was salty and horrible, I barely wanted to eat it. I’m trying, right now, to get you to eat the salsa. I’m actually happy to talk with you about all kinds of bad things about Linux and the reasons behind them, but you have to understand why things are the way they are and the upsides before. Or, I mean, you can do whatever you want, but it’ll lead you to a better experience (whether or not you keep it on the desktop, it’ll probably help you with the headless servers in some regard).