On 19/05/2022 06:48, Terry Coles wrote:
On Wednesday, 18 May 2022 19:46:45 BST Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
Huh, must be some configuration then. Maybe making a copy of /etc on
both machines and then comparing the difference between the files. I'm
not sure if there's some fancy recursive diff command to make that easy,
but Ralph might know :)
You may well be right, but as noted elsewhere, that will be a lot of work.
I'll try it to see if there is anything obvious, but otherwise the current
install is for the chop.
I thought you said it didn't work with live media on your desktop though?
I never tried it with a live instance of Kubuntu, only Ubuntu, Mint and Fedora
(which worked). Having seen it working with Kubuntu on the laptop, then I
guess it wouldn't hurt to give it a try. I've been doing upgrades for several
years now and the system tends to gather lots of cruft that way.
The only downside of a clean upgrade is that my /home directory has its own
partition; precisely to prevent the config files being lost. If a clean
installation retaining the /home partition doesn't work, then I'll try
installing with everything on one partition and moving /home afterwards. I've
done it before. It means a lot of reconfiguring, but needs must.
If a clean install doesn't work, you could just restore your previous
install from a backup, and then start messing with your config in /home,
or just delete it, might save some hassle.
I hope you don't have to do a fresh install, they're really annoying.
Maybe sticking to Kubuntu LTS releases would help - I had a really
terrible experience from around 2012-2014 until I started sticking with
the LTS releases. Granted, that was a long time ago and maybe that just
reflects when I'd learnt enough to not break things when I was messing
around with the system.
Over the years I've done a clean installation quite a few times and appreciate
that it will take some time to get back to where it was in terms of Plasma
Activities and installed packages etc, so I'm reasonably confident (famous last
words).
It may even solve some of the other niggles I've had with Kubuntu over the
last few upgrades. Nothing major, but annoying.
Makes sense.
Debian might also be more stable, if, like me, you really don't like
where Canonical's going with snaps.
I would certainly prefer not to have to deal with the plethora of snaps,
flatpaks and 'stuff' that's been creeping in over the past few years, but I like
Kubuntu, I'm used to working with it and other distros with native KDE
Desktops have other disadvantages.
Yeah, that's fair enough.
Hamish
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