I was reading the newsletter from Linux Handbook and saw Ubuntu 23.04 was released. I had forgotten it was getting close to the date. So I went to https://ubuntu.com and it only partially loaded and then gave an error. Same after a refresh. A minute or two later I tried with Firefox rather than Edge and it loaded normally.
I wonder if they had a spike it usage due to the release of 23.04?
Maybe not. I went back and tried both Edge and Firefox again and still get an error with Edge, but not with Firefox. Hmmm.
I wasnāt trying to download the ISO at this point. Itās the homepage that fails to load in Edge. Iāve been using Edge as default for months now and the Ubuntu homepage has always loaded for me in the past.
I disabled uBlock Origin and Disconnect extensions. Still will not load. Very odd.
I donāt have Chromium installed, but maybe Iāll try that and see what happens.
Update. I tried Chromium and the Ubuntu homepage is fine. I installed Edge Dev and it also works fine there. It is just a problem on Edge Version 112.0.1722.54 (Official build) (64-bit) on Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS with all updates applied.
No issues here from downunder, despite my ISP providing yoyo internet servers most of yesterday (coincidentally about 15 minutes after the solar eclipse)ā¦
Touch wood (does chipboard count?) - itās okay today - itās been mirrored to aarnet so Iām grabbing a copy now⦠Iāll probably stick with Pop!_OS on my main systems for the time being - but I might plonk 23.04 alongside Windows 10 on my Dell 7270 (which I barely ever use)ā¦
And everythingās a shitload easier now Iām using Ventoyā¦
Speaking of Ventoy, I just got a Samsung 128GB USB3.1 FIT stick (it promises 400 MB/second), and I installed Ventoy on it so now I can very easily try out live versions of new releases at neat to bare metal performance speeds (all I have to do is copy the .iso image file to the Ventoy drive). Iāll have to get the new Ubuntu release and give it a try.
I tested Ventoy on an old USB2 drive and I liked how well it works (even with Secure Boot enabled), so when I saw the 128 GB Samsung drive for about $30.00 (US), I decided to get it so I could use it that way too for the better performance. Iāve tested it out with Fedora-Cinnamon 38 and ZorinOS 16.1 so far, ant they both work very much as if they have already been installed. As far as Iām concerned, my new Samsung drive has been well worth the price )
It looks as if they are coming down in price (for now). I just looked at my Amazon order, and my total bill was $19.38 (US). I am a Prime member (for now). Since these can serve a variety of purposes, and they are available in three sizes (from 64 GB to 256 GB), you may want one for Ventoy and at least another to expand storage capacity on a laptop. Such versatility, and at such reasonable prices!
Interestingly, based on the currently advertised pricing (from the image above), cost per GB goes up with capacity (64GB costs about $5.82/GB, 128GB costs about $7.115/GB, and 256GB costs about $8.26/GB). All prices are in US dollars. To get these numbers, I divided capacity by cost.
While weāre still talking about Ventoy - despite my singing itās praises earlier - I tried THREE times to get Ubuntu 23.04 live boot to ābootā - NO GO! Via Ventoyā¦
Zorin 16 booted first time, off the same Ventoy stick⦠when I can be arsed, Iām going to burn a Ubuntu 23.04 stick and see if it boots⦠Dell Latitute 7270, 8 GB DDR4, 512 GB SSD (M2?).
Half the disk is allocated to Windows 10, which I never use, but itās there if I even need Win10 for somethingā¦
definitely some issue with Ubuntu and Ventoy not playing well together⦠Just shows the post grub boot splash ad nauseam (literally for hours) - whether I use any of the three different options from Ventoyā¦
Dedicated Ubuntu stick boots straight into Ubuntu, same hardware, with a stock Ubuntu 23.04 boot stick (prepared with dd)ā¦
Oops! I got the math backwards. Thatās not like me. I guess Iām getting old (or maybe I rushed my post too much) Thank you for noticing my error, and correcting me!
Finally got it booting and installing (23.04) in dual boot with Windows 10 on a Dell Latitude 7270ā¦
Confirmed - save / open dialog boxes now let you pick icon view and it can display thumbnails - I canāt believe they pulled this feature for a whole bunch of Gnome 3.3x and 4.x releases! Why? Was it too hard?
Donāt know how long we gotta wait (if ever) to see this feature in Pop!_OSā¦
This page :
seems to infer this is possible, and a feature, of Pop!_OSā¦
So - if/when System76 do a Pop!_OS 23.04 or 23.10 or even a 24.04 - Iāll be jumpingā¦
It wasnāt even downloads. It was the home page. It started to load and showed some of the background and the āaccept cookiesā button. But then it would just stop. Even when I would use Firefox to navigate to the Ubuntu blog and then copy and paste that URL into Edge (avoiding the home page), it would still lock up.
I tried clearing cache, safe mode, no extensions, rebooting, etc. It just wouldnāt work.
So I downloaded a DEV version of Edge. Main was 112 and DEV was 114. The 114 version worked when the 112 version didnāt with all the same extensions.
It has worked for years for Ubuntu.com, but just quit a day or two before my first post. Yesterday a newer version of main was released (113) and now Ubuntu.com loads normally again.