OK, I am confusing a developing architecture concept with an actual working chip.
O when they say Debian supports risc-v, they mean they give thumbs up to the concept, not that they have anything that will function.
You mean, not our world then. Nothing is ideal. But I find if I go with the flow and just use Ubuntu, it’s pretty painless.
Of course. Canonical are trying hard to win support. Users like you ,who are prepared to move and stay up to date , are not the problem. Users who want a frozen world will eventually be disappointed by some decision.
It is better to take your pain in small doses by accepting regular updates. Rolling release does that.
That can happen, but Ubuntu has a very long support window. At least as far as security updates go.
5 years of standard security updates
10 years total with an Ubuntu Pro subscription
Optionally, 12 years with Legacy Support added to Ubuntu Pro
I suppose they ( security updates) are important, but most people seem to suffer from dying apps and deprecated file formats. That is not really Ubuntu’s responsibility.
Here’s a minor annoyance in Ubuntu 24.04 - I don’t know if it’s Ubuntu specific, or Gnome 46…
When I do something like in Nautilus / Files, right click “Open in Terminal” - this stupid annoying popup notification “pops up” - WHY? What good is it?
And it takes the focus - instead of bringing my newly launched terminal to the front / forground / focus!
This happens on x86_64 (my Ryzen desktop) and arm64 (my RPi5)…
I stopped it on my desktop by disabling notifications at the top (Do Not Disturb)… But what is the point of this dumb thing? So what? I KNOW I launched a new terminal window, why does it think I need to be notified?
Sure it’s a trivial annoyance… it’s not a show stopper… But boy does it trigger mild anger 
That would annoy me intensely.
Android overdoes notification. We do not want go see Linux copying Android in that respect.
Perhaps it’s just GNOME or Ubuntu.
" GNOME applications should use notifications to inform the user that something has happened that requires their attention.
Notifications should not be intrusive, or distracting."
from the Gnome Developer Documentation
Hmm. I don’t do that but just tried it and did not get any notification. Maybe notifications settings are different for me. I don’t recall changing anything.
For me it’s just easier to have “Do Not Disturb” on all the time…
I don’t need reminders for anything anyway! I don’t have my gmail calendar integrated with my Ubuntu install… My phone does all the remindering I need…
I was tempted to say your need a wife ! But in réalité I have a paper diary which I use.
Have one of those already - 41 years last week on Monday
And she relies on me to remember people’s birthdays!
Is that less for murder?
The old jokes just keep coming….
If I’d done her in say 2 years into it - I’d probably have been out living a new life 20 years ago …
Reckon I’d have got a 20 years sentence and been out with good behaviour (who am I kidding ) by 18 years
Uncanny - I didn’t enable “Do Not Disturb” on this Thinkpad running Ubuntu 24.04 and got a pop up about this thread and your reply @callpaul.eu
Too true and well said. It reminds me of the early days of M$ V*sta when there was joking talk that it was a conspiracy to drive everybody MAD.
Seriously, though, actors on the technical side of this scene, as well as we commentators and those running “social” internet media, must keep aware of the risks of unintentionally generating stress, anxiety and worse.
I hope our forum is not a culprit there.
That was the first thing I thought of. The textbook example of over notification. It was introduced for a pretty good reason, but somehow it worked against their goal.
I was thinking of the sand-glass timer that someone said should have been replaced by a calendar.
There is one type of notification that really irritates me… that is error messages in a notify window. Quite often these are formatted in some way that prevents copy/pasting the message … so if I want to google it I have to hand type the message.
Can we please have error messages on STDERR.