sean99
pfm Member
Of course you took a timeshift snapshot before upgrading the kernal and you can roll back no?
Cheers,
DV
There's always one smartarse.
Of course you took a timeshift snapshot before upgrading the kernal and you can roll back no?
Cheers,
DV
No real idea what's wrong but what version of GRUB are you running the old one or the "new" one? If old do you need to edit menu.lst to run the correctly installed kernel, if it's the newer GRUB then it should have run update-grub automatically but it may not have happened. I would recommend you research rather than taking my word on anything though....
Every machine I have set up has a partition just for timeshift snapshots and its saved me a lot of time. It makes try-and-see very easy.There's always one smartarse.
However my takeaway is that linux is still not at Windows / MacOs levels of easy user updating, which is a bit disappointing considering how long Linux and ubuntu have been around.
Novatech do both full desktop machines and "bare-bones" machines (case/motherboard/cpu/memory) where you just transfer your hard drives and other peripherals from your old machine. In both cases their machines are available with no Windows and hence no Microsoft tax. I believe they also do their own branded laptops on the same basis.
Thanks - I'll look into that. I haven't lost any files/work, so at some point I'll probably do a clean install on a new HD. However my takeaway is that linux is still not at Windows / MacOs levels of easy user updating, which is a bit disappointing considering how long Linux and ubuntu have been around.
Hmmm Dell has been supplying Linux on their PCs for 20 years so I guess its supply and demand. I guess the user base are business where they need Linux.Yes, but how many people buy a Novatech brand laptop? Dell sell only a very, very few models with Ubuntu installed, but it seems like a token gesture to show they are not in league with the MS monopoly.
If anything both Win and macOS updates are a super PITA. They both download in the background even if automatic updates are turned off and then nag nag nag you to upgrade and try to trick you into updating. With major updates both go out to lunch and can keep you hanging about when you need to work or in my case take the taxi waiting outside whilst the dam things are doing whatever they need to do sloooowly.Well, I almost never bother to 'update' the Linux distros I use, which makes the task pretty trivial. I just wait until a given LTS has been about for some months, then install the current version. I can't compare it with Windows or Mac as I stopped bothering with them over a decade ago. I always found Windows a PITA, but that's me, I guess.
If anything both Win and macOS updates are a super PITA. They both download in the background even if automatic updates are turned off and then nag nag nag you to upgrade and try to trick you into updating. With major updates both go out to lunch and can keep you hanging about when you need to work or in my case take the taxi waiting outside whilst the dam things are doing whatever they need to do sloooowly.
Well, I almost never bother to 'update' the Linux distros I use, which makes the task pretty trivial. I just wait until a given LTS has been about for some months, then install the current version. I can't compare it with Windows or Mac as I stopped bothering with them over a decade ago. I always found Windows a PITA, but that's me, I guess.
I thought it was more a case of MS issuing a great OS followed by a crap one, followed by another goodie, and so on. In my computing life I remember:Point taken. Although I remember when Vista came out, and then Win 7, many were grumbling that XP was better. But then there is always an initial negative reaction to "New."
I must be much older, alas, because my favourites were:
DOS+Staroffice
Win 3.1
Win 98
Win XP
Then Red Hat, Mandrake/Mandriva, Mepis, Kubuntu. Never, ever, looked back.
Shhhh, no, you just started young.I must be much older, alas, because my favourites were:
DOS+Staroffice
Win 3.1
Win 98
Win XP
Then Red Hat, Mandrake/Mandriva, Mepis, Kubuntu. Never, ever, looked back.
Shhhh, no, you just started young.