Jim SalterMay 28

This is what it looks like when Gnome3 (under Ubuntu 26.04) shits the bed and unlocks the secondary display while leaving the primary display locked.

Yes, really. No, power cycling the display didn't change anything. And I had to invoke Firefox from the CLI after using ctrl-alt-T to spawn a new terminal, so I could look up the command to log off the desktop from the terminal, BECAUSE THE PRIMARY DISPLAY IS WHERE THE MENUS LIVE.

The command is gnome-session-quit, btw.

Show threadJason Tubnor 🇦🇺May 28
@jimsalter Did any testing of 26.04 happen before release? Seems they just chucked this one over the wall to hit the release date. Do they even care about the desktop anymore?
Show threadJim SalterMay 28

@tubsta I've felt increasingly that way about Ubuntu for about a decade now.

When I first got my start with it, even the interim ephemeral releases were rock solid. Then somewhere around 2013 or so, the ephemerals started to be garbage, but the LTSes were still rock solid.

These days... "it's better than Windows" is about all I can give it, and that's DAMN faint praise considering where we came from in the first place.

Show threadTomMay 28
@jimsalter @tubsta 14.04 was the last really decent Ubuntu release. Pre systemd. Rock solid.
Show threadJason Tubnor 🇦🇺May 29
@pertho @jimsalter I wonder how good it would have been if they stuck with upstart?
Show threadTom
@tubsta @jimsalter Upstart had its issues too, but at least it didn't have delusions of grandeur of taking over the entire system like systemd.
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Show threadJason Tubnor 🇦🇺May 29
@pertho @jimsalter My thoughts exactly. The dream was @SMF from Solaris, instead we get #SystemSHIT #SystemD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Management_Facility
Service Management Facility - Wikipedia

Show threadoxy ::openbsd:: ::freebsd:: ::runbsd:: May 29
@tubsta @pertho @jimsalter Imagine - Linux with ZFS, Dtrace, SMF and Zones 🤤 ::illumos::
Show threadJason Tubnor 🇦🇺May 29
@oxy @pertho @jimsalter Imagine what the owner of all that code could do to their version of Linux? RHEL would no longer be a thing
Show threadoxy ::openbsd:: ::freebsd:: ::runbsd:: May 29
@tubsta @pertho @jimsalter Or … we could just ignore all that, release a red hat clone and give it a catchy title like “Unbreakable”.

*I assume the unbreakable refers to the terms in the support agreement