Back when I was in college, I had a bizarre fixation on making my Ubuntu install look as much like Windows XP (and later Vista) as possible. For the Vista attempt, I even went as far as making a custom Compiz reflection image so that I could get the proper Aero shine on my translucent, Gaussian-blurred windows.

I ended up getting close enough that my one friend thought I’d finally gone mad and installed Vista, so I called it a win and moved onto trying to make something more unique…which ended up looking at lot like Windows 8/10 before they were a thing.

I always forget that find is that flexible. Thanks.

I think I’m just going to keep an eye on it and see if it happens again, since this is the first time it’s ever shut itself down unprompted like this. My cat has also figured out where the power button is and likes to press it occasionally, so unless it happens again I’m just going to chalk it up to that. Might replace the PSU just for good measure, since it’s getting kinda old and was made by EVGA, about whose reliability I’m entirely ignorant.

There’s few things more satisfying than having the “IT guy” say “oh it must be a Linux problem” only for them to have to eat crow within 24 hours.

FreeIPA does a passable job at replacing AD for the absolute most basic functions. I used to use it for sudo rules and user management at one of my previous jobs, even though it wasn’t a Linux shop.

There’s also R2ModMan that supports Valheim and a bunch of other games.

It’s possible to do two things with one’s life.

Do you use Discord, by any chance? I remember having this problem when I had audio ducking enabled.

I vaguely remember kbin allowing you to see who upvoted a particular post, so it might not be too difficult.

Yeah I ended up giving up. I might try it again if I ever switch back to Fedora, but that’s probably not going to happen for a while.

Man, this makes me wish I could get EWW to compile on Debian. No idea what the hangup was, but I just remember being unable to get it to run.

Shit, I might be autism.

I would avoid Ubuntu myself, but as others have said it’s not going to be any different from using Debian for the same job. Just install the samba package, add a user, configure your shares, and you’re good to go.

Reasonable, I was just wondering.

Is there a reason you went for Kinoite and didn’t just go for Core instead?

))<>((

So you’re saying the data is a bunch of shit?

When I first started using Linux, I was told that if I had a problem, I shouldn’t give a well-reasoned, well-documented description of what’s wrong and what steps I’ve tried, because everyone will ignore it. Instead, I was told to say that Linux sucks because I’m having this problem and I’d get 3.8 million angry fixes within 10 minutes.

Firebird Suite? More like FIREbird…oh.