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It did seem fast. Ubuntu 24.04. But then I'm on a relatively new computer with an ssd so it's hard to tell.

The installation was smooth. I like the installer.

I had a problem with the...

The drag and drop doesn't work for me. The Starred folder is greyed out and won't complete the drag and drop. I have to right click on the document and select "Star".

I run Ubuntu 22.04. I can move documents and folders from the Documents section of the Files app to the desktop by the usual drag and drop. I believe this is possible because Ubuntu automatically...

I happen to have an Ubuntu 24.04 live usb. Its files app (I assume still Nautilus) was able to open another usb (formatted FAT32) as usual.

Duplicity keeps some files in .cache in the duplicity folder. Namely the manifest and signature files. When I want to start over in Duplicity I delete the appropriate sub-folder. Deja Dup also...

I assumed so. As I'm sure you know Deja Dup (Duplicity) can't just make incremental backups for forever. It has to do a second full backup at some point. But it won't have enough space. I'm just...

Any chance that Deja Dup is going to make a second full backup (used to be in three months time) and it wants room to do that?

Looks like they solved it with a swap file.

https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=158889

Correct me if I'm wrong but stock Thunderbird is still a deb package on Ubuntu. Here it is on my system where I have not installed it myself.



$ apt policy thunderbird
thunderbird:
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My understanding is that Debian does support no root account and the first user given root privileges via sudo like Ubuntu. You just don't choose a root password in the network installer. Your...

I believe Debian still supports 32-bit hardware. It's easier to install than it used to be since they included the non-free firmware in the installer. But it seems you have to use the traditional...

So I found something which although simplistic makes me feel better. I was looking for something in the cve priorities which would match up with Alex Murray's statement in the second post about...

It's not too difficult. I just don't care to do it. But thanks.

So I decided to try out the Firefox add-on NoScript. The ads didn't work on one site I frequent and I got a blank page on another site. I realize I could make adjustments to get these to work like...

So apparently cross site scripting has various levels of severity.


https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/xss/

and

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So to recap, browsers are insecure, Google steals information, and use Firejail. To be honest I'm not too worried about Google. And snaps have a built in sandbox. I haven't been ambitious enough...

I had forgotten about Chrome. That would certainly solve the problem of sometimes slow updates. I've become somewhat of a purist on Linux trying to stick with only the distribution. But a...

Oh well, I don't really distrust Canonical. I was just enjoying figuring these things out. But I guess this is beyond my abilities. I'm sure Canonical is taking care of me. :)

But then again,...

Since there doesn't seem to be any headway on this I'll add my experience from Debian 12 using the Backports kernel.

A year and half ago I got a new computer. Sometimes the rear port would not...

Ok, thanks. :)

What does it mean "to follow Arch"? I did a quick Google search but didn't come up with anything.

I installed Arch a couple of times for kicks. Just to see if I could.

The freezing seems to be fixed now. I suspect it was because I had installed Firefox from the binaries downloaded from Mozilla. It had only happened when Firefox was open. Also I was using my...

Still, even though cross site scripting may be a "smaller effect" from a technical standpoint if someone gets your banking information that's real world serious.

I suppose I'm trying to be too granular for the scope of this forum. Probably it's generally covered in the following quote by Alex Murray.


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Hi everybody. Full disclosure, I'm currently on Debian. One reason is my one remaining concern about Ubuntu and security. (I've generally resolved my other concerns.)

I'm kind of looking for...