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https://blog.neon.kde.org/2024/10/10/kd ... 24-04-lts/

Due to how much I customize Neon, the first laptop I tried to upgrade failed MISERABLY....however I do use separate /home partition, so I was able to reinstall and lose nearly nothing.

0/2 on upgrades. The 445 G11 failed even harder than the T14s G3 to upgrade. But again, separate /home drive means I was back up and running in no time with all my preferences still there. Just had to reset a few global options.

What seems to be the failure? is it pulling in unwanted software or crashing?

Because I uninstall plasma-discover, it's designed to be done through that. So I'm doing the standard do-release-upgrade from a terminal, but that doesn't update the Neon repos, so all kinds of incompatible versions suddenly exist. And never occurred to me to just try reinstalling discover, do the upgrade, and then re-uninstall discover. I may not always be the brightest bulb in the box.

I have not looked at Neon in sometime, actually I have not really looked at anything KDE in a while. The 24.04 rebase is pretty nice. I gave it a spin on a 2010 MBP which is a first gen dual core i7 with 8GB of RAM and it booted and ran without a hitch. It was pretty snappy and even just running of the USB it used very few resources. I am going to contemplate installing it to a hard drive.

I keep sticking with Endless OS where I really enjoy the zero maintenance of Endless. But its OSTree build does limit customization and software installation to only FlatPaks. Perhaps I will get more adventurous as winter approaches and I am stuck inside.

wove wrote: ↑Sat Oct 12, 2024 11:19 pm I keep sticking with Endless OS where I really enjoy the zero maintenance of Endless. But its OSTree build does limit customization and software installation to only FlatPaks. Perhaps I will get more adventurous as winter approaches and I am stuck inside.

Yeah, I keep wanting to see an immutable distro that has defaults that I can tolerate, but so far they all contain too much that I don't want installed, so keep avoiding the immutables.

So many Linux distros remind me of computers from the 90s and the endless piles of software that came installed. Not that the software was bad or useless, but if you did not have use for it all it did was clutter up the system. I personally have no use for an office suite and I would hate to even guess how often I have deleted them. It is doubly infuriating that not only do they eat up bandwidth on the initial iso download, but it seems they always have a huge update to download and install before I get around to deleting them.

A family member dropped off a little Acer laptop with my wife asking if I could make it run "faster". It is running windows 11 home edition off a 64GB emmc. They have installed Macafee and Norton stuff along with the Windows defender stuff, plus MS Office and Chrome, and Brave. The storage indicated the drive has 56MB of free space. I am amazed it even runs. Generally speaking you cannot do anything with it, I assume because there is no space for a swap.

Yup, the only way to make 64GB storage work with modern Windows is to install oone of the "Windows lite" versions that people have developed. Otherwise even WITHOUT a lot installed, from system restore points it makes and monthly updates, the first time it gets to trying to install a feature release, it'll fail with insufficient disk space.