Ubuntu 24.04

[Hasturtium]

Ahoy! Finally had time to sit down and move off of Fedora, and the experience was mostly painless. Ubuntu Server installed without much fuss, but after installing Xorg and Xfce’s dependencies and rebooting the kernel barfed a bunch of error messages about failing to initialize my Radeon W6600. This was remedied by pulling down a newer kernel - some branch of 6.11 IIRC - and then manually pointing X11 to the Radeon instead of the AST2500. Once that was done I found the default web browser crashes at startup with a pointedly unspecific I/O error, so I grabbed a second machine to look up the Firefox PPA, where the latest ESR could be added. This appears to be built without ClassicHasClass’s baseline JIT; if somebody out there has a repo I can use to that end I’d be grateful. There’s still some tire kicking to do - I haven’t installed OpenCL yet and may need to manually compile Deadbeef, but overall I’m pleased.

[MauryG5]

Hi, I'm also using Ubuntu a bit but in the LTS version so the latest LTS version. I had version 20 and I updated to the latest LTS version and just after updating I saw that Firefox had removed it. They do it because they push you to use Snap packages but I still preferred to use the .deb version and so I installed that. I saw with my surprise that they finally solved the Firefox problems on Ubuntu, related to saving favorites and similar things that have plagued it for I don't know how many years. I have to say that it works quite well, no problem for my Radeon 5700XT as it is older and more stable. The only thing that I really regret is that it is missing is a version of Chromium to be truly complete. Too bad because I tried to install it and it doesn't let you install it, I tried to do it from the wiki guide but nothing, that guide is no longer good and among other things I also tried to ask on GitHub but even there I didn't get any answer unfortunately... A real shame because if it could be installed it would be perfect...