Why Ubuntu sucks a lot of the time

Just one of the many annoyances…

WHY?

Some update broke thumbnails in Files (Nautilus) on 24.04 Gnome… It’s a known issue :

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1sij087/after_todays_update_to_2404_lts_thumbnails_no/

Some security bullshit bollocks blocks thumbnails! Why?

╭─x@titanii ~/r-Music/KingGizzardAndTheLizardWizard  
╰─➤  sudo sysctl -w kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns=0
kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns = 0
╭─x@titanii ~/r-Music/KingGizzardAndTheLizardWizard  
╰─➤  rm -rf ~/.cache/thumbnails/fail/*
zsh: sure you want to delete the only file in /home/x/.cache/thumbnails/fail [yn]? y

Above two commands - per the reddit post - fixed it… And this is supposedly / allegedly a more “n00b” oriented distro…

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Well it is only as good as the distro maintenance team allow.
Real noob-friendly distros come from thoughtful maintainers.

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Yeah - probably…

Saw a job in my town looking for a Ubuntu guru - but alongside the specs I could mostly match was this proviso :

must have previously rolled out Ubuntu using Landscape…

Interesting - I’ve looked at it (Canonical Landscape) and done a bit of playing with it (6-7+ years ago) - but - “never used it in anger” so I could never claim to know what it’s like to use at the “coal face”…

I’ve mentioned before - one of my favourite jobs (nearly 20 years ago) was providing LINUX desktop support to geologists running RHEL 4 with beefy 64 bit PCs (dual Opteron, and dual NVidia Quadro and bucket loads of RAM - some of them had 32 GB - that was a lot of RAM in 2007!) - I miss that… It was so cool - but the main boss hated me - and I only attribute that to the fact that I rode a Harley - I owned two at the time + a Suzuki GSXR1100) and he was a diehard “honda man” (cheesy ad from the 1960’s: “You meet the nicest people on a Honda”…)…

I’ve had 4 Yamahas, 1 Kawasaki, 1 Suzuki, and 3 x Harley - worst motorcycle I ever owned was a Honda… bucket of c@rp… The Suzuki was after the 4 Yamahas - if I was going to go back to Jappas - it would be Suzuki - much better engineered and parts cheaper and more “universal”… One of my Yammys - needed piston rings - that was 1992/3 - Yamaha wanted $1000 AUD for head gasket and rings… f–k that! For a $1500 motorcycle???

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I swapped my Harley for a Honda monkey lots of fun never fast but at my age I no longer care

I worked at a college at one stage and needed to see a client to run computer courses for them. My boss said you cannot go on a motorbike imagine the reaction. The client was happy with my pitch and booked a who series of courses plus took students from or college he even came out to discuss my little Suzuki. Another fun bike.

Is that paid stuff?
I cant extract any useful info from their website.

I think I have had at least 6… 4 of them Hondas including the current 2 farm bikes.
Honda motors are fine … best mower I ever owned. Small motors are another world … Honda beat Briggs and Stratton .

I had one of those Suzuki 2 stroke 4WD’s once. It was a really nicely built vehicle.

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I always thought Landscape was a paid product, but I think they changed that a few years ago. I have a few computers running Ubuntu at home and I think I have them all on the free Ubuntu Pro. You can have up to five for free.

Copilot says:
Landscape is open source and can be self‑hosted, but managing production fleets—commercial or not—effectively requires Ubuntu Pro; you’re paying for entitlement and updates, not for permission to use it commercially.

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Pretty sure you can use it without paying - how else would one learn how to use it?


Another Ubuntu thing I kinda hate :

I recently tried 26.04 (final release) as a VM in virt-manager - the default terminal is no longer Gnome Terminal - it’s something else… There’s NO configuration option to make it transparent - i.e. you can’t even make it “slightly opaque”… It feels really “dumbed down” and “locked down”…

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Regarding the thumbnail issue, I found the suggestion to delete the thumbnail cache

rm -r ~/.cache/thumbnails/*

Nautilus regenerates thumbnails automatically. This cleared up the issue on my computers.

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In Xfce that is done by the compositor.
Does Gnome not have a compositor, or perhaps is it not installed in Ubuntu?

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I did a little searching and it said you could do that using dconf.

I have always done the opposite and make it a solid black. Easier for me to read.

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I make the active window solid black, and the others opaque.

Now I see a kind of relation because just since few days ago in the “dock” the remmina’s icon appears now as the classic “engine” icon